In their research paper Mr Tanenbaum and his colleagues Melanie Rieback and Bruno Crispo detail how to use RFID tags to spread viruses and subvert corporate databases.
Butler also talks to guest host Tracey Tanenbaum about moving to Western Australia, hanging out with his small town's indigenous population, and how he inherited his grandfather's dobro.
Rachel Maryles helps direct the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding's health care program, which trains providers to offer religiously and culturally sensitive care for patients of all backgrounds.
"This is intended as a wake-up call, " said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags.