When Dutch researchers announced in March they'd managed to use radio frequency ID tags as a means of passing a virus to an information system's database, they merely demonstrated the obvious, says Daniel Engels, first research director at the Auto-ID Labs at MIT, a center of RFID research. RFID systems, being computers, are as vulnerable to viruses as any other computer. Good system designs and targeted applications minimize risk, Engels says.

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