Loose Cannon Style

According to this news article being reported by The Consumerist, Credit card companies ganged up on the discovery channel to prevent the popular Mythbusters show from airing a segment on how easy it really is to steal RFID Credit Card Data.

Apparently, the second amendment can only take a company so far.  Discovery channel is free to air whatever they want, but they risk losing millions of dollars in advertising that these folks pay them every year.

The implications to this seem small, but it just goes to show you that in reality, EVERYONE HAS A PRICE.

This also comes on the heels of the recent battle with MIT Students who were prevented from giving a speech at a well known hacker convention called DEFCON in Las Vegas on how easy and insecure it is to duplicate and hack the entire Boston Subway Card System.

Luckily the judge ruled against the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority), but the ruling didn’t come until after the conference was already over, effectively censoring the students from giving a public speech.

Read Bruce Schneier’s Article about it on Wired.com Here.

Watch a video where Adam Savage himself, Co-Host of Mythbusters describes what happened.

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