Viruses for your implanted chip

As mentioned in the last post, humans are already being implanted with RFID chips.

In addition to the severe privacy issues involved with implanting microchips in humans, these RFID chips are also vunerable to viruses and other malicious software:

"RFID tags may become commonplace in the future, but not a lot of people are looking forward to widespread implementation. There was already concern that these “smart barcodes” would allow consumers’ habits to be more easily tracked, and that the technology could facilitate identity theft. It turns out that RFID tags can transmit computer viruses, as well…

‘In our research, we have discovered that if certain vulnerabilities exist in the RFID software, an RFID tag can be (intentionally) infected with a virus and this virus can infect the backend database used by the RFID software. From there it can be easily spread to other RFID tags.’ The paper goes over three possible scenarios in which this could be exploited in a harmful fashion."

Don’t worry. I’m sure that you will be able to buy antivirus software for your implanted chip.