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Defense Department Drafts RFID Policy
Bob Wehadababyitsaboy writes "According to CNET News, the Department of Defense has announced its new policy of requiring all suppliers to use RFID chips in all goods supplied to the military by 2005, except on bulk commodities such as sand, grit or liquids. It claims that this move will help them streamline inventory and delivery of vital supplies around the world."
With improved inventory controls, how the hell am I going to get my hands on a 'surplus' tank now?
Beep beep.
From the past week...
I know I've seen this recently
Scan, scan, scan... Check one box. Scan, scan, scan. Mistakes aren't noticed for months.
SGT: Quick Private, Go get a box a gas masks for those civilians
PRVT: Hey, this box is just full of baked beans
High-Powered Aircraft-Based RFID Transmitters
with Super-Sensitive Receivers...
The Easiest Way to Count Your Enemy's Resources
(Or are all these RFID's only in the packaging,
or only with the items they label until
they have been checked-in the first time?
These high-tech barcodes are becoming commonplace if you like it or not.
except on bulk commodities such as sand, grit or liquids
What about hot grits?
are the RFID tags gonna cost taxpayers $6k each?
This space available.
Build a RFID detector into a mines, boobytraps etc. If your in RFID range your in the killzone
It may be required by suppliers in 2005, but that doesn't necessarily mean the military will successfully implement the technology by then. From my personal experience, IT tends to move incredibly slowly. It has taken more than 6 years and counting to implement Public Key Infrastructure; it has taken more than 10 years and counting for the Defense Message System. I won't be holding my breath on RFID.
Isn't the way this is worded a bit odd? Instead of a policy of buying only RFID'ed stuff, they are actually mandating that the RFID be put in?
Great, now all we need to do to detect incoming missiles is to put a few giant shopping security beepers on our borders and the RFID's will alert us!
except on bulk commodities such as sand, grit or liquids.
Soldier: Hey these grits taste like sand!
Cook: Don't yell at me, we aint got those fancy smancy RFID tags in all our stuff so we can tell our shirts from our underwear!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
The potential dangers go further than merely allowing "the enemy" (LOL) to check your inventory. It's pretty easy to forecast that denial of service attacks will be used against this system as well as mere snooping, and there's no way that it'll be hardened against them because RFID is marketed as a cheap and simple way of reducing your costs, which eliminates hardening entirely.
By the way, there's no need for the sledgehammer aircraft-based transmitter approach. I would expect inventory snooping to be done by dropping small scanners into delivery trucks or air vents, or getting them positioned properly by the most powerful weapon, namely insider help, either voluntary or under duress.
Even worse, this is not just an inventory issue. Once RFID tags are accepted, live hardware will employ them, and the potential problems then hit another dimension altogether.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
Now chip yourself, your dog, the kids!
Would you turn your RFID detector on in the knowledge that a mine might be silently armed by RFID detection, and then explode when you're close?
I for one, am pleased to see that they don't want to go putting any of them little RFID tags in my grits. Please pass the biscuits and gravy.
Is it fascism yet?
RFID wouldn't be put on items that would be taken into the field. Those items, as the article stated, would be at least embeded at the "level of cases or pallets."
I have no doubt the gov does not care about passed-along expenses, expecially because in theory most RFIDs are less than 4 cents each in cost, and getting cheaper.
But worse RFIDs are in cars and readable from over twenty feet away:
TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have tracking transponders!
Spy transmission chips embedded in tires that can be read REMOTELY while driving.
A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFid chips embedded in the tire).
Yup. My brother works on them.
Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people.
Its kind of like FBI "Taggants" in fertilizer and "Taggants" in Gasoline and Bullets, and Blackpowder. But these car tire transponder Ids are meant to actively track and trace movement of your car. FYI : Technical data on common explosives chemical fingerprint "taggants" from Princeton federal reports : http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/ ~ota/disk3/1980/8017/801705.PDF (slashcode sometimes inserts spaces into urls)
I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].
