For libraries that use RFID for circulation and inventory purposes you may want to look at this article via Boingboing. Seems you might be open viruses.
Boing Boing: HOWTO make an RFID virus: "Computer scientists from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam developed the first 'self-replicating RFID virus.' The idea is that the radio frequency identification tag acts as a 'vector' to infect the RFID middleware software that companies, for example, may be running as part of a system to track inventory of products."
Guess good ol' fashion barcodes aren't all that bad after all...
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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