Ok, if you don't know my opinion of RFIDs, you do now.

Anyway, recent studies have shown RFIDs to be infectible with viruses. Yay! I don't know if I should be happy (since this makes RFIDs useless) or concerned.

http://www.rfidvirus.org/index.html

Actually Im glad, because there was always this loomy idea I had that "humm, if we implant these in people, could they be hacked?". So now my concerns are backed up and hopeless the whole idea of these things will be scrapped.

Imagine buying a shirt, the clerk scanns the id as being bought, some asshole sends a virus to it using some small devices, you walk out and set off the alarm and everyone thinks you stole it.

OR even worse, you have a implanted chip that a virus has changed your information to a middle eastern terror suspect...

Judging by various reports, that last shit can happen as it is without any chips. Gotta feel bad for the guys that had nothing to do with terrorism they picked up in Afghanistan, set on a plane and then tortured them for months in Guantanamo. Until they realized they had a wrong dude.


And I have it happen quite often that the alarm still goes off on something I bought fair and square. Sometimes even when I didn't buy (or steal ) anything at all! I'll never understand the way those things work.