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Mythbusters Gagged: Did Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws ?

Submitted by MacRonin on August 31, 2008 - 3:44am
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Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws - Via Consumerist:

Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID's security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage.

Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it.

Editor: Interesting video with the article. Go to original site for that [...]

(Read Original Article - Via Consumerist .)

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