Seth Wahle steal your photos, passwords by holding
Seth Wahle has a chip implanted into his body. Wahle, a former petty officer in the US Navy and now an engineer at a company called APA Wireless, is a biohacker, someone who likes toying with the limits of the human body.
Now, Wahle is using that chip to offer an intriguing insight into the future of cyber security. Using the chip embedded in his hand, Wahle and his collaborator Rod Soto have shown he can hack into someone’s phone simply by touching it. The duo are due to show off at a hacker conference in Miami on 16 May.
They’re not doing it for malevolent reasons, rather to demonstrate a hidden way our phones and computers could one day be hacked without us realising.
It all began with a serendipitous conversation in a pizza parlour with Soto, a security researcher and the organiser of an event called Hack miami in Florida. “Seth was there, eating pizza,” Soto says (Wahle clarifies that he was also doing homework), “and I was like ‘hey, you look like someone who likes computers.’ And I find out the guy has a chip in his hand!” Wahle’s implant is an RFID chip, a tiny device that can hold small amounts of data and communicate with devices nearby.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150515-i-hack-phones-with-touch-alone?ocid=global_future_rss
