Hope2601 Pt 10, Adam Savage and “The RFID Censorship Question” www.HOPE.net

Adam Savage answers a question about RFID Censorship after his talk on his Fascination with the Dodo Bird at the Last HOPE Hacker Conference (www.HOPE.net) which took place on July, 18-20 2008 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. — Mythbusters Host Retracts RFID Censorship – Mythbusters host Adam Savage is retracting comments he made at a hackers conference where he said an episode exposing security flaws in credit card RFID technology was squelched by credit card company lawyers. In a new statement Adam says, ” If I went into the detail of exactly why this story didn’t get filmed, it’s so bizarre and convoluted that no one would believe me, but suffice to say…the decision not to continue on with the RFID story was made by our production company, Beyond Productions, and had nothing to do with Discovery, or their ad sales department.” — Steven Levy gave the keynote address. Kevin Mitnick, Steve Rambam, Jello Biafra, and Adam Savage of MythBusters were also featured speakers at The Last HOPE Hackers Conference. The name referred to the expectation that this would have been the final HOPE conference due to the scheduled demolition of its venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania. www.TheNextHOPE.org is scheduled for Summer 2010. — Includes the ‘infamous’ new-yourk point-of-view on ‘unglazed’ ceramic tiles for ovens to make ‘better pizza’, OMG!!!