Super sleuth ? Super stalker ? RFID cloning is here - NOW

Nike teamed up with Apple to produce Nike+iPod which gives runners using their shoes real-time updates - speed and length of their workouts. A small RFID battery powered device fits into the soles of Nike shoes, and broadcasts workout data to a small receiver plugged into an iPod Nano. This can be downloaded and the individuals performance tables, history charted.

Scott Saponas, at the University of Washington in Seattle identified the opportunity for super sleuthing or stalking that this device provides - something Apple and Nike didn't do.

The RFID broadcasts up to 60 feet and so by rigging up reader - a Linux-based "gumstix" -- a tiny, $79 computer they found they could read the device as it passed by, say the doorway of a target's house.By suitable wi-fi this could be relayed and acted on. Crazy idea but the sinister potential is not that unreal.

Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation sees this as a harbinger of potential surveillance.

"We're going to see more devices like this in the next few years," he said. "This isn't just a problem with the Nike+ iPod per se -- it's a cautionary tale about what happens when companies unwittingly build a surveillance capacity into their products."

Find out how to clone someone's RFID "key" to their office ......

...and you probably have already read about how No2ID have cloned passport details by cloning.

..and they are the uses we know about.

See report in Guradian and also Schneier on Security