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RFID Industry Confidential Memos
An anonymous reader writes "Cryptome has learned www.autoidcenter.org (RFID flak) has made internal memos available for perusal at their site. Those RFID people sure have some interesting plans for the future. Who needs conspiracy theories, when you can hear it from the horses mouth? Weeeeee!"
was that the sound of their server getting /.-ed?
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"Who needs conspiracy theories, when you can hear it from the horses mouth?" :)
Well, I can't now, thanks to Slashdot. Good job Slashdot, covering up RFID tag conspiracies.
Who needs conspiracy theories when we have conspiracy facts!
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
From communications.pdf:
- Identify potential consumer road blocks/fears.
- Construct a proactive framework to minimise negatives arising.
- Assess consumer reaction if press develop scare stories and develop best messages to pacify.
Sounds like they forgot one step: PROFIT!
Karma: Meh (Mostly from meh.)
Well I went a-exploring:
Search for "1.Earn Trust 2. Collect Info 3.??? 4. Profit"
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "1.Earn Trust 2. Collect Info 3.??? 4. Profit"
Search for "We think we absolutely rock"
1 to 5 of 92 results for: "We think we absolutely rock"
Search for "You can't trust us with your personal data"
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "You can't trust us with your personal data"
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
For those of you who have trouble finding the info at cryptome...
To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site search box.
This actually works!
Color me convinced-- I sure can trust these masters of technology with embedding "green tags" in my clothing! I'm sure the info will never be abused or fall into the wrong hands...
W
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Yeah, but what if opt-in is walking into the store? See MS EULA for this type of license.
And what if there is not opt-out?
Or you actually need to walk into the store to opt-out. But by walking in you opt-in?
Code poet, espresso fiend, starter upper.
Great.
Between refreshing the Slashdot homepage, and microwave laundry, when the hell am I supposed to get any work done?
Which creates an interesting problem when buying a tin-foil hat, I suppose.
Yes, a microwave would work, although it would not make it particularly convenient to "de-tag" a newly bought item.
"Sir, would you mind stepping into this large metal box for a moment. You may feel a warm, tingling sensation in every water molecule in your body."
Don't knock HTML email. It makes my life easier, since I
so its only us paranoid ones that cant get to the link?
I KNEW IT!!!
With Walmart backing it -- it appears unstoppable.
Whoo hoo! Now I'll have an easy means to do my thesis!
My topic: Tracking the migratory patterns of trailer-park-dwelling white trash with radio signals.
The meteorology people are probably thrilled as well... no more trying to put instrument packages in a tornado's path, just zero in on the RFID tag in Cletus S. Yokel's sneaker, and track it when the tornado sucks him out of his double-wide.
It seems the totalitarian nightmare predicted by Orwell has already arrived. Big Brother, watching our underpants, 24 hours a day.
To quote the great patriot, Benjamin Franklin, "Those who give up essential liberty to purchase fancy underwear deserve neither liberty nor fancy underwear."
Yes, those damned croporations will be the downfall of us all.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
"non-paranoid crackpots" ...and which might those be?
The problem with microwaving clothing would be the shorts I have on right now, for example. They have a metal zipper.
WARNING: Do NOT microwave shorts before removing them from body. Side effects could include actually reading those spams that offer to help you grow larger body parts.
It's going to take much more than just a tinfoil beanie to counteract this. I'm talking full-body coverage here, people!
~Philly
Seems to me that it would be possible to make a 3rd-party RFID "bug scanner" for $20-40 that could scan for the devices, and optionally burn them out if found.
N.
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
While the shower of sparks and smell of melting plastic in the microwave is fun, I'm much rather swap as many RFID tags as possible with my friends, neighbors, and random objects around the house.
I suspect you could quickly mask your "signature" by carrying a wide swath of tags with you when you go shopping. I'd love to see the database which has a customer walking in wearing a woman's left shoe, hiking boot, 14 boxes of oatmeal, a child's tanktop and four library books.
Disable?
Nah... too easy.
What I want to do is reprogram the suckers so when they scan my clothing I will be wearing a alarm clock on my head, have a 12 pack of Gillete Razors hidden in my shoes, answer to the name of Rover, have my shots for distemper, but due for a booster on rabies.