It is for QA and to prevent fraud and "car theft", but the US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border. The customs service and FBI do not yet talk about this, and are starting using it soon.
Photos of chips before molded into tires:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01g C: www.sokymat.com/sp/applications/tireid.html
(slashdot ruins links, so you will have to remove the ASCII space it insertess usually into the url above to get to the shocking info and photos on the enbedded LOGI 160 chips that the us gov scans when you cross mexican and canadian borders.)
You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret.
Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.
http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html
but the fact is... YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A RADIO TRANSPONDER not counting your digital cell phone which is routinely silently pulsed in CA bay area each rush hour morning unless turned off (consult Wired Magazine Expose article). Those data point pulses are used by NSA on occasions.
The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this tire scanning information as secret as the information regarding all us inkjet printers sold in usa in the last 3 years using "yellow" GUID barcode under dark ink regions to serialize printouts to thwart counterfeiting of 20 dollar bills. (30 to 40 percent of ALL California counterfeiting is done using cheap Epson inkjet printers, most purchased with credit cards foolishly). Luckily court dockets divulge the existence of the E
do you know where your rations are?
-tog
Just because products can be inventoried rapidly with RFID or barcodes doesn't necessarily mean that inventory control improves. There needs to be someone with a brain cell in the loop somewhere too.
As a mildly funny example, I'm pretty tired of the wholemeal pitta bread running out every day several hours before the white variety in our local supermarket. It's been happening for years, despite the perpetual roving hoards of clerks running up and down the isles with their little scanning machines. You'd think that better stock control would be used to help increase sales by ordering optimal amounts.
I bet you've all seen your own versions of this lack of a guiding intelligence in places, despite deployment of the latest technologies.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
Of course when the military brass catches on that these could be programmed to trigger off of the rfids on commissioned officers insignia bought at the PX (smart fragging) this whole rfid idea will be history.
can any of you feel a draft? that would be the winds of change, bullowing at gale force.
/.puppets, & refudlicking capitollist hill cronIEs.
.asp on that. when the lights come up, there'll be no going back, & no where to hide.
you won't be needing any corepirate nazi 'monitoring' gadgets, as the lights come up.
all in all, y'all are doing a remarkable job of participation in the planet/population rescue effort. there's still much/more to be done.
as you can maybe already see, yOUR survival/success is not the least bit dependent on the gadgets/mindphucking devices of the greed/fear based corepirate nazis, & their phonIE ?pr? ?firm? buyassed
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investigate the newclear power plan. J. Public et AL has yet to become involved in open/honest 'net communications/commerce in a meaningful way. that's mostly due to the MiSinformation suppLIEd buy phonIE ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup FraUD execrable, etc...
truth is, there's no better/more affordable/effective way that we know of, for J. to reach other J.'s &/or their respective markets.
the overbullowned greed/fear based phonIE marketeers are self eliminating by their owned greed/fear/ego based evile MiSintentions. they must deny the existence of the newclear power that is dissolving their ability to continue their self-centered evile behaviours.
as the lights continue to come up, you'll see what we mean. meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges, not the least of which is the planet/population rescue (from the corepirate nazi/walking dead contingent) initiative.
EVERYTHING is going to change, despite the lameNT of the evile wons. you can bet your
we weren't planted here to facilitate/perpetuate the excesses of a handful of Godless felons. you already know that? yOUR ONLY purpose here is to help one another. any other pretense is totally false.
pay attention (to yOUR environment, for example). that's quite affordable, & leads to insights on preserving life as it should/could/will be again. everything's ALL about yOUR motives.
take care, we're here for you.
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Of course. Doing inventory is one of the most labour intensive processes a business has (some would have to shut down). The bigger the organization, the worse the problem. Regular barcodes help, but still have issues. These will improve accuracy, reduce the labour required (personnel and time). What organization (especially government) wouldn't want that? Especially in these times.
