Apple Working on RFID iPhone?
Take this with a healthy dose of salt, but 9to5 Mac is reporting that Apple may be working on embedding RFID readers into the iPhone. So this won’t be constantly and insecurely transmitting data, which is one of the worries in the current generation of RFID transmitter equipped cards and passports. Rather, this would allow the iPhone to gather data from its surroundings, and talk to objects that are equipped with RFID transmitters. So, imagine being able to check the balance on your credit card locally, get a message when your laundry is done, find chipped objects in the utter chaos of your house, all the sort of wonderful things RFID is meant to be able to do, assuming they can ever fix the glaring security holes in the technology.