~Z
Oh, man, what are you thinking?!?!?! Never purchase a tin-foil hat! It could secretly be rigged with a mind-control device or fake foil which transfers the rays unfettered! You can't trust a tin-foil hat unless you've assembled it yourself. It's best if you can mine and smelt the ore and roll the foil yourself. Remember, you need to get it thin enough that it won't develop metal fatigue and crack along the bends - otherwise the microwaves and mind-control rays can seep in. ***grumble*** store-bought tin-foil hats... what next?
So just dont buy anything you're not willing to throw in the microwave for 10 seconds.
that rules out pet shops...
'sorry timmy, poor lassie didn't make it through the deactivation procedure'
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
Disabling an RFID will be tantamount to tampering with a product in a way it was not meant to be.
But officer, I've ALWAYS microwaved my clothing, don't you?
Read, L
Just turn the tin-foil hat inside out after you buy it. That way the mind-control device is on the outside and you can control the world.
Well, the original article did say that...
Now, I was just about to post something to the effect that while it may well be a privacy negative, anyone who thinks it's a health hazard has probably caught Alzheimers from the aluminum in their tinfoil hat. (Which would be pretty hard, considering the Aluminum-Alzheimer's link has been largely debunked, but never underestimate the power of the placebo effect on a dedicated conspiracy theorist!)
But reading your post... I just realized... who are the real clothing pirates? Who's the greatest threat to WalMart and Chinese Hegemony? Who's the biggest threat the CIAA (Cotton Industry Association of America, oh what an appropriate acronym!)
My God! The friggin' Amish! Of course! The Amish are engaged in the rampant PIRATING of TEXTILES, and they're doing it RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES, RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA!
So yeah, if the research company did the polling in Pennsylvania, you can bet your ass that 61% would fear the health consequences of RFID tags. Hatch! Utah! Mormons! It's a MORMON CONSPIRACY to ERADICATE the AMISH! Gotta get the word out on Slashdot! Hey, check out that horse and buggy across the street, but that's weird, it's got two clean-shaven young drivers in white shirts, damn nice buggy, but the drivers sure don't look Ami{$4[[4][NO CARRIER
Or hack the RFID database to include one new ID that brings up 'FUCK YOU' on any scanner, and reprogram every one to that ID.
Then invent a portable broadcast reprogrammer, so I can walk through stores changing their entire inventory...
We can only hope.
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"Hi, I notice that you are attempting to place a pair of shorts in your microwave, would you like me to help by:
- recommending other nutritious meals from our corporation
- Retrieve the warranty text for your microwave and shorts from the corporate web site
- Call the authorities to help educate you about the benefits of the RFID EULA you agreed to.
- Retrieve information about the penalties for violating the DMCA
- Suggest other apparel made from al-foil worn by kooks like yourself"
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
Pirate dressing is not 'cool', it's not 'dope'. Some people will not learn unless their clothing is destroyed... we have plans to garner popular support for the initiative by destroying the clothing of attractive young women in the SLC area.
even worse would be if retailers installed this sort of device. if you have less than x dollars/pounds/rupees an alarm sounds and you're escorted out of the store.
[a few beeps emit from the device]
Geek: So, I see you're not wearing any panties.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
What stops me from walking through Wal-Mart wearing one of these things zotting tags left and right?
(***) [I am kidding and fully aware that the E/M waves radiated by this thing would be difficult to absorb in sufficient quantity at frequencies that would pose much of a health risk, so please, no flaming the cancer ref.]
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
That's what you're saying now. Just wait until the new automated dog catcher starts hunting you from a mile away, shoots you with a tranquilizer dart, and you wake up in a cage at the local pound with nothing but a bowl of water and some Alpo.
Yeah, but at least his rabies shots will finally be up-to-date.
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I, being the consummate clothes mis-placer that I am, would certainly love to be able to wave a scanner around my home to locate my socks, underwear, shirts, car keys, housecat, etc. Maybe it could even be used to tell me which of the scanned objects is currently the cleanest based on the amount of time since it was last put into the washing machine -- which would also require scanning since it's usually buried under the other misplaced clothes.