When you hold an
Android phone, you just hold it. When Seth Wahle holds the same phone, an NFC chip in his hand can load a malicious web page that exploits the phone. So, should you stop letting people touch your phone from here on out? Well, you don’t have to freak out just yet.
The first phase in transforming himself into a walking, talking Android
hack was for Wahle to find an NFC chip suitable for implantation. That’s not the sort of thing you can order
on Amazon, after all. He was eventually able to purchase some Schott 8625 Bio-glass capsules with embedded NFC tags from a company in China. These tags are usually used to identify livestock in an agricultural setting, but the bio-neutral tubes work equally well in humans.
