The lamescream media doesn’t help with totally useless “articles” or “expose’s” on computer security that don’t tell you what to do.

All apps, OS’s and hardware should be locked down by default and you should have to manually turn anything on. Also it should be hard to turn any potentially risky features on, requiring a read through the manual which should explain the security risks in plain language. This would reduce the scope of the problem a bit.

Of course it’ll never happen. Ppl are so in love with convenience they’d happily rfid chip themselves if it meant taking a few minutes less time in a supermarket queue.

Thats how i setup all my windows laptops anyway. Thats pretty much common sense.

Even so, it doesn’t pose a serious threat, unless of course you are in the habit of sharing your drives root.

I wouldn’t really classify it as a flaw, it’s like saying file and printer sharing is a security flaw. These things only pose a threat when no precautions are taken.

http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint

(Not trying to help anyone pull off this exploit in mentioning this, I just found it interesting and related!)

-Lorin