I can just see it now--some Intel-made chip somewhere starts to overheat or interfer with some other chip somewhere deep in a ammunition storage bunker. BOOM! Let's see Bush try to blame that on Al Qaeda!
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
to be won of the first 'chosen' (buy force/farce), you should have a target symbull emblazoned on your personage.
It's simple physics. RFID signal must go both ways - from the mine to the RFID tag and back. The emissions from the boobytrap to a boobytrap detector are one way. You can detect the boobytrap before it can detect you. This is a well-known fact for counterdetection. E.g., you can detect a radar signal well-before the radar can see you.
Does this mean that if the army marches through Walmart,
they will all beep like hell on the way out?
Scifiber Phil
on this page.
I find that they tend to have an interesting take on things.
Of course, with IPv6, there's enough IP addresses for all those particles of sand and grit. Not sure about the liquids, though
-kgj
-kgj
"You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret."
In other words, I'm the only one who knows, and the FBI is after me. That's why I'm posting from a phone booth.
"The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this tire scanning information as secret as the information regarding all us inkjet printers sold in usa in the last 3 years using "yellow" GUID barcode under dark ink regions to serialize printouts to thwart counterfeiting of 20 dollar bills. (30 to 40 percent of ALL California counterfeiting is done using cheap Epson inkjet printers, most purchased with credit cards foolishly)."
Have you ever actually tried printing money with an inkjet? You'd have to be blind to be fooled.
"Alternatively you could illegally build jamming devices at : 13.56 MHz, + 1,356 MHz +- many freqs (TI-RFid) and a few others. If microwave is ever employed you might not be able to effectively jam but your brain would possibly cook over time, as it now known as of this year that the three harmonic resonances of water are not the only chemical actions harming human tissue at gigaherz frequencies. Jammers would be illegal and violators easy to locate. Tire removal is the only option."
Or you could burn out the chip, at your leisure. Why make things difficult?
"RFIDs have been covertly used and sold by TI for over ten years are in many many products... and now your tires are being read by the us gov as you drive at speeds of up to 100 Mph on primary US interstate corridors. (Actually 160 km/h)."
Go grab a map. See how many "primary" interstate corridors there are. Your conspiracy theory fails the "logistics" test.
"
Anyway, regarding tire radio transmitters: the sokymat LOGI 160, and sokymat LOGI 120) are just SOME of the transponders found in modern tires. The earliest tire radio spy chips had only 64 bit serial numbers but they have rapidly evolved post Sept 11 bombings: LOGI 160 LOGI 120 has 224 bit R/W memory (sokymat.ch) to be marked using external hand help injectors with "salt" info when the fbi tags your parked car using RFID programmer.
Basically the FBI "marks your car" without touching it physically, thus eliminating a "warrant" to put a locater on your vehicle."
Hand held what, doing what? So much for "touching it".
"Just as the FBI can listen to you while you are at home by LEGALLY bouncing an infrared beam off your vibrating window pane and modulating the signal, the US Gov can LEGALLY inject (program) a saltable read-write sokymat LOGI eeprom tire chip (and other brands of tire transponders)"
Not without a warrent they can't. Besides do you know how much such equipment costs, and it's "failure" modes.
"Using these chips to track people while they drive is actually the idea of the us gov, and current chips CANNOT BE DISABLED or removed. They hope ALL tires will have these chips in 5 years and hope people have a very hard time finding non-chipped tires. Removing the chips is near impossible without destroying the tire as the chips were designed with that DARPA design goal."
Anything with an "antenna" can be disabled. Think about it for a second.
"All the tires stored in the federal logging computers at the current and future interstate highway chokepoints can be (with some effort) tied to particular peoples vehicles, but typically they are used forensically, (ie. After a vehicle is found, its history of travel is used as evidence against it, installing at factories, and people using credit cards to buy new tires makes a few more strategies easy for the feds)."
