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Hacking the RFID Network

Posted by michael on from the ubiquitous-tracking dept.

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."

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  1. So this means.... by mboverload · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can track my porn collection internationally?

  2. Airline seats are intangible? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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)

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  3. FINALLY by surreal-maitland · · Score: 4, Funny

    at least someone will be able to find my remote control

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    1. Re:FINALLY by shut_up_man · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey, I'm looking forward to be able to type "grep socks".

  4. So what happens .... by taniwha · · Score: 5, Funny
    if I make my own RFID object that pretends to be other stuff .... maybe lots of other stuff ..... ?

    "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 ..."

  5. Re:Sounds like they're working by Qrlx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I propose we begin tagging RFID tags with RFID tags, and feed the data into a meta-tracking database.

  6. Instead of RFID tracking everything why not.. by Tandoori+Haggis · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

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  7. Re:Just how intangible .. by character_assassin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fortunately, pedophilia and rape fantasies are practically unheard of in Japan.

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  8. Re:And no doubt, trackable. by AnodeCathode · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as we can continue to obtain rolls of aluminum foil without RFID tags, we should be good to go.