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by BrandoElFollito 1436 days ago
> RFID badge that any kid in the subway standing next to you can clone with his phone

Please do not spread FUD. Except for antique technologies. (MCF-1, ...) you can't clone RFID devices.

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It isn't FUD if it is still true for a majority of deployments, even new ones.

One popular example: EV chargers still rely on easily cloneable Mifare Classic for access and billing and are only very slowly changing over to more secure alternatives. And in case it isn't obvious: Mifare Classic security problems were literally more than a decade old knowledge when EV chargers started to be deployed.

https://community.nxp.com/t5/NFC/good-alternative-for-EV-cha...

It isn't FUD if reality is that bad...

Many "security" tokens are just... tokens. Literally an ID that is writable and readable to any close device.

If you think its antique... like, its still widely in use today, i think you are wrong.

Access company Kisi's blog post from 2018 on hacking 125Khz and 13.56Mhz cards: https://www.getkisi.com/blog/how-to-copy-access-cards-and-ke...

Hardware device that copies many keys including encrypted: https://icopyx.com/