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Hacking Escalates

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

This morning it was sleuthful students and now it’s …

… the Dutch government?!!

Acccording to an article posted by PC World this afternoon, The Dutch government has issued a warning about the security of access keys that are based on the widely used Mifare Classic RFID chip.

Government institutions plan to take “additional security measures to safeguard security,” Guusje ter Horst, minister of interior affairs, wrote in a letter to parliament on Wednesday.

NXP developed the Mifare Classic RFID chip, which is used in 2 million Dutch building access passes. [end] 

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