I seriously doubt it. Lawyers can issue scary legal threats in their sleep. It's like yawning to them.
Threatening Mythbusters is probably a matter of 15 billable minutes of legal time. Whereas building a secure RFID is hundreds or thousands of engineering hours.
Here's something that just occurred to me: One reason why actual security is more expensive than lawyers is that your security team is up against black-hat hackers who are willing to spend hundreds of hours working -- anonymously, in secret, and without pay -- to defeat you. Whereas your legal team is generally not opposed by a black-hat legal team that is willing to spend hundreds of pro bono legal hours to try to defeat you in court. Particularly because you can't challenge a legal threat while simultaneously remaining anonymous and working in secret.
Whereas building a secure RFID is hundreds or thousands of engineering hours.
Building the insecure RFID is also hundreds or thousands of engineering hours. There is a lot of grunt work that was done regardless; designing the radios, designing the manufacturing process for the ID chips to be as cheap as possible, etc. Getting the crypto right isn't much on top of that.
Threatening Mythbusters is probably a matter of 15 billable minutes of legal time. Whereas building a secure RFID is hundreds or thousands of engineering hours.
Here's something that just occurred to me: One reason why actual security is more expensive than lawyers is that your security team is up against black-hat hackers who are willing to spend hundreds of hours working -- anonymously, in secret, and without pay -- to defeat you. Whereas your legal team is generally not opposed by a black-hat legal team that is willing to spend hundreds of pro bono legal hours to try to defeat you in court. Particularly because you can't challenge a legal threat while simultaneously remaining anonymous and working in secret.