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Bancroft Break-In: Are We Ready for Prime Time?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/23/BUG5D37C7T1.DTL
A computer break-in at Bancroft Library (UCB) highlights one of my concerns about RFID: many library servers aren’t secure to begin with–and that, hand in hand with a potent technology such as RFID (full disclosure: I don’t have any indication Bancroft plans to implement RFID), could lead to compromised user privacy. You can read more about this in testimony I submitted last week to a congressional hearing (also attended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation). (I would have been there myself, but a server crashed and took me with it.)

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This was written by K.G. Schneider. Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 10:40 am. Filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.