RFIDs in guns?

"Smart" guns redux? Seen at Borepatch:

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Gunsmithing a Chiappa revolver

Tam and some other folks are talking about Chiappa and their RFID chipped handguns.  People are exercised by the PR FAIL of the response to people's shock that their trust might be violated this way - pretty interesting marketing plan to address that loss of trust, if you ask me.

But I remembered the 2006 Black Hat Briefings (probably the premier computer security conference), where I listened to some folks talk about how you can make malware that spreads from RFID chip to RFID chip via the reader.


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