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Why One Man Got a Guerrilla RFID Implant
Shannon writes "One of my writers just did an interview with Amal Graafstra, who just had an RFID implant put in his hand and has been building appliances for it to simplify and automate his life... "I guess I have my own Big Brother paranoia. Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't.""
So I guess this guy just doesn't take his hand with him if he doesn't want to be tracked?
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So he has traded something unique and personal for something that can be read at a distance, copied and used freely by others. What is the advantage exactly?
the store detectives in walmart keep stopping him because they think he registers as a case of beer.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of
Hahaha! So you think - until it becomes absolutely mandatory and illegal for you to remove them.
Or -- imagine -- systems which would just not function without an RFID implant, or harm you if you do not have one.
What would you do then?
Get over it, you're slowly losing all the privacy you once had. It's one of the prices we are paying for certain advancements (and obvious advantages).
Whether or not you choose to have them - that would be your choice, at the moment. However, you really may not have the ability to make that choice a while from now.
Instead of going with a permanent implant, why not just get a stylish gold ring or watch or other thing with an RFID chip? I never take off my watch so it would give me almost the same functionality. Or maybe a false fingernail or something that is semipermament. This allows me to opt out without having to cut myself open.
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If it's easy to opt out of a system of identification, then no one who is serious will use that system. If your gov't wants to track your movements (or whatever you think you're up against) they're not going to use easily-circumvented RFIDs, they'll use biometrics.
But that's what plastic surgery is for, isn't it?
Now, I didn't read the article, but it seems to me that using a lesser of two evils argument isn't always the answer. Sometimes the right answer is just "no".
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Until someone catches your RFID tag info, and steals your identity.....again.
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Ideal for people that rather have their hand cut off and being stolen instead of only being stolen.
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Q: can't they track you?!
A: no. the read range is only 2 inches max. even with a high powered reader, the chip itself does not have the capability to transmit farther than a couple inches tops. this makes it very difficult to scan my RFID chip without me noticing, and it's definitely not possible to scan it just by me walking by a sensor or something. It has to be pretty deliberate.
Q: what about GPS?!
A: no. there is currently no implantable GPS technology. none. there are very oversized watches you can wear that do support GPS tracking, but they look like a dick tracy watch on steroids.
Q: is all your information on there?!
A: no. as stated above, there is only an 8 character unique code.. like 48e9s18f for example. the chip is read-only (you can't change the data on it) and what it does or what that string of characters means depends on what system is scanning it. the system I'm creating will use that string to ID me and let me in my house, my car, or log me into my computer. if you have your cats or dogs tagged with a chip, they too only carry a unique code, and the animal's information is stored in a central database. hospitals are looking to use this technology in the arms of people to link a person's ID with their medical records in the computer system. The medical data won't, at this time, be stored on the chip itself as many fear.
Q: are you crazy?!
A: sure, why not.
Q: what about the mark of the beast!?
A: well, last time I checked, this chip wasn't required, I won't be killed for not having one, I don't need it to buy/sell things, and with billions of unique ID codes (numbers and letters), I don't see how each unique code could be calculated in some way to 666. bottom line, if this ever becomes an oppressive technology, required by some government, I can simply take it out.
- Revelation 13:16 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.
- Revelation 13:17 - And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
- Revelation 13:18 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)
Q: how big is the implant?
A: it's 12mm long by 2mm in diameter.
Q: why the hand, and your left hand to boot?
A: well, I reach for my car door handle with my left hand, and I can get used to opening my front door with my left as well. plus, being right handed, my left hand is far less likely to get crushed, mutilated, or otherwise damaged... and I'm sure granules of crushed glass, silicon, and other metals could cause health complications, aside from having a crushed hand.
Q: did you do it yourself?
A: hell no. a client of mine is a doctor and we traded services.
Q: is this a hoax?
A: come on, I have better things to do than make things up. Here's a quick video I took with my crappy pentax digital camera, showing basic operation. A friend converted it to a much smaller standard QuickTime file for me. Here's a large, high res picture of the implant site as of 03-24-2005 4:00pm PST.
Q: I have questions, how can I contact you?
A: you have to pass a test first. don't worry, it's easy. take the domain name of this website, remove the top level domain, replace the period with an @ sign, then type the name of the greek god of dreams, followed by the letters "inc", and then place a period and the letters "com". if you can figure that out, you pass the test.
Hahaha when RFID implants are a normal occurance, I, for one, can't wait for the RFID Sniper Rifle
Deliver a SHOCKING suprise up to 500 feet away! Fun for the whole family
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If you can opt out by removing the RFID device (perhaps with a knife) the your identity can be too easily stolen (perhaps with a knife).
On the other hand If you use something insintric, like DNA, and your identity gets stolen, you can't replace it. (Ways and methods of stealing a DNA based identity is left as an excercise for the reader)
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I've been thinking about that actually. It could be cool to have teh house "recognize" its owner and automatically tuirn on and off lighting and heat and alarms and stuff. and unlock doors.
Lots of cool appliances.
Now I just need an RFID tag, and that "do it yourself surgeon" kit.
I hate that guys are getting implants. Sure, they look good, but they feel hard as rocks!
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Hopefully he's not using one of those 40-bit Texas Instruments RFID modules that was cracked recently. Nothing like having some 5cr1pt k1dd13z pwn1ng your entire self...
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Once Walmart has implemented its RFID protocol, Amal better hope that his ID doesn't overlap with what they're using.
"Thanks for shopping at Walmart. Um, my system shows that you have a toaster oven in your shirt?"
Yeah, all this nonsense about freedom and autonomy and choice and privacy is whack.
May as well metaphorically roll over on your back and piss on yourself in the face of Big Brother now and get to feel all cool about being an early adopter.
I know, let's ditch human dignity altogether and get a big ol' cattle tag clamped on our ears! Let people know whose herd you belong to!
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When I think "electronic implant" and "opt-out," I think Tripods. Remember the part where they have to cut an implant out of the kid's armpit without any anaesthetic?
Instead of SSN's (here in the States, as most of Americans, I'm ingorant of the rest of the world) I've always thought we should all be assigned a GUID at birth. If you can't remember it, well, you're screwed. Mine just happens to be:
{EDB6154D-43E6-4707-B453-5FAB334B968E}
With it being globally unique (theoretically), it would be nearly impossible to memorize anyone's other than yourself (I struggle to remember my wife's SSN). So when the identity thief goes to the dealership to buy a car with your id, when they can't recite the GUID assigned to you, they are instantly arrested and displayed hanging from their toenails in the town square for all to see.
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The tags themselves are so small that eyeballs are not a substitute for an RF scanner.
This, of course, assumes that the 3rd party RFID tags are designed to spec and will die when you send the kill command.
Even then, you have no way of knowing if your kill switch actually worked, or if the tag is hibernating & waiting for the right code to wake it up.
There's paranoia and then there's practical paranoia.
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Real men get RFID tags that explode when they hit oxygen...
Right. Just like Social Security.
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I understand the privacy watchdogs being concerned about stuff like this. But it amazes me that I don't hear more complaints from Christians. What with some of them claiming Judgement day is near, and soon we're all going to have the mark of the beast on our hand without which we can't buy stuff, fly or do just about anything else. Maybe I'm just not paying attention.
As for the article, the whole thing does seem pretty cool. And he talks about how it only has a range of a couple of inches, making it hard for someone to scan his info without his say so. That's a bit more reassuring. But then it also makes it hard to do all the cool stuff we see in the ads like pick up items in a store and then just walk out as your tag gets scanned.
There should be some kind of flap that blocks a scan, like a mini-faraday cage, that you can easily cover it with. Then we could get these things with long range, but still feel secure.
would be to microwave your hand. Don't do it too long though.
From his site:
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Q: what about the mark of the beast!?
