Roger Huffadine

WORCESTER

CTO

RFID will be fine so long as Supermarkets don't try to use it on "check yourself out" systems.
The opportunity for fraud is huge.
Concealed about my person [handbag if I were a lady] is a device for capturing the IDs of cheap items [which I shove to the back of the shelf]. The reason for pushing items to the back of the shelf is to ensure that if the checkout doesn't scan the serial number of that item before I get to the tills, otherwise the security check will catch me. Alternatively I could have my accomplice put them in a trolly which gets left in an isle when we check out. I actually fill my trolly with expensive items. When I check myself out I place my handbag near the RFID scanner and emit the product IDs in response to the interrogation pulses from the RFID scanner.
My bag is full of lovely 'expensive' food, the till rings up cans of beans, cheap detergents etc.
Whoopee £200 per visit and all those supermarkets to have a go at :-)

So back to the old security methods then, because whilst RFID gives out serial numbers in response to interrogation pulses there will always be a way of fooling it.