Note how a majority of these conspiracy theories require an enemy of near infinate capacities. Those of us who've working in the government know better.
that my tax dollars are not being used to ship sand around the world. Especially to Iraq.
You might want to think deeper than that. Think counter-counter. RFID tags don't have to respond to just any old signal, and their response doesn't have to be any old signal (it could even be chemical).
RFID tags aren't some kind of super weapon, and can be defeated easily (see conspiracy post below). That applies for both sides in a war.
So the next time the US is invading a country, the country to be invaded can get an accurate assesment of what the US military literaly "has in store for it" by flying a reconnaissance airplane over each US military cargo ship and past each US cargo plane to collect a complete and accutary inventory list of the cargo onboard the ship or airplane!
Very convenient ;-)
Quit buying the cheap tin foil at discount warehouses and once, just once, buy the good stuff at a quality store which ubdoubtedly tracks you with cameras, keeps track of your shopping cart, wants to sell you frequent buyer cards and so forth and so on... ...because I think you current tin foil hat is of inferior quality.
:s
What on Earth are you on with your 'top secret' blabber ?
This topic has been passed by on Slashdot time and again
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=tyre%20tag
And is getting about as old as the story of the McDonald's customer spilling too hot coffee over herself.
Secret my ass.
Now, the rest of your post, though, is just deliberate paranoia - the FBI mods you, an anon coward with fits of delusion, down ?
I think it's just people tired of your whining doing so.
If you want us reading your previous posts, *gasp*, point to them - better yet, just post under a username. If you think they can then easily snoop on you - guess what ? They already could regardless of your state of posting.
You're not as anonymous as you think you are.
And you're probably not as paranoid as you want us to believe you are, either.
- It's guaranteed that at some point the wrong tags will be delivered to the manufacturer
- Bureaucrats are incapable of believing that the system can ever fail
- Lower echelons do what they are told without thinking.
When the mines get labeled as missiles, the mechanics will just have to try and make them fit under the wings or get charged with insubordination. I don't care what it looks like, soldier, the tag says it's a missile.....Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
So you go to Canada, buy new tires, and are no longer seen as the same car.
It's not much of a secret government plot if
1) Everyone knows that it's possible
2) It can be foiled by changing your tires
s/grit/grits/
I think that the US Military needs to concentrate on identifying planes and tanks. Our friendly fire rate is terrible for as long as IFF has been out. Friendly Fire Insight http://www.msnbc.com/news/889594.asp?cp1=1 IFF Insight http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/air craft/systems/iff.htm
They didn't mention biscuits as being excluded. Chew carefully on any "chocolate chips" or "hazelnuts".
"I only look human.
My mother is a hafling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling"
THAT had to hurt!
Anyone here who's experienced the Army supply line can tell you this could be very useful. Right now most things are barcoded, but that still takes time. The Army needs fast, efficient inventory control as much as Wal-Mart does.
It helps solve a real problem. It's not at all uncommon for deployed units to have to unpack shipping containers just to find out what's inside. Huge hassle for everybody.
There's a constant struggle between the shipping people, who want to fill up every container, and the field logistics people, who want containers to be "single-consignee", so they go opened to the receiving unit. In the civilian world, containers are delivered to warehouses where "bulk-break" and sorting take place. (Visit any major UPS or FedEx location to see such a place.) The military has to do that under field conditions.
There goes making a deal with the supply sergeant after losing some gear.
But think of what we're doing to the soldiers' privacy! Sure, now it's just RFID tags on the crates, but next it'll be RFID tags on every M-16, Stinger missile launcher, and grenade! The government will be able to track each individual soldier and know what they're doing with these weapons! They might even sell this information to third-party arms manufacturers for 'marketing research!'
You are WRONG!!! I alone broke the store 18 months ago.
:s " ... using it as you typed it i find only one article related to the specific vehicle tracking topic I am discussing.
You will not find one post stating it.
