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An ID Number for Everything

Posted by michael on from the technology-is-not-neutral dept.

jon323456 writes "Put this in your privacy pipe and smoke it. According to news.com, MIT researchers have cooked up a new barcode that has enough dataspace to include a unique serial number for everything. And in combination with RFID tags...."

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  1. Re:OK let's have some fun here by musterion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    my post had some fake markup removed. it should have had:

    [sarcasm]
    But if you are not doing anything illegal you have nothing to worry about
    [/sarcasm]

  2. IPv6 by Libor+Vanek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What about using IPv6?

  3. The Beast! by ahoehn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And I suppose the aforementioned barcode will be tattoed on my forehead for convenience sake?

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