https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b450f078-88ca-45dd-9baf-a0da7ddd80d6 The Last HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) -- July 18-20, 2008 Location: Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, Event: "HOPE Number Six" / "The Last HOPE" (7th HOPE conference), The RFID Censorship Incident: During the Q&A portion of Adam Savage's keynote at The Last HOPE, he revealed that Mythbusters had planned an episode testing RFID security -- how hackable, reliable, and trackable it was. He claimed: A Mythbusters researcher called Texas Instruments to arrange technical consultation, A conference call ensued with TI plus chief legal counsel from American Express, Visa, and Discover, The lawyers made it "very clear" that Discovery Channel would not air an episode about RFID vulnerabilities, Discovery backed down because it depends on advertiser revenue, This became a huge story covered by https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/31/adam-savage-of-mythbusters-on-discovers-shut-down-of-rfid-segment/, https://www.theregister.com/2008/09/03/mythbusters_gagged/, https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/mythbusters_epi.html, https://www.tomshardware.com/news/Mythbuster-RFID-HOPE,6313.html, and https://gizmodo.com/credit-card-companies-bully-discovery-mythbusters-into-5044442. The Retraction: Savage later walked it back, admitting he "got some of my facts wrong" since he wasn't on the call. He said the decision was actually made by their production company (Beyond Productions), not Discovery's ad sales department. Texas Instruments also disputed his account. Full talk archive: The complete talks from The Last HOPE are archived at https://vii.hope.net/talks.html and https://infocondb.org/con/hope/the-last-hope/. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:52:03 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b450f078-88ca-45dd-9baf-a0da7ddd80d6 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.