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harrybr
A sensationalist write up for PR purposes. It's just a common RFID tag, much like the kind we use for pets.

The fact that this guy implanted it under his own skin is inconsequential.

DanHulton
Inconsequential to us, but I guarantee I'll be hearing about it from my mother.
wendroid
Was the first thing I got sent this morning.

You've got to be pretty stupid to do this :

    S: any RFIDs around with code for me to execute
    C: sure, here's some 0x1fab214bab3421baeb3f2d287d20d8297d2
    S: Thank yo ... Connection reset by peer
sp332
Don't run this, just put it in a .txt file and run a virus scanner on it:

  X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
OK, it's actually harmless, but it's the only pure-ASCII executable I've ever seen, which is pretty cool.
sesqu
I'm not so sure about that. All you need is a bit of buffer overrun, reflection, or poor escaping mechanisms - and none of those are exactly rare.

Here's a 2006 article on RFID+buffer overflow tat wikipedia pointed me at: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6386.ars

cosmohh
Sure, the way he does it is sensationalist, but I still like his concept of infecting RFID system by just "carrying" around a malicious RFID tag.