The data came FROM me and my posts. The body said "top secret" fact 18 months ago or so. I did not bother changing the body of this post. This post is similar to the way I posted it over 18 months ago.
No one came before I with these facts.
Your memory of people discussing it are from only a few months back. I was the first, and the primary source.
It is still semi-secret and it is newsworthy. Furthermore fed shills using pre-fab accounts do mod it down soon after it is posted making it difficult for others to spot. Its how the fed gov "contains" these things I suspect.
"fits of delusion?" Spot one factual error in my post. There are none. And if you knew how to read and search on internet you can find a lot of information on every topic I cover.
How can I post under a username... i do not believe in them and have never used one on this website. email accts on yahoo.com and hotmail.com are "anonymous" making all anonymous cowards. In fact YOU are an anonymous coward because the way i am using slashdot it says "(email not shown publicly) " for http://slashdot.org/~Animaether/ (your info).
So therefore you are just as much an anonymous coward as I... actually more so because you slander fectladen posts without actually evidently learning from them or followingup with anything relevant except slams about the poor women who lost massive amounts of tissue from hot mcdonalds coffee (medical complications).
your link was near useless by the way. you wrote : "This topic has been passed by on Slashdot time and again
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=tyre%20tag
...it sre will make it easy to local land mines!
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
2 pm eastern... fed shills slammed it with 3 "overrateds" soon it will reach 0 as the last time (AND FIRST TIME) it was posted.
Why? Simple... becuase the feds want this information suppressed.
You say "I shall watch to see what happens to this thread with great interest. "
Well then watch away... watch the stupid comments criticizing it on non-factual points, and watch the article go from a +4 to a 0,1,or -1 as it always has in the past.
the more votes it gets to raise it, the more ammo the fed shill accounts are used to bring it down again.
I wonder how many other anon posts I never get to easily spot on slashdot because ot this method of suppression.
This post is CERTAINLY worth more than the vast majorty of forty five "+2" messages in this thread of only 104 messages.
50% of all the messages in here aat 2 pm E.S.T. are +2 rated but my massive fact laden valuable post will soon be +1 and then probably "0".
Amusing. such a funny little coincidence, eh?
i hate doing quarterly inventory layouts~!
Note how a majority of these conspiracy theories require an enemy of near infinate capacities. Those of us who've working in the government know better.
Aha, but do you work in the shadow government? I didn't think so, fancy pants!
I used to work as a military logistician, and we were doing this all the way back in 1995 during the Haiti intervention and the refugee crisis at Guantanemo Bay.
The Army recongnized the need for RFID all the back in 1990-1991 in Desert Sheild/Desert Storm. Back then they were sitting on thousands of 20 foot and 40 foot shipping containers in Saudi Arabia. But the paperwork was so bad that they couldn't tell what was inside the containers and the database system they used to keep track of shipments was a 1973 vintage punch card system (no really.. it was). So they spent thousands of man-hours opening the boxes and recording the contents and figuring out where it was supposed to go. The actually had a man killed when all the crap fell out on top of him while he was opening up one of the boxes. Meanwhile, forward deployed units were languishing without supplies or spare parts. So they knew they had a problem. The answer was to improve the tracking paperwork with an oracle based system called WPS (WorldWide Port System) and they started doing experimental use of RFID on vehicles and shipping containers. The RFID transmitters were based on the ones used by the railroads and were about the size of a book (approx 8x6x3 in). The were bolted onto the exteriors of the shipping containers and short range transmission towers were built in the ports and at transportation hubs. The first chance to test them in the real-world was the Haiti crisis. All the supplies to GITMO and Haiti were flowing through the port at Jacksonville Florida. The tests were a moderate success (sometimes the tags fell off or data was bogus because somebody was too lazy to key the right values). Overall, the military was very pleased because it finally afford military commanders "Intransit Visibility" or ITV. Commanders were very happy to know where their supplies and equipment was. During the last several years, the tag technology has gotten better and better and they started installing them in vehicles whenever they were deploying.
