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The chip in my hand is blinking red, is that bad?

only if you have been doing bad things. report to nearest police drone as soon as possible.

joke aside. i kinda want to brush the "rfid as tracking device" idea aside. but i guess that as things improve it may not be as far fetched as it is today.

all in all, rfid is just another tech. its how we use them that will really tell us something.

now, i would love to have a near field "key" in my hand or similar (i read about someone that put a rfid in his hand and the reader close to his apartment door so that he only had to grasp the knob to unlock it), but i would love being able to turn it of when i dont need it. kinda like putting my keys in my pocket when i dont need to unlock something...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19904543/wid/1...15829?GT1=10240

This isn't the first time it's happened. The first time I recall was seven or eight years ago when a guy implanted a chip into his arm so he could activate appliances with a hand wave.

Sounds good to me. And they've even already got hackers out there spoofing these things (or at least they've given it the name, the article didn't say whether it had already happened).

RFID Swipe/Proximity Cards are widely used for access control... and those systems have been compromized each time.

The problem is that a microprocessor like used in smart cards uses too much power, so those swipe cards can't implement effective certificate schemes.

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