... newspaper and TV people can make out of a serious matter.
And, this time, it is more related to our field than global warming.

http://www.rfidvirus.org/

The point is, that RFID tags - which in itself have no means of executing software and only rudimentary and well-controlled "connectivity" - with "improper content" might through sloppily written software, passing part of the information transmitted from RFID without any check to other softwares, get corrupted. Think of array overflow (hello, that's me, the C-hater, again :-) ).

In a very far-fetched conclusion, even replication of such "RFID virus" can be imagined (of course the likelihood of this might happen is infinitesimally small, but that's the bottom line the newspaper and TV people never read).


Now, the TV makes out of it, "RFID tags spread computer viruses" (one randomly googled out example here).

JW