A: well, last time I checked, this chip wasn't required, I won't be killed for not having one, I don't need it to buy/sell things, and with billions of unique ID codes (numbers and letters), I don't see how each unique code could be calculated in some way to 666. bottom line, if this ever becomes an oppressive technology, required by some government, I can simply take it out.
- Revelation 13:16 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.
- Revelation 13:17 - And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
- Revelation 13:18 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)
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<nit pic>That book of the Bible is called The Revelation of St. John. No plural.</nit pic>
"Given the choice of Orwellian societies,..."
Personally, I think I'd rather be part of the contingent that storms congress with an AK-47s then let it come to chips implanted in people's hands. Don't forget the 4th box of liberty. This guy is fubared. What's his statement? I'm gonna bend over now just in case my cellmate is gay?
"I only speak the truth"
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For $2 you can defeat the most expensivie and sophisticated facial recognition systems available.
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And of course, if it wasn't your car/house, laser beams would shoot out of the sensor.
Don't you mean "laser" beams?
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but I have to say it strikes as, well, stupid to think that you can "opt out" of having somebdoy read something that is implanted in your body and has absolutely no built in security measures at all.
Saying the read range is only two inches is to count on two things: (1) that the guys who might want to read your implant without your knowledge don't have access to better technology than you do and (2) they aren't clever enough to plant the reader where you will trigger it and won't notice.
The guy almost has the right idea though. An important quality of a system, if it is to have privacy, is the ability to know when you are being scanned and potentially tracked. This is why biometric face recognition systems, which are advocated by some people on the right, are actually much more dangerous than a national ID card, which is anethema.
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Just grow a gigantic mustache/beard. Wear oversized glasses. Basically, wear a disguise. If you're running from the law (or need to exist on the outskirts of society) then you should have a good disguise handy already.
Personally, I'd rather put on a disguise whenever I needed to leave my mountain hideout and come into the city than walk around with an obvious scar/missing digit from having to cut out my implant.
DNA printing is more troubling, but having real-time alerts based on DNA ID would be very tricky. Unless Big Brother requires us all to use DNA as a universal ID for ATMs/Travel/Medical treatment. In which case I for one welcome our...blah, blah, blah.
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It's a joke that came up after the '04 elections. http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2004/11/a_mode st_propos.html
so now thugs are going to cut off my hand instead of just taking my wallet
I thought the point of an Orwellian society is that you can't opt out of it.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
I can't wait for the Xtreeeme subculture to embrace RFID. When future edgedwellers enter a room, all the phones will light up with their tattoo of the day. Nothing so temporary as a permanent solution.
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Why does it have to be an implant? Can't it be wearable? I don't want to implant my kid, but if they have a tracking chip imbedded in their belt and shoes isn't that going to satisfy 99% of the need to have a tracking chip?
The chip send an alarm back if breathing stops, the belt and/or shoes are removed. Why can't adults be the same way? If I leave the house without my chipped belt I can't get money from the ATM, how is that different from me forgetting my card?
Why does it always have to be an implant? Not a bracelet, necklace, belt insert, shoe insert, ring...
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You know what? he should have gotten the tag implanted in his p*nis: can you imagine the look on his neighbours' face when he sticks his peepee in the keyhole to open your door? That'd be priceless...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Maybe he really is from the futar!
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> ...an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt
> out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial
> recognition, well, isn't.
Don't assume that just because they want to put an RFID tag in you they are not going to also use DNA and facial recognition (if they ever get it to work).
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Yep, and instead of car thieves breaking into your house and stealing the keys to your expensive car, they will hack your hand off.
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Is that comment about "Orweillian" socities in the article summary? Seems like it was just flamebait to get everyone riled up about RFID.
Its just a neat project about a lazy man making life easier for himself.
But it would also make identity theft not as painful.
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it replaced the need for keys for your car
What happens if you need to loan somebody your vehicle?
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Let's remember that the hebrew letters for "Nero Caesar" (NRWN QSR) sum 50+200+6+50+100+60+200=666.
