Mind you, that whole thing happend in 2008. And this article doesn't add any new information nor does it sum up the already known info all that well.
This has less to do with some vast conspiracy pertaining to RFIDs and more to do with preventing proprietary technology (and their shortcomings) from becoming public. This of course prevents none of the amateur tinkerers from going out and doing some experimentation of their own and anonymously publishing the results in the true hacker spirit.
This is indeed old news. Still interesting though.