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RFID Explained
SecurityFocus has a nice column summarizing the last year's worth of stories about RFID. Of course, you, diligent Slashdot reader, have read about many of these already. But for your slacker friends that need an RFID education in one easy-to-digest article, here you go.
and the only way to defend ourselves is with an electromagnetic pulse, our only defense against sentinel tags.
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But for your slacker friends that need an RFID education in one easy-to-digest article, here you go.
Oh, you mean the slacker friend who didn't spend his Friday afternoons reading frivilous websites, who managed to get that promotion instead of me. I'll forward him the link.
But for your slacker friends that need an RFID education in one easy-to-digest article, here you go
Most of my slacker friends need an education period.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
*watches walmart become target of infinate number of home made EMP devices
On the other hand, this will prevent people from theft, and quite possibly lower costs, or raise stock value, either way, someone benifets
"Of course, you, diligent Slashdot reader, have read about many of these already"
Read? No. Commented about? Yes!
The same thing is happening today. I'm here to tell you that the bar code's days are numbered.
When DigitalConvergence 's CEO and entrepreneur extraordinaire J. Jovan Philyaw hears about this, he'll start making free RFID scanners (CueDogs?) before you know it.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Everyone freaks out about RFIDs, but I remain in the camp that these could be really cool, as long as consumers (ok, geeks) figure out how to control them (by burning them out or just finding the darned things and removing them from unwanted places, like the back of a Yugo [1])
/fridge:
/.s email garble today : Email
Ever lose your cell phone and have someone call it so you could find it? Imagin being able to do that with any random item? superglue a RFID onto it, and walk around with a semi-portable RFID scanner. OK, not as great due to the limited range of the things, but you could pretty easily determine if the keys were under the couch or not.
Now, the sucky thing will be if (when) manufacturers build RFIDs into places that you can't get to without destroying the item or voiding the warranty.
So, we need an opt-out method for RFIDs, which may be as simple as a way to find the lil' bastards and plier them flat, but beyond the scare, there's promise:
telnet homenetwork : fridgeport
Brr! it's cold in here [45F]! Can I have your username?
> JoeBachelor
And your password?
> gotb33r?
Welcome to your Refridgerator/Freezer system!
>cd fridge
>ls
Directory of
Beer/
Beer/Shiner Bock (1)
Beer/MGD (5)
Condiments/
Condiments/ketchup package (13)
Condiments/mustard package (2.5)
Condiments/SoySauce package (1)
Condiments/Unidentifiable (5)
Condiments/mayonnaise (1) (warning: use-by-date 5 months expired!)
Vegetables/
Soda/
Coke (.5)
Mountain Dew (4)
non-caffeinated/
ActualFood/
lunchmeat_ham (1) (warning: use-by-date 1 week expired!)
cheese_cheddar (2) (warning: use-by-date is tommorow!)
End of directory. No healthy food available.
>man healthy
Sorry, you need to install the Mother or Health-Conscious-Girlfriend modules for these extensions
>make food
Unable to make food. Stop.
>exit.
Goodbye.
see?!!!!! see! this is my vision!
unrelated, I'm worried about
GriffJon@[ ]mail.com ['Hot' in gap]
hot in gap? what does that imply?
[1] That's a "Mall Rats" reference, for the rest of you.
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
They are exactly like bar code tags, except they are scanned by electromagnetic sensors, rather than lasers
Brilliant! Consise! Wow.
And a newspaper is EXACTLY like radio, except you recieve it with your eyes, instead of with a tunable RC network with optional FM demodulation.
To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target
shoes, pants, tires, body in shields whenever I leave my house? After the doctors spent all that time convincing me to take off the tin foil suit, you're telling me to put it back on?
I can't WAIT for the day when I just walk out the door with a cart full of stuff and it's automatically taken out of my checking account.
The thought of my wife doing that scares the living shit out of me.
That's why I drive with tin foil around my Michelin RFID tagged tires. I go through a lot of tin foil...
Just microwave your clothed for 15 seconds before the first time you wear them. :)
-Chris
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Think of it this way... you will be able to go to a bar with your trusty wrist watch RFID scanner, go up to a pretty girl and be able to tell that yes indeed she is wearing a thong, one of those frilly kinds, no bra, her purse contain three condoms, ribbed, and a lubricant plus she has a Palm with bluetooth.... I could go on but it is hard to type with one hand....
You will have to pry my proprietary software $$$ from my cold dead hands!
Read the Fucking ID??
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
How? It's a short-range technology.
More POWER:
"Attention Wal-Mart Employees and Customers, we are now going to perform the hourly RF inventory. You have 30 seconds to put on your aluminum foil hats..."
I'm glad you posted that because I was wondering if you could just protect yourself by "tag spamming". Purchase a whole bunch of tags (like 500 or so) and have them sewn into something always with you, such as a wallet. And you would never have to worry about Nike or the Gap or WalMart tracking you because they'd have absolutely no idea what clothing or products you actually have.
I'd love to see the look on the guys face when he scans someone and it reports that he has on his person a set of Bridgestone tires, 13 brands of CD players, 2 refrigerators and about 1000lbs worth of miscellaneous food and clothing items.