Some interpretations say that the Latin name "Neron Caesar" also sums 666.
So please, ask a Bible scholar before jumping up to conclusions.
It's funny, you know... how people let tend to believe rumours and conspiracy theories, when they should be working on helping the poor and feeding the hungry (Hellooooo, Matthew 25 anyone?)
Well, that's great, Amal. Thanks for sharing that with us.
I can see it now...Outbreak 2.0 co-starring Ebola and a new Downloader variant.
You could just put your RFID device on a bracelet made from a bicycle chain.
If you want to remove it, you'll need a chain breaking tool, so it's difficult enough to remove by someone who would steal it, and easy enough to remove if you want to "opt out".
You can even add or remove links if you gain/lose weight.
Just give them your hand or foot.
Read at a distance? If you RTFA, you'll find that the thing is only readable within a range of about 1.5 inches. That's closer than you need to get to read a driver's license, hopefully.
If you seriously consider an inch and a half to be a length that is anything other than "purely insignificant", please pass my condolences on to your wife or girlfriend, if any.
I do not want my finger prints on file
I do not want my DNA stored for even a short while
I would not could not install an RFID
Mr anonynimity, that's me!
So when the identity thief goes to the dealership to buy a car with your id, when they can't recite the GUID assigned to you, they are instantly arrested and displayed hanging from their toenails in the town square for all to see.
:-)
Have you ever mistyped your password? Would you like to be arrested if you did?
What if the buyer is sick the day he goes to make payment on your car? What he's hungover? What if he's getting old, and his memories are fading? What if she's got dislexia, and can't visualize numbers, let alone memorize them?
With it being globally unique (theoretically), it would be nearly impossible to memorize anyone's other than yourself
You define "nearly impossible" differently than I do.
If you ask most people if they can memorize ten digit numbers, they say "no". If you ask them their best friends phone number, they rattle it off without thinking. People with a vested interest can write down and then memorize darn near anything. After all, you learned to memorize your number. Why can't someone else?
What's to stop, say, the car dealer from keeping a copy of your global identifier (say, he's got a tape recorder in his pocket when you say it out loud), and then buying a vacation to Cuba with your identity?
The answer is, of course, not much.
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That's answered pretty early in the article, actually.
I'm guessing that it's not so frequent when he goes somewhere and accidentally leaves his left hand behind.
Is that where everyone sits on those long, low couches listening to mildly disturbing music and complaining about the stench?
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I carry the card key to the computer rooms in my wallet. I like the look on people's faces when I wave my ass at the door and it unlocks.
I wish my left hand could run Linux.
I have heard that argument many times to all types of biometrics, and RFID identification. But seriously, hacking limbs off is something much less people would do than stealing a couple of keys. So you have drastically reduced chanse of crime.
Not to mention they must have the opportunity to do so, which also is less likely than the opportunity to swipe some keys.
So in the end, this is not likely to happen. Especially with RFID tags. If anyone was this set on getting yur stuff, they would most likely just knock you out and drag you to the door, or perhaps cut out the chip. Either way, not much harm done.
Tin-foil gloves!
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Parables.
Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't.
We're already living in an Orwellian society. The war is over, we lost. All it took was two smoking ruins for everyone to freely give over their rights to the government in the name of safety. You really think they can't trace you NOW? LOL, besides, why should we make it easier? I already got a face, I already got DNA, why give them something else to track me by?
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Well, as the initial designer of the Exxon Speedpass system, I can tell ya' that he is an idiot.
The problem with those dinky ones is that if they don't have an encrypted code, it doesn't take much to steal his identity (heh). Even at two inches, think how many things you put your hands on in a day. Sheesh!
BUT skipping all of that, let us assume we have hundreds, nay, THOUSANDS of these dumbass 125 Khz transceivers out there - with the Exxon solution we have a MINIMUM distance of one vehicle. Not much problem of interference there. But when you start packing them in, BOY yer going to have a freaking mess.
