RFID Expert says Virus Assertion is 'Laughably Stupid."

And you thought I could be harsh? Wait until you take a look at this. Especially note the rather interesting way the author uses a barcode example to demonstrate the ridiculousness of the so-called research finding... you know, the one that asserted there is a profound RFID virus vulberability... the report that gives the term 'media madness' a whole new meaning.

A brief excerpt:
This is so laughably stupid, but somehow it got picked up by the news outlets because it contains buzzwords: "RFID" and "Virus".
Really, what they're doing is the equivalent of:
1. Designing a barcode system to automatically self-destruct if it ever reads a barcode of 1337 1337, for no reason other than to prove it's dangerous.
2. Broadcasting to the world that the barcode system will self-destruct if it ever reads a barcode of 1337 1337.
3. Intentionally reading a barcode of 1337 1337.
4. Claiming that barcodes are dangerous.
RFID Tags, just like barcodes are just data. Nothing more than data. If you intentionally design a system to be vulnerable to certain data, then intentionally expose the system to that data, then yup, you'll have a problem.