Austin J. DeLaCruz INFS 3370 Dr. Anand S. Kunnathur Communications and Security Issues with RFID As you are well aware by now the world has become increasingly technology oriented. Every day we use technology in one way or another. Whether it be simply checking email or being able to turn our entire house on from the simple push of a button on our smart phone. Whether we like it or not, technology is there. One piece of technology that seems to be gaining attention and garnering more research is Radio Frequency Identification or RFID. Radio Frequency Identification is a form of wireless media where messaging and data are broadcast through the air. It is radio transmission that uses an RFID tag, RFID reader, and back-end system in order to communicate back and forth and requires no line of sight. As simple as it may sound, this technology has its fair share of complications and the security issues that have presented themselves are at the forefront of this expanding technology. As mentioned above the RFID system has three major components; the tag, the reader, and the back-end system. There are two types of RFID tags: active and passive. Active tags have a battery power source and therefore have a finite life. These tags are writable and readable. Passive tags on the other hand, are fairly simple. When they are in the proximity of a RFID reader, the tag begins to transmit data that it has stored in its memory. The radio transmission from the reader provides the power needed for the tag to function. (Paraschiv pg 10) The reader is composed of a frequency module, a control unit, and a control unit which helps it communicate with the tag through radio transmission. Readers can take various forms from mobile or portable d... ... middle of paper ... ...e. (Chin-Feng Journal pg 2) The debate on whether the increasing implementation of RFID is constantly going back and forth. As the technology has found its way into licenses and passports. The continuing theme of this, is that the RFID in various forms of identification will allow certain authorized individuals the ability to access information on a specific person and have resources such a criminal record, known aliases, or any other information that might protect against a security threat. Although the basic belief is that only having simple basic information stored on RFID tags is harmless, the truth is that even the most simplest of data can eventually become important. Tadayoshi Kohno thinks the security of information should be taken seriously, “Information and uses evolve over time and these things can reveal more than we initially expect.” (Naone, pg 73)
The placement of implantable chips into patients for the purpose of accurately identifying patients and properly storing their medical history records has become a subject of a strong debate. Making sure patients are properly identified before a procedure and storing their health history records for future use has been difficult, if not impossible. The idea of being able to retrieve accurate patient’s medical history for a follow up care without relying on patient’s memory is a challenging task for many healthcare organizations. Many ideas and technologies have been introduced over the years to help solve this problem, but unfortunately the problem is still not fully resolved. There are still many errors in the healthcare due in part by improper record keeping and inaccurate patient identification. One idea that has being in discussion to eliminate these problems for good, is the introduction of a chip or radio frequency identification (RFID) technology implanted into human for the purpose storing medical data and accurately identify patients. VeriChip Corporation is currently the maker of this implantable RFID chip. They are the only corporation cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make this implantable radio frequency transponder system for humans for the purpose of identifying patients and storing their health history information. The chip was first developed for the use of radar systems by Scottish physicist, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt in 1935 just before World War II. (Roberti, 2007). This technology helps identify approaching planes of the enemy from mile away. Today, RFID has several uses. It is used for animal tracking. It is attached to merchandise in stores to prevent theft. It can be instal...
Technological advancements have positively impacted society by increasing safety, promoting global communication, and presenting easy access to knowledge. However, there are many negative impacts to these devices, including the manipulation of privacy.
Electronic progress has been miraculous, even exciting, but with it problems evolve. One of the greatest is the threat to people's personal privacy. The Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) was developed in the 1980's to give people an easier way to de posit and withdraw cash that they had in the bank. Everyone who has an account is assigned a secret PIN number, but someone in the bank has access to clients' financial records in the electronic database. Another type of new technology is the ele ctronic tolls used on the nation's highways. Drivers can pay tolls...
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We are living in world that is growing in technology. Technology is evolving so rapidly, especially in ways that allow us to store personal information. For example, we can look up a purchase with no receipt at a retail store with a swipe of a credit card. Another example, we could go to the doctor and the nurse can print out a copy of all our health records that are stored in the computer by just typing in our full name. Although this may be a way to make things easier for us, it is also a way for people to take our information without permission and do what they please with it. People can hack into the database of retail stores and steal account numbers and people can just say your name and get your health history if the nurse does not ask for a form of identification. Information privacy is a growing concern for Internet and data users. In a report Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public, researched by Helen Nissenbaum of Princeton University, she states:
While the idea of human tracking has its share of benefits, there certainly are numerous pitfalls that also exist. While the ability to identify someone with an ID tag may have practical uses, the security and privacy issues could seem potentially alarming to some. Not only that, a closer look may show that the technology doesn’t necessarily offer very many advantages when considering the costs of nation-wide adoption of the technology. This paper will try to investigate into these issues, whilst attempt to come up with some solutions.
Technology has made life so easy in this present generation to the extent that, we can do virtually almost with it. We can now use technology to protect our privacy and our identity from been stolen. People use passwords, biometrics and other forms of security measures to hide their possessions which include their identity, privacy and valuable properties. While technology has a great advantage when it comes to securing one’s privacy and identity, one of its disadvantages is that privacy identity thieves can still find a way to use technology to intrude people’s privacy and steal their identity.
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There are two main types of RFID tags: active and passive. The difference between these two types lies within how and when they transmit their stored information. An active RFID tag is connected to a power source, ge...
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