RFID works for some things, but as a "national id" it will royally suck. Hell, just ask people that have RFID in their keys and get an Exxon Speedpass (hint: they interfere with each other).
But then I've always believed that if someone built a better mousetrap the majority would still use the older and crappier one...
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Why not wire a pair of gloves to detect RFID and record all the unique IDs of the people you shake hands with? Then later when you get home put it on your nifty Dart gun and shoot at some door knobs.
You have been warned.
How do you close the door on the microwave oven with your hand still inside?
"You know what? he should have gotten the tag implanted in his p*nis: can you imagine the look on his neighbours' face when he sticks his peepee in the keyhole to open your door? That'd be priceless..."
If it's his neighbors' reaction he's after, he doesn't need the RFID.
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"I guess I have my own Big Brother paranoia. Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't."
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How long will we be able to opt out of it? I probably have one in my shirt now, a few in my car, some in my food, etc.
This is the same kind of shit that has us in the state we are currently in, people see the potential abuse of a technology and continue to use it (and push it to the mainstream) until the shit hits the fan, then everyone has a negative opinion.
I remember back in 2001 when people were calling for RFID & Biometric data to be stored on Passports, Drivers Licenses, etc.. The gov said by 2010 we would probably have it mandantory on passports.. Every year they make the mandantory date closer and closer, last I heard the end of this year it will be the default.
I opened up a old IBM 300GL the other day, id say it was from around 97 / 98, maybe older. So right behind the front plastic of the case I see this odd thing that appears to be an 'external' cmos battery velcro'd onto the case.. After looking around another second or two I realize that it can't be a battery, so I do some hard searching. Turns out its an undocumented RFID antenna, mentioned nowhere on IBMs website. Those things are still somewhat expensive, so why the hell did they include them on a computer from 97 without even plastering huge stickers all over the case boasting how much you need it?
This may all sound a little too paranoid, but in my opinion RFID is the worse thing to happen to this planet since monsanto.
Isn't it odd, that the United States doesn't even own the Federal Reserve? Isn't it even odder that all the new money has RFID chips in em?
My boss bought a new mercedes the other day, while he was test driving it I was inside talking to one of the sales reps. He was telling me about all the crazys that show up there to test drive a car and end up trying to run off with it, from what he said the cars are all tracked by RFID, they can alert the cops when the car gets X miles away and the cops can apparently track down the car via RFID. Wonder how long that's been a standard option, hell the car companies didn't even admit to the 'black box' til about what, a year ago in that canada court case? Anyway... later.
from TFA. This guy went ahead and implanted this chip in his hand surgicaly, but does not have any of the systems installed in his home or car for its intended purpose.
Maybe its just me, but I would have had all of that stuff in place and functioning before taking the final step of surgery, all be it minor.
Didn't anybody catch the blurb in Wired last year about Ibiza clubbers getting implants to automatically pay for drinks? I can't believe how premature this guy is; I mean he has less security than a garage door opener now. I'd opt for and iButton ring or something first.
We have that technology now. It's called a Common Access Card (CAC) or smart card. Hasn't seen much adoption outside the military yet.
Here is how you should have said it:
Buying the RFID tag 5 bucks.
Having a surgery to implant it 15000.
look on your neighbours face when you stick your penis in the keyhole to open your door - priceless
You can't handle the truth.
it replaced the need for keys for your car What happens if you need to loan somebody your vehicle? People will stop asking to borrow his car, when they find out they have to get one of those implants. :)
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You need Valid Current Photo ID to open a bank account, RIDE THE GREYHOUND, fly, get into bars, etc, etc. The banks USED to accept bills or a social security card (or both) as proof of ID; Greyhound was even easier to deal with.
I let my license expire in '99 and had to get a fresh state ID in mid 2k4- not having Valid ID had become such massive inconvenience that it was more hassle to not have one than it was to just Get It Over With.
