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Barcode Hacking

"Barcode systems susceptible to serious hacker attacks" - so says Heise Security , in their article posted yesterday concerning FX's presentation at this weeks 24th Chaos Communication Congress. The article describes a few of the threats to systems that rely upon barcodes (on and two dimensional) - in particular their ease of manipulation for scamming purposes and the possibilities for code injection attacks. Barcodes vs. RFID Tags Since I've been spending some in-between research time looking at RFID systems, I've had some opportunity to have a closer look at the various barcode encoding schemas currently in use. There is a lot of overlap between RFID and Barcode systems - with RFID back-end systems adopting many of the same operating principles (mainly because RFID is generally being deployed as a replacement for older/legacy print-barcode systems - particularly in supply-chain and itemized sal