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Did corporate lawyers put kibosh on 'Mythbusters' RFID episode? - Yahoo! News
Topic: Miscellaneous 8:47 pm EDT, Sep  2, 2008

In the video, Savage says that a conference call was arranged between co-host Tory Belleci and Texas Instruments to talk about the RFID vulnerabilities. But when Bellici and a MythBusters producer got on the call at the appointed time, "Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else....(Bellici and the MythBusters producer) were way, way out-gunned and (the lawyers) absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down, being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it."

Did corporate lawyers put kibosh on 'Mythbusters' RFID episode? - Yahoo! News



 
 
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