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<P>If you enhance your workout with the new Nike+ iPod Sport Kit, you may be
making yourself a surveillance target.</P>
<P>A <A
href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/systems/privacy.html">report</A>
from four University of Washington researchers to be released Thursday reveals
that security flaws in the new RFID-powered device from Nike and Apple make it
easy for tech-savvy stalkers, thieves and corporations to track your movements.
With just a few hundred dollars and a little know-how, someone could even plot
your running routes on a Google map without your knowledge.</P>
<P>The <A href="http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/">Nike+ iPod</A> gives runners
real-time updates about the speed and length of their workouts via a small RFID
device that fits into the soles of Nike shoes, and broadcasts workout data to a
small receiver plugged into an iPod Nano.</P>
<P>While this setup sounds convenient and cool, it didn't sit well with Scott
Saponas, a computer science graduate student at the University of Washington in
Seattle. After enjoying his Nike+ iPod for a few months, Saponas began to
suspect there might be other, more nefarious uses for the gear.</P>
<P>He brought his concerns to University of Washington computer science
professor Yoshi Kohno and fellow graduate students Carl Hartung and Jonathan
Lester. After just a few weeks of tinkering, the four researchers discovered
that the Nike+ iPod is, as Kohno put it, "an easy surveillance device."</P>
<P>The first problem is that the RFID in the shoe sensor contains its own
on-board power source, essentially turning your running shoe into a small radio
station capable of being received from up to 60 feet away, with a signal
powerful enough to be picked up from a passing car.</P>
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