Virus Jumps to RFID

MrShaggy writes "According to a BBC article, researchers have been able to make the jump between RFID tags and viruses. They found that the mere act of scanning a mere 127 bytes could cause an attack vector that would corrupt databases. From the article;'"This is intended as a wake-up call," said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags. "We ask the RFID industry to design systems that are secure," he said.'"

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Totally agree

[mustafap]

This just sounds like typical academic marketing fluff. "Look, I'm doing important stuff! Not just Minix3!!"

Tanenbaum is a puff ball.