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Hacking the RFID Network
An anonymous reader writes "The world's largest retailers are developing the EPC Network as the infrastructure for a global rollout of item-level RFID. In many ways this 'Internet of Things' resembles the ISBN system or CueCat's codes-to-content. But the network built for tracking consumer goods could also be used for intangible items: airline seats, music tracks or service calls."
I can track my porn collection internationally?
I knew they could be used as flotation devices- but now they're apparently virtual as well. That explains the problem with overselling flights I guess. They're selling VAPORSEATS (tm) (Patent Pending)
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
at least someone will be able to find my remote control
-ninjaneer
"err sir ... you appear to be stealing an elephant from our store .... err um please turn out your pockets ... wait I was wrong you appear to be carrying the entire housewares department ..."
I propose we begin tagging RFID tags with RFID tags, and feed the data into a meta-tracking database.
why on earth should airline seats be intangible? last time I sat in one it wasn't. I further imagine that the seats not get lost too often and therefore do not need to be tracked..... This whole idea is just nonsense...
simply dictate where you send your products and keep the consumer in one place, like a vat of amneotic fluid. Come to think of it, all those carbon based units churning out 100W of heat and only using less than 10% of their processing power...
Imagine a super beowulf cluster of those...
Er wait...
My hyperlinks aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Fortunately, pedophilia and rape fantasies are practically unheard of in Japan.
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
As long as we can continue to obtain rolls of aluminum foil without RFID tags, we should be good to go.
We can only hope. Having these things in an Access databse will be the only way to save our privacy.
The requirement for shirt, shoes and a minimum age of 18 to be served alcohol.
No need to shoplift OUT of the store -- walk in and start tossing rfid emiters in coat pockets, bags of socks, other shoppers' carts .....
Overwhelm the system and it becomes useless.
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Imagine driving through the truck stop, or rail yard, 'asking' each truck/car what it's carrying. You can then take only what is of the most value to you.