15 December, 2003
category: RFID
“Technology dubbed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is being fitted to a chip the size of a rice grain that can be embedded in clothing and other devices and allow tracking via the Internet.
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In short, while many of us worry about SpyWare, perhaps we should be most concerned with SpyWear.”
As there have been no successful item level RFID trials nor any live pilots, it seems unlikely that the “SpyWear” About.com references will approach the threat of unauthorized software installations pose over the next decade. Contemporary Trojan horses and viruses (such as SoBig) commonly organize themselves to become distributed email spam networks.