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The Trouble with RFID

Posted by michael on from the preaching-to-the-choir dept.

wintermute42 writes "Simson Garfinkel, author of Practical Unix & Internet Security along with Gene Spafford and Alan Schwartz, has an article in The Nation on RFID tags. They're not just for tracking stuff. They can track you too."

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  1. rip off the tags by oohp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So rip off the tags! I rip off tags from T-Shirts anyway as they itch at the back of my neck. Hmm I also bet that if you wrap them in tin foil nobody will be able to scan them. Electromagnetic fields cannot travel into a tin foil closed cavity.