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Non-Risk of the Day

news.com.com.com.com is reporting that someone has realized that you can reprogram RFID tags so the scanner at the checkout thinks that you're buying something cheaper than you really are.

Of course, doing this exact same thing with printed bar codes by making up fake ones and sticking them on merchandise has been floating around for a long time. I don't see how the RFID threat is significantly different.