Ericsson's Connect Me Tech: Touch-based Data Transmission

[acku]

Forget "bumping" or "beaming" things with your phones. Just reach out and touch something.

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[dimar]

I can imagine the possibility of transferring trojans and other malware by touching somebody. This could create a new age of hacking someone's computers, phones and whatever electronics.

 

[jonyb222]

@Dimar:
One would hope they would be smart about it and keep everything received in a pseudo-quarantine until the user approved it, beyond the normal virus scanner/protection we have right now there isn't much that can be done about insecure users though.

 

[zodiacfml]

Of course not. Think of the technology as a simple cable that connects two devices. The devices themselves are responsible for what they can do and not.

 

[shriganesh]

OMG!!! This is cool and secure!!!!
But it creates endless security gaps as well!

 

[axefire0]

Spies passing stolen info by bumping each other ...

 

[del35]

This seems like a cool technology especially if you can quarantine all data received in some sandbox to be allowed later into the system.