Mr. Ken Wild

Ken Wild, senior research support engineer at the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University in WA, said information protocols the tags use have been simplified greatly and has left them with a "bit of a hole".

Wild said Generation One tags have been designed to run on low power with an extended frequency range, without any room left for sophisticated (and more secure) communications protocols.

"The tag receives what it considers an intelligent signal in the right kind of modulation, attempts to decode and then considers the signal as an uncorrectable error.The tags then reset themselves to an error state, the same status as the initial power-up state," Wild said.

Ken Wild, senior research support engineer at the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University in WA, said information protocols the tags use have been simplified greatly and has left them with a "bit of a hole."

Mr. Ken Wild

Ken Wild
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Ken WildSenior Research Support EngineerSchool of Computer and Information ScienceBuilding 18 Room 226 Edith Cowan University2 Bradford StreetMount Lawley WA 6050Phone: +61 (0) 8 9370 6872Email: k.wild@ecu.edu.au