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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. Just how intangible .. by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    .. Are Japanese school children anyway? (Japan school kids to be tagged with RFID chips) Just wait until a stalker hacks that RFID network!

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  2. A good use for existing RFID tags by Alaska+Jack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's my understanding that a common practice these days is to have microships (which I assume to be RFID tags) injected under the skin of pets, so lost pets can be identified even if they're not wearing collars.

    I think a good idea would be to make pet doors that can "learn" to unlock only when certain RFID tags are within 4 or five feet. You could set it for the pets you own, and other pets (and/or other critters) wouldn't be able to get in.

    Also, if your pets didn't have the chips implanted, you could just get a chip on a collar.

    Alaska Jack