#3 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

RFID chips are sized next to a grain of rice. But it carries every information about the device they are attached to. It can contain your entire medical history; it can carry your credit card or passport details; details of your electronic door lock and so on.

These RFID devices are currently come attached with and every non digital device so that they can be easily tracked and communicated. Some of these devices don’t even require a battery.

The technology seems cool as all these come at a low price, as low as $1. So it will appear in every possible device of future. But the problem with them is their vulnerability to hacks.

Few months back at a security conference, researcher Kirstin Paget showed how easy RFIDs can be hacked. She used equipment worth $350 and copied the details of an RFID-equipped credit card. Then she made a duplicate card using the same data and made a payment using it. According to her, the hack was “embarrassingly simple.