RFID Hell

Matrix2110 writes "Finally, somebody has stepped up with an article that descibes the potental abuse of RFID. Imagine being flagged for social tendencies. Gattaca is not so far off as we think. it is simply a pass of a wand for your embedded tag rather than a drop of blood."

Comments

Its inevitable...

[Sonnenschein]

why fight it, enjoy life while you can.. We have fully qualified & competant people running the country, George Bush, John "Super Hero" Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, years of experience has taught these people well... Remember George Bush took a stand against human cloning and stem cell lines, we're in good hands.

Chill people, its all good..

Vote GWB 2004 !!

Re:Its inevitable...

[jackb_guppy]

First tag all who believe that tags are good, then note when they meet.

If more than 2 meet, then is a conspiracy to tag the rest, so we got them!

Opposing or thinking of opposing this next step ..

[burgburgburg]

in Homeland Security means the terrorists have won. Hysterical whining about "civil liberties" or "Constitutional protections" or things like that show your enemy combatant status. Just step away from the computer, pull down your pants and await the Patriot RFID insertion specialists.

Support your selected President in your actions and your thoughts or we'll know about it.

From the article

[VampireByte]

"Sky Guardian will unveil the first electronic device made specifically to track paedophiles at this month's Labour party conference and is to test the technology on a volunteer MP this week"

I wonder how many paedophile MPs will volunteer for this?

Re:They are criminals, so how is this abuse?

[t_allardyce]

I think the message is that if the technology is being used on some people, whats to stop it being used on others. Although the technology probably wont work and could be broken with a hammer in time for them to run away. I think we (the UK) should begin outsourcing prisioners to other countries - we had a great thing going with austrailia we could just dump all our major problems there and that was it.

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[John Harrison]

I for one welcome our new RFID overlords...

Oh wait, the article had nothing to do with RFID? I mean, of course I knew that. I was merely joking.

so....

[utexaspunk]

the story's not about RFID, it's not about "RFID Hell", and it's about a good use of technology that saves taxpayer money and allows convicted felons to be paroled so they can live more normal lives while still protecting the community.

Yeah, hit that one RIGHT ON THE HEAD, Matrix2110... Gattaca, here we come...

there's never a cop around when you need one

[hypertex]

...until now. Outfit the local gendarmes with these beauty's! Imagine using your GPS enabled phone to guide you to the cop posting a traffic citation two blocks down the street so you can redirect his efforts to handle the neighbor's weekly family dispute. Ahh..the irony...

Re:Is this really the solution ?

[Lord_Dweomer]

" Why do we have child molesters in the first place is the question that should be asked IMHO. Is it the oversexed society we live in? The furstration of men (it allways seems to be men) who can not deal with grown up relationships? Or is it our reduced tolerance towards such things? "

No, the problem is the children. You see, pedophiles would have no targets if there were not children. And everytime I see some politician cry out "THINK OF THE CHILRDREN!" I think to myself....hey....we wouldn't have this problem if there were no children to think about.

So in summary, my solution is to get rid of all children.