RFID Will Stop Terrorists?

Posted by michael on Friday August 8, 2003 @07:56AM from the can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

W33dz writes "Retailers and manufacturers around the world are enamored with the new radio frequency identification, or RFID, devices. The problem? What about when a thief or the police want to find out what you have in your house? Oddly enough, according to a Wired magazine article, the United States' largest food companies and retailers will try to win Dept of Homeland Security approval for radio identification devices by portraying the technology as an essential tool for keeping the nation's food supply safe from terrorists. This will give them blanket immunity from all law suits related to the product."

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First Post by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-08 07:59 · Score: -1, Flamebait

First post you fucking niggers.
Re:hmmm. by b-baggins · 2003-08-08 08:10 · Score: -1, Flamebait

The other alternative is that you are not so much smarter than everyone else that you are the only one who gets it, but rather that other people do not have your paranoia.

News flash for you. You are not Neo. You are not being watched. Your keystrokes are not being monitored by covert agents of the government. You are simply not important. Deal with it.

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