Recently, a scientist in the UK was interviewed (Scientist Installs Virus-Infected RFID in His Body) about his work with malware-infected RFID devices implanted in humans. There is no discussion in the video about the difficulty involved or how input validation techniques can easily defeat any real attack against a person or a group of people. So this ended up being just one more way to scare the hell out of people for no good reason.
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FUD: Scientist Installs Virus-Infected RFID in His Body
In Application Security, Biometrics, Hacking, Privacy on May 27, 2010 at 10:13Important Announcement for MySQL Users
In Application Security, Data Security on May 15, 2010 at 11:34According to Open MySQL security holes, the newest upgrade to MySQL plugs three important security holes, among others.
Tom Olzak on Security 