There is some good info on ID cards, what they are, which countries use them, the negatives of ID cards etc, here:

http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/idcard_faq.html

Not saying you shouldn't sign a petition or anything but it's probably going to get voted though anyway, don't you think?

The ID cards

My name is Costel , I'm from Manchester and this is a nice forum
go reds 

OK this is serious shit - i will watch the videos again

Yea i think they violate our rights

Ok the Mifare Classic cards are pretty old (10 yearsish) but they are still in wide circulation and used in many countries around the world. Rumours that the Chinese had already reverse engineered and were producing blank cards were probably true as if these few some clever students can take quite literately taken the chip apart, I am sure other people can aswell.

The 10th March 2008 paper about the flaws in Mifare's crypto1 encryption

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~kn5f/Mifare.Cryptanalysis.htm


The January 2008 video below is from ccc.de explaining how some students reverse engineered the chip

<a href="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=4252367680974396650" target="_blank">http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=4252367680974396650</a>

On the back of the paper being released Bruce Schneier along with many other news sources are reporting free London travel via hacked Oyster Cards and similar stories in other countries.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/london_tube_sma.html

Attacks in action
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/NW3RGbQTLhE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/NW3RGbQTLhE&rel=1</a>

Breaking into Mifare-protected key vault
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Srzf2MSCO6Y&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Srzf2MSCO6Y&rel=1</a>

Further reading
A separate group has found another flaw in the protocol and reduced the time taken to break the encrytpion
http://www.ru.nl/ds/research/rfid/

ComputerWorld.com article on How they broke it

RFID-Hack Hits 1 Billion Digital Access Cards Worldwide

Note that there are already Mifare 3DES cards available called DESFire and that also announced on the 10th of March that in Q4 2008 there will be 128bit AES cards available. The problem I see is by the time 128bit keys get into mass market who knows if flaws in AES won't have been found and broken?

For the UK you can contact your local member of parliament (Find Your Local MP for the UK) and make your objections and hope that they understand why you are against ID and why they should say no in any upcoming votes. You can also sign UK petitions which are given to the prime minster.

Not sure how your government works in the US, contact your states governor?

 

names nicholas and cool to see this new forum.

i will be linking to this forum latter on. cheers.

Cool video. I've never seen that done before. How do they design machines like that? I wouldn't know where to begin