http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/blog A blog from a living laboratory for research in user-centered RFID systems Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:39:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's talks covered a variety of topics, from effective and efficient strategies for managing RFID data in the supply chain, to a framework for security in interoperable RFID networks, to probabilistic RFID data cleaning and even RFID in mobile E-commerce. One interesting talk on "Interoperable Internet Scale Security ... http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/blog/2008/04/07/talks-from-rfdm-08/ The first annual International Workshop on RFID Data Management (RFDM'08) is happening in Cancun today in conjunction with the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners that work on problems related to managing data produced by RFID or other traceability ... http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/blog/2008/04/07/rfdm-2008-workshop-today-in-cancun-mexico/ Karsten Nohl spoke today at Prof. Yoshi Kohno's weekly UW Security group lunch. The topic of the talk was "The (Im)possibility of Hardware Obfuscation". In the talk, Karsten described the impracticality of hardware obfuscation techniques with a focus on the recent OV-chipkaart hack in which ... http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/blog/2008/03/31/karsten-nohl-speaks-on-rfid-security-at-uw-security-lunch/ Prof. Magdalena Balazinska testified at a public hearing today in the Washington State House Committee on Technology, Energy & Communications. The hearing was on House Bill 2729, which addresses “the reading and handling of certain identification documents” and is sponsored by Rep. Deborah Eddy among others. This is an ... http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/blog/2008/01/30/expert-testimony-from-prof-balazinska-on-privacy-risks-of-the-edl/ I was fortunate to participate in the RFID CUSP workshop at Johns Hopkins University last week. The goal of the workshop was to bring together a broad cross-section of the RFID community in an effort to shape research agendas in service of pressing, real-world problems. About half the speakers ... http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/blog/2008/01/27/rfid-security-from-theory-to-practice/