Risks of RFID.
An analysis of Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) is presented. Like most other technologies, RFID systems have pluses and minuses. In their most common applications, passive RFID tags enable rapid contact less determination of the tags' serial numbers, in theory helping to reduce erroneous ident...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 136 - 137 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
May2006
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