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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. The sky is falling by stanmann · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone standing within 2 feet of me can scan any RFID tags I might have acquired and might be able to determine that I am wearing khakis and have an ID card in my wallet.

    --
    Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
  2. Re:Tracking? No, more like targetting! by morelife · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're thinking about this all wrong. Take off your tin-foil hats, nobody really wants to 'track' you.

    It's blind trust of the government and corporations, and naievete such as yours, which has lost hundreds of American lives in Iraq. Which parts of the Patriot Act do you like? All of it??

  3. In the words of Cartman... by Jim+Morash · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... what's the big fuckin' deal, bitch?

    Does anyone have a plausible scenario for abuse of this technology, or is it just kneejerk defense of "privacy"?