Is RFID the next coming plague? Or is it perhaps instead, a really great way to track and sort? Mr RFID himself shares his thoughts of this technology and the security issues involved.
BOSTON—I caught up with Kevin Ashton just as he was getting back into Boston following a red-eye flight.
Kevin is currently the vice president of marketing at RFID vendor ThingMagic in Cambridge, Mass. Moreover, he was one of the co-founders of MIT’s Auto-ID Center, and was an associate director at Proctor and Gamble.
He’s about as close to “Mr. RFID” as you are going to find.
I figured he would be good and grumpy after an all-night flight and ready to take on the two big current questions regarding RFID security: Is it really that easy to introduce an errant virus into an RFID network via a rogue chip, and can the power signals running between an RFID chip and the reader be intercepted for nefarious purposes? He was ready for both questions. Source: eWeek
[tags]marketing,rfid,mit,plague,rogue chip[/tags]