And then make the parent poster buy me a new keyboard. Mine is covered in coffee.
Thanks, Accenture, for opening the gates to RFIDing of human beings.
"These high-tech barcodes are becoming commonplace if you like it or not."
Yes they are.
"Retailers envision a warehouse where they can figure out the contents of entire pallets of goods without having to scan scores of individual bar codes.
Eventually, they see stores where a customer with a cartload of merchandise could leave the checkout line after one wave of a wireless device. In the aisles, "smart shelves" would recognize when an item is removed and needs restocking or has reached its expiration date.
The technology to make this possible has been around for decades, tracking big-ticket items such as railroad freight and automobiles (think LoJack car security systems).
But the extension of radio frequency identification -- RFID in industry-speak -- to widespread use promises to be one of the most revolutionary developments for retailers since the bar code was introduced in the 1970s.
Vial of microchips
Now Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's most influential retailer, is planning to begin pushing RFID into the mainstream, starting with its biggest suppliers in just more than a year. And where Wal-Mart leads, the retail industry generally follows.
"It's certainly considered the new tool to help trace product through the [distribution] system," said Jean Kinsey, co-director of the Food Industry Center at the University of Minnesota.
The advent of RFID not only is expected to change the way retailers do business but ripple through to their suppliers, the labor force and checkout aisle: Union leaders already worry that RFID could become a job-cutting tool, and privacy advocates fear that consumers one day could have their purchases constantly tracked.
There are plenty of bugs to be worked out before RFID comes to market, including the creation of a standardized identification format similar to the Universal Product Code (UPC) that is used with printed bar codes. A system known as EPC, or Electronic Product Code, is being developed by an industry consortium.
In addition, RFID tags -- which require a microchip to store data and a tiny antenna to transmit the information -- are still too expensive for widespread use.
Nonetheless, the nation's major chains and consumer-product manufacturers are exploring ways to put the technology to work.
'Quantum leaps'
Wal-Mart has been the most vocal about its plans. The giant discounter recently told its 100 largest suppliers to place RFID tags on pallets and cases shipped to Wal-Mart by January 2005. All other Wal-Mart vendors would need to follow suit in 2006.
Wal-Mart might reveal more details of its RFID strategy at a meeting with suppliers next week at its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
The world's biggest retailer already maintains state-of-the-art inventory tracking systems, but it expects this technology to take it to a new level.
"We'll be making some quantum leaps in efficiency," Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams said.
According to a report issued by consulting firm Accenture earlier this year, RFID could help retailers increase sales by as much as 3 percent because of improved store stocking. The report, which had input from technology firms and from Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. Inc., among other chains, also concluded that inventory write-offs because of spoiled and obsolete items could be reduced by as much as 20 percent.
In terms of labor costs, RFID could reduce in-store receiving workforce expenses by as much as 65 percent and stocking expenses by as much as 25 percent, Accenture said.
Those advances will come at a price -- for suppliers as well as the retailers. According to AMR Research Inc. in Boston, it will cost about $20 million a year for a typical supplier to comply with Wal-Mart's RFID plans. Combined, the major consumer-goods manufacturers could spend $2 billion to implement RFID, some observers estimate. And Wal-Mart is known for not letting
My first thought was I would hate to have one of the things on me still while I was on the front lines. While there are probably easier ways to detect a soldier, it's yet another thing you have to worry about masking if you wish to remain stealthy.
I very much hope they have powerful directed scanners to make sure this electronic trash is stripped off before sending anybody out in harm's way, or where an ECM like the what you or others suggested is used against them.
Yow! I'm supposed to have a plan?
Almost. Keep in mind that the device supplying the power need not be the device reading the tag. A small drone plane could send out some fairly strong pulses to power up the RFID chips, while a previously layed down network of readers could detect whatever was tagged (probable identifying criteria: kill anything stupid enough to be tagged).
