Magician Zi Teng Wang said he accidentally locked himself out of the RFID chip implanted in his own hand, admitting in a Facebook post that he literally “forgot the password” to the implant.
Wang explained that he originally installed the chip to use in magic routines, but quickly discovered that scanning other people’s phones against his hand “really doesn’t come off super mysterious,” especially since many devices have their RFID readers disabled by default.
Switching to his own phone removed the spectacle entirely, leaving the gimmick without much practical use.
Wang says the only fix is brute forcing every password
Wang said he rewrote the chip several times to repurpose it. First, it held a Bitcoin address, which he said never came up in conversation, and later changed it to a link to a meme hosted on Imgur.
That link eventually went offline, and when he tried to rewrite the chip again, he realized he had forgotten the password he set years earlier.
According to Wang, “techie friends” had looked into it and told him the chip was “too dumb and simple to hack.”
The only way back in, he said, would be to strap on an RFID reader for “days to weeks” and brute force every possible combination. While the old Imgur link has since come back online, Wang says the chip remains locked, leaving him stuck with an implant he can no longer modify.
Wang called the situation both inconvenient and hilarious, summing it up by saying he can now “honestly say that I forgot the password to my own hand.”
