Can you protect me now?

To demonstrate how poorly cellphone companies protect our privacy, John Hargrave got the home address of Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg (it wasn’t difficult), grabbed his bullhorn, and paid him a visit.

To give you an idea about how easy it was to get this information, the only thing that John did was sign up for one of those “free cell phone records” listings and scan it for the cells and home addresses of the CEOs from the big three: Randall Stephenson of AT&T, Dan Hesse of Sprint Nextel, and Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon.

[Zug.com via Consumerist via @sblaufuss]

DIY RFID scanner for $250

This is why putting RFID tags in passports and driver’s licenses is a bad idea. It’s really easy to read the information from them at a distance without the “mark” knowing they’ve been scanned. Hacker Chris Paget explains how this could violate your privacy.

[via BoingBoing]