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RFID Tags Carry Potential Virus Threat

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Study: RFID Tags Carry Potential Virus Threat
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
March 15, 2006, 4:38 PM

Radio chips being marketed as a replacement for the barcode threaten consumer privacy and are able to carry a virus, Dutch university scientists revealed on Wednesday. An infected radio frequency identity (RFID) tag is able to disrupt the database that reads information on the chip.(link)

Don’t forget the government wants to put this technology in all it paper currency (some people say they have already started), and nationally recognised identification. And some idiots are putting it in their skin.

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