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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless

Lukas Grunwald — last seen cloning Germany’s RFID passports — is back with more “white hat” hackery on the worlds’ new e-passport systems. This time, however, he’s crashing RFID readers to demonstrate how a hacked passport could conceivably force approval of expired or forged passports. After all, “If you’re able to crash something you are most likely able to exploit it,” says Grunwald. Lukas was able to crash two passport readers made by different vendors by first cloning a passport’s chip and then modding the JPEG2000 image file stored within the chip to create a buffer-overun condition — the same vulnerabilities which make so many devices (the original Xbox, anyone?) so easily exploitable. Lukas contends that all airport readers are likely vulnerable to such an exploit as they would be using off-the-shelf libraries for decoding JPEG images. Lukas will be demonstrating his latest hack this weekend at DefCon in Vegas. Hmmm, with CES moving to RFID badges this year, we have a funny feeling that attendance is going to be way up.

[Via BoingBoing]

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Pure and simple

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Not to be outdone by Panasonic‘s flurry, Canon just announced their iVIS HG10 camcorder set to roll in September. Unlike their first AVCHD recorder (the HR10) the HG10 records 1,920 x 1,080 video to a 40GB disk drive instead of a DVD platter. While the HG10 does bump recordings to 15Mbps at maximum setting (compared to the HR10’s 12Mbps), the two camcorders are pretty much feature-for-feature identical right on down to the ¥140,000 (about $1,188) price tag. Fortunately, the good folks at Impress do a good side-by-side comparison with Sony’s disk-based HDR-SR7/SR8 jobbies if the decision process is causing you too much grief.

[Via Impress]

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Transportation

While there’s plenty of options for in-car accident recorders, how’s about a device to help prevent one type of collision in the first place? Sanyo‘s latest rear-view backup camera system “digitally creates visual guidelines (including vehicle width and distance indicators at two, four, and eight feet) that appear on your car’s monitor,” which ought to help you from backing that bus of yours over any stray shrubbery or misplaced youngsters. Additionally, the CCA-BC200 provides a trio of modes to view the surroundings behind you, which could come in handy if you’re riding sans a helper in the passenger’s seat. Granted, you’ll still be forced to fork over $299.99 for this luxury in addition to picking up an LCD of your choice to view it on, but if your driveway is often covered with more toys than cleared cement, it may be worth the investment.

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