Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man'

Posted by jgrahamc on Friday May 28, 2010 @05:18AM
from the blog.jgc.org dept.

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/05/inside-rfid-virus.html

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Re:Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man' by Vivtek on Friday May 28, 2010 @10:28AM (#1386487)

This whole story just really made me roll my eyes.

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Re:Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man' by LaPingvino on Friday May 28, 2010 @06:22AM (#1386079)

He is missing the point. Sure, this is a logical thing to happen. The sensation of the story was that it's a device in the human body, and that this can have ugly consequences.

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Re:Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man' by davidwilson on Friday May 28, 2010 @08:50AM (#1386235)

I fail to see how the consequences could be any more ugly than a guy armed with a RFID tag outside his body?

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Re:Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man' by Tarks on Friday May 28, 2010 @08:57AM (#1386255)

Imagine what the average not-too-technical person sees when they hear about this, they see a man walking into stores and the computer systems shutting down/exploding because he has a 'virus', one of those magical,evil things that makes their computers slow. . . not the adware crap they install.

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Re:Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man' by noodle on Friday May 28, 2010 @10:53AM (#1386553)

a strip search won't find an implant.

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