German privacy advocacy group FoeBuD plans to manufacture and sell a device that consumers could used to disable RFID tags permanently. The gadget—called the RFID-Zapper—was developed by two students ...

BERLIN--Two tech-savvy college students here have developed a way to turn a simple disposable camera into a device that emits an electromagnetic pulse to disable RFID tags, the RFID Journal reported ...

Safer swiping while voting and globetrotting: Tel Aviv University security expert finds security holes in America's passports and 'smart cards' http://www.eurekalert ...

For the incredibly privacy-conscious (or those with something to hide), the TagZapper by West End Laboratories is a handheld device to wipe RFID transmitting devices. I’ll be completely honest and ...

A quick electromagnetic burst is used by this gun that flows through the tag and in return, the RFID chip is fried. A quick electromagnetic burst is used by this gun that flows through the tag and in ...

Are you paranoid about digital stalkers reading your RFID chips? Here's a few do-it-yourself projects that may interest you. Some German hackers in Berlin have posted instructions on the Web for ...

“The RFID-Zapper is a gadget to deactivate (i.e. destroy) passive RFID-Tags permanently. The development-team presently consists of two people (MiniMe and Mahajivana), who had some help from a friend ...

Sure, there may be a number of relatively easy ways to destroy or disable an RFID tag (tossing it in the microwave, for instance), but where's the fun in that? There are plenty of good times to be had ...

Here is a renegade method to making a device that can destroy passive RFID tags permanently. Best of all, it is cheap as hell. It mostly consists of parts from a disposable film camera. The premise ...

Theoretically, I would say it is possible. From a practical standpoint, however, it is not. A zapper works by overloading a silicon microchip with so much energy that it blows the tiny circuits, much ...