Interesting looking talk coming up next week.<br><br>Eric<br><br><a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69014">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69014</a><br><br><b>Date </b>
From June 11, 2009 7:30 PM<br><br><b>Location </b>
Town Hall Seattle<br><br><b>Price</b>
$5.00<br><br><b>Description</b>
Chances are
one or more of your credit cards is embedded with a radio frequency ID
tag, listing your name, credit-card number and expiration date, and
more, for your security. But with $8 worth of gear from eBay,
hacker/futurist Paul Pablos Holman can scan your card from a distance,
retrieve all that data, and start shopping. Luckily for us, Pablos is
more concerned with demonstrating the frontiers of what hackers do, and
how tenuous our sense of security really is. And even hackers have day
jobsat former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's Bellevue-based
Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, Pablos is part of a team at work on a
wide variety of futuristic projects, including a fission reactor
powered by nuclear waste, a machine to stop hurricanes (by harnessing
the oceans own energy to lower its surface temperature), and a
laser-based mosquito-eradication system to eliminate malaria. Presented
as part of Seattle Science Lectures, with University Bookstore and
Pacific Science Center.<br>