My wonderful childhood memories are screaming at this one. No scanning without your knowledge leads me to think the life that follows implantation consists of..
"STOP TOUCHING ME!!QUIT IT!!STOP TOUCHING ME!!"
and if I recall...
"MOM, HE'S TOUCHING ME!!"
Don't live in the past.
Isn't the point of an Orwellian society that you don't really get to opt-out because conformance is required?
How can you opt out of a system which would be expanded to enforce security, money, identification for benefits etc. allowing you to do nothing without it?
The poster could have instead just said "given the choice between Orwellian societies I would rather live in a cave on a beach and my volleyball friend".
Neko
What is the ID SNIPER rifle?
It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.
I just have a couple of offtopic nitpicks, mods please feel free to label as such.
First, it's Korben Dallas (not Korbin).
Second, it's Leeloo (not Leelu).
And thirdly, just to show how truly geeky my wife and I are, we named our son Korben. :)
I'll email him and ask him, but: Where can you buy tiny RFID chips & inexpensive readers like this?
No, I don't want to implant one in my hand. However, implanting one in a ring or a watch would be cool.
Call me a cockeyed optimist but I'm not too worried, at least not about the Government enforcing RFID. Anything they field can easily be defeated, if history is any teacher. Here are my thoughs on some of the issues brought up: 1) "you can't opt out" - Yes you can, you can have the thing removed or destroyed. Even if the government said it's against the law to do so doesn't make it technicly imposible to do. And if enough people do it, it gets to be unenforceable. You can't opt out of DNA and while facial recognition software is easy to defeat it's way too costly to permently change your face. I'm more worried about the general economy addopting it, as some posters have alluded too. I don't think the Gov will mandate it, not sure they could anyway, our paper money say "legal tender for all depts public and private" so by law they probably have to supply it but there may be some businesses that will become "electronic transactions only" outlets but major stores will probably still take cash. Even in a worst case where you can't get by with out an RFID (which will only happen if better encryption can be implemented) it'll be business's that'll drive it and not the Gov. And I can only guess at the black/grey markets that'll popup with anonymous/fake RFIDs, it'll be a brave new world. 2)Why not wearable instead? - This has been covered pretty good by others but it boils down to if you wear it, it can be stolen/lost. Some folks, possibly as jokes, mention the cutting off of his hand to seal his ID; not an easy thing to do, most folks would easliy give up their watch/rings/wallets but would fight rather hard to keep their hand. 3) Its unencrypted - The author understands that, he even understans that the 40bit encrypted ones have been cracked already. He mentions some form of 2 factor authentication on some critical operations, such as open a door, but that's not needed when turning on a light. And I agree that even a 1 to 2 inch read limit is of little protection against theft, Credit cards require the target to remove them from their wallet and make physical contact with a reader (to get the info off the magnetic strip) but that's an easyenough crime to commt, scanning a hand should be no problem. Thougth we might see a surge in sales of wire mesh gloves for blocking this. 4) We already are being tracked by RFID in cloths and other products - Partly true, but it's a very iffy way of doing it. WalMart has hundreds of shirts in stock to be able to track my shirt and associate it with me would take the updating of possibly dozens of databases, not an easy thing to do (the IRS has been working for 20 years to try and get computerized and they still can't get it right and they only have one DB) In conclution: RFID, DNA, Facial Recongnition, federal ID cards all of these are useless for near 100% identification purposes (DNA comes nearest but is nowhere near realtime) so other than a token effort by the government I am not too worried. They'll pass it, it'll be a major headache for a few months/years then it'll go away (congress has a notorisly short attention span and when the next new birght shiny object comes into view they'll forget all about it). P.S. One poster mentioned everyone getting an GUID at birth, I go one further, I think we should all get a 48 bit Mac address at birth so that when the IPv6 enabled RFIDs come out we can jack in right away.
it already has been thought of.
Just hope nobody steals it from you.
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Marco!...
What color is the sky in your world? People stopped using ethics long ago. Very few of us are left that even bother to follow a code of ethics. We are made fun of for doing so.
