questions about touchscreens and the upcoming Yoga from Lenovo...

[SteveRiley]

Relating this back to your presentation where you mentioned attack surfaces, imagine you're a malware author: flip it over and call it a "detection surface" rather than an "attack surface" - you've just provided antivirus vendors and hackers with more points of reference to identify the infection and remove it... Also, I know this isn't what you were arguing, but it's relevant: consider a piece of malware whose infection vector is NFC... an infection that spread through NFC probably wouldn't spread very far, (today, 2014!) since most people don't link a long chain of NFC devices together.

Remember also the bit about vulnerability chains. I'm not actually (too) worried about the NFC as an attack target (yet). But as a mechanism to deliver malicious payloads or confidential data from one place to another, I see risk.

you (and the rest!) have raised the bar in this forum... I hope your _other_ job has nothing to do with those emails

An aspect of my job is, in fact, competitive analysis. I argue for (part of) my living, haha.

it only takes one part of the couple to be compromised for you to have a problem!

Or a negatively affected social life, at least until you get to the doc

[Feathers McGraw]

Actually, the potential for transmitting malware via NFC is probably not as small as I thought.

People will try anything to save/win money... putting malware in one of these would definitely work:

[SteveRiley]

People will try anything to save/win money

One of the best ways to short-circuit the brain's reasoning capacity.

[Snowhog]

Free money to Man, is what cocaine is to Rats.