You live in a world of things that create longing and revulsion at the same time. You don't know if you want the things you want because you want them or because somebody has provoked your desire. It's hard to tell anymore if they are bad things — made by people under duress, bad for the environment and your body — or good things that fold neatly back into the biosphere when they're used up.
So here's Bruce Sterling.
Bruce Sterling does not worry about the nefarious uses of radio frequency identification chips
Adi Shamir has applied power analysis techniques to crack passwords for the most popular brand of RFID tags.
"I haven’t tested all RFID tags, but we did test the biggest brand and it is totally unprotected," Shamir said. Using this approach, "a cellphone has all the ingredients you need to conduct an attack and compromise all the RFID tags in the vicinity," he added.