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...there's two r's in Guerrilla. How stupid do I feel!?
If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
however, I am more concerned about people stealing my RFID code from the machines that read RFID tags. Those do not have a two inch range, and wirelessly transmit the code to a computer located elsewhere. All someone has to do is break into one of these devices to find the log of the RFID codes that are used, and then pick one to use for whatever reason they want to use them for.
I mean the RFID code is not encrypted, and it is only 8 bytes long. That is eight characters, and people can make a device that uses brute force to run through all possible combinations of 8 characters until one of them triggers a lock to open, etc, or perhaps from a list of RFID codes stolen from a nearby system they broke into and stole the codes from.
RFID codes can be stolen from RFID readers to use in passports, if passports contain an RFID chip. Who would think a passport is fake if the RFID code matches a list on a computer somewhere that someone stole the codes from?
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While this might be somewhat off-topic:
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when I read guerilla RFID, I thought of building your own device that sends out RFID signals to mess with some system.
For instance you might read in the RFID tags of everything you buy, but slightly change the tags. If the encoding is known, you might even vary and multiply them. The next time you enter a store, the device could send out that you went shopping there for the last 100 years, buy 100 pounds of ammunition every week, female hygiene products, and childrens' books, or something weird like that. Or you "tell" the store that you are entering the store with RFID tags of everything they sell inside right now
provided it was only used to quietly trigger my guard robot to fry people with a plasma cannon...
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Unless RFID monitors bodily functions from the inside, I can't possibly see the advantage from this that he couldn't just have by wearing a tag on his ring finger. Or if he's not married, on the opposite side. If he wants to never take it off, then never take it off. Implanting it, would only be good for animals or if you couldn't take it out.
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I am in no way affiliated with this sig.
What's he going to do when the battery runs out? Ouch. Better work fast with creating his funky devices before it does...
I'm waiting for one-way implantable satelite radios. In a bad situation? *Insert Regime Here* secret police captured you and confiscated your laptop? All you need is a sharp knife and a local anathetic. And, in a pinch, you could do without the sharp knife or the anathetic. Hey, if it's your own government who's captured you you could at least upload your dying words to your dynDNS webserver (you DO have rsynch'd offsite offshore daily backups, right?)
(Mostly from Nancy Kress' "Beggars and Choosers")
I think he's a couple cans short of a six-pack.
My other first post is car post.
You mean... You mean I could combine one of my favorite pastimes with the practical use of actually being able to open the door that way? Technology sure is swell...
That's the mark of the beast... You can't accept it or you will burn in hell forever. Jesus foresaw it. He said that when the end of days approaches, the antichrist will set it up so everyone will have to get the mark of the beast in his hand or his forehead. If you opt out, you will not be able to buy anything, go anywhere, etc. You will be stuck living like in the middle ages.
They'll market it to everyone like it's such a good idea... Like it's so convenient. No identity theft. No lost children. No more carrying around a wallet or change. In fact, there won't be any more paper or coin money. And it will allow "them" to track criminals... rapists, sex offenders. It's so convenient, they'll argue, so why don't you want to get it? Only criminals, they'll argue, will refuse the mark of the beast. Criminals and religious fanatics.
As it is, religion is on its way out the door. They're taking the Ten Commandments down from everywhere. They're getting rid of the cross. The ACLU, all kinds of organizations that claim to be good. And when the mark of the beast becomes mandatory from a practical perspective, because you'll be unable to buy food, or pay for anything without it, you'll be an outcast... Either a criminal or a religious nutcase.
Jesus said, "Another will come in my name and him you will receive."
Biometrics aren't that bad when you consider it. But the mark of the beast... only if you do not accept it will you survive the end of days.
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Would only work if he used his left hand to shake hands.
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
Eduardo Kac, artist ahead of his time: http://www.ekac.org/timcap.html
To see the potiential down fall of this in future applications checkout the Isreali study.
http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/052.pdf