First off, we need to put this in perspective... It's not a computer virus that can affect humans directly. But rather, he managed to basically copy viral code to be stored on one of these chips. Devices that read the chip's data would then copy over the viral code, too. Thus, if compatible, it would 'infect' the computers that scanned it. If you think about it, this is a great revenge tactic for those that receive a 'chip' like this to pay back their 'benefactors'. I can already picture a terror-list who'd been chipped flashing their chip with viral code to attack as many OS's as possible so that every time s/he was 'scanned' in, it would brick the entire security system.[QUOTE="waxbytes"]
At least someone is considering some of the things that can go wrong with this kind of technology.
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And there will still be corporate 'talking head' dudes that will still dismiss these risks until they get hit, either by an outside person who wears a compatible chip to a 'rogue' employee frying their databases for fun and/or profit.
As the old saying goes, many things can be made foolproof but nothing can be made idiot proof.
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