Mythbusters were going to do an episode which highlighted the immense security flaws in most credit cards. But Discovery was threatened by - and eventually gave into - immense legal pressure from the major credit card companies to not air the episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-St_ltH90Oc&ab_channel=mediarchives
Original tweet : https://nitter.privacydev.net/tilbots/status/1611482570381840389
I still remember that revelation . It was an astonishing moment back on the 18th floor of the now razed Hotel Pennsylvania.
@Aphrodite @todayilearned Somebody totally needs to do a show on the subject and self host it and get more views than youtube can give, and totally get sued to hell and back, and take one for the team.
@Aphrodite @todayilearned Disregard that, I guess there's shitloads of web sites that describe it now, but I wish they'd do something to destroy the credit card industry as a whole.
@todayilearned is it still a practice in the US to just “swipe” a card? And can you still pay on the internet with a card without any kind of second authentication?
@cryptomer
על מה מדובר? איזו חולשה יש ב rfid של כרטיסי האשראי?
This one's a beauty (but long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axiYo61XRRw
@todayilearned
Didn't realize how old the video was at first.
But yeah, EMV cards have sooo many bugs, I still find out some randomly.
Though the most entertaing to reproduce was probably the preplay attack by downgrading Mastercard to kernel 2 (and it had only 1000 "unpredictable" numbers) around 2014.
Latest entertaining was I think the PIN bypass on Visa, which was then also present on Mastercard because they emulated their code.
I still have to build this antenna in TODO, it would be lot of fun: https://www.cs.ru.nl/~erikpoll/papers/rfidgate.pdf