Yow! I'm supposed to have a plan?
The apparent facts in your post are very interesting. I try not to forget things like this once I read them; only by putting together related facts can we make a rational judgment about the truth.
However...
The general attitude with which you present this information easily dominates the readers' perception of you *and* the information itself. Much of the post is somewhat incoherent, jumping between topics (related topics, but different nonetheless) and occasionally repeating facts. This creates an image of frantic paranoia.
While I believe that you do need to calm down in order to convince others that you speak the truth, I can (on a smaller scale) relate to your situation:
Practically everyone here on Slashdot would agree that legislation like the Patriot Act and programs like TIA are at least very Big-Brother-ish or even blatantly evil. However, when I speak of such things to more 'ordinary' people, I am met with, at best, mild surprise but overall disinterest. The general attitude is "oh, well, that's bad, but what can we do about it?" These are people who only watch the news to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger make jokes about Hummers during the recall debates. In light of these responses, I have stopped discussing such topics except when others bring them up -- and even then, I have to be sure that I don't get worked up about it. Getting too excited makes people stop taking me seriously.
Similarly, I think you need to consider your audience and realize that you are hurting your case until you tone down the language and make an effort to appear more coherent. I would suggest that you not use caps-lock, exclamation points, or cliche phrases like "top secret."
Furthermore, there are statements in your post which are not necessarily fact, although you present them as such. For example, your claim that government agents mod down your posts seems completely unprovable to me. While I cannot say that it is false, it seems to be only your suspicion, not fact. In my opinion, such a statement constitutes excessive paranoia, unlike your healthy concern over the possibility of mandatory tags in all tires in the country.
[Note that healthy concern becomes unhealthy when it dominates your life... unless you are a true resistance fighter, and in that case you would have to be living under something more akin to the Nazi government to justify calling yourself that. I do not claim that the Anglo-American governments will never reach that state, but currently it is not *nearly* that bad, as far as I can tell.]
Thus, your claim of government Slashdot accounts, your suggestion to use google cache or proxies, and your suggestions for removing tag tires seem excessive and unnecessary to me. I (and most readers of Slashdot) have no reason to fear the government's knowledge of our web surfing or driving habits. Those who do have a reason to fear it are hopefully intelligent enough to determine these methods on their own (and I should remind the critics reading this that criminals are not the only ones who need to fear the government).
Lastly, the tendency of your posts to be modded down is most likely due to the problems I have listed here, not government agents.
I hope my post itself is not incoherent, but thankfully, I have run out of things to say....
lets add spycams and bugs to the list too! The politicians are just dumb enough to slip this thru!
You're stealing the ones you tear the tags off of; the only one who will notice them missing is you (or whoever you sell them to). You can put them in a duffle bag and throw them in with the truck full of grenades; it will look like 1200 grenades and it's only 1000. You then take your 200 "surplus" grenades to your friendly neighborhood illegal arms smuggler, and profit!
Why else would you be burying your information in such paranoid rants, if not to promote the stereotype of privacy advocates as delusional conspiracy theorists? Why else would you be accusing everyone else of being a government shill, if not to throw us off your own scent? The Feds may or may not be able to afford an army of secret Slashdot Operatives who maintain moderator status and vigilantly wait to pounce on any attempts to reveal their tire monitoring schemes, but they can certainly afford to pay one or two of you "anonymous cowards" to pop in here from time to time, planting misinformation for the rest of us.
As someone who attended the policy meeting, this actually was discussed and commented on. The general consensus is to focus on passive tags due to those cost factors. For items which are extremely cheap, the next-higher packaging will probably be what is tagged.
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Yes, it is know (I would even go as far to say "feared") that it is wasteful to put a $20 tag on a $5 resource. Have a little more faith than that
I sent this in to Slashdot a while ago (the article was first on Computerworld) and it wasn't accepted.