I have been living and working here in Osaka for ten years and throughout that time have yet to find a government group that does anything "cheap". Everything is done as a "marunage" which means jacking up the price by hiring a company which hires a company which hires a company to do the work. Most likely most of the work for this will happen in China. I worked at a company that sold the equivalent of an 80 dollar US...it won't be trustworthy.
because the government will make sure there are all kinds of neat little "secret" ways to get access. That is to say the committee in charge of security will most likely have lots of LDP party members who have never touched a computer involved and they will be saying things like "now, its gonna be used by the government workers and the public be so we gotta be able to have remote root access!"
after i went and got that registration crap finished at NYT it occurred to me that I completed the registration crap over at slashdot too and as I read the NYT a lot after having gotten the reg over with as of late i find most of the NYT news replayed over here WTF, maybe i'll just stick to NYT (at least they tell you what AO is )
some smart people getting together and developing a way to jam the signals on these things? I could see my self being very happy to carry a pocket radio sized device into walmart or benneton and creating a nice damping field around me while I walk... must be possible right? or for that matter what about scramblers? that would be nice, you could, say oh i don't know, have a scanner that picked up the prices for a bag of M&Ms and then broadcast that price to the register as you walk by with your RFID debit card while you push out your cart full of $300 walmart desktops. Well, that would be stealing but I think its kind of silly how a lot of technological advances like this really make it sooooo easy to get away with *evil*...
Its amazing how insecure so many "security" complexes are. Here in Japan I recently, as part of my job, had to go to a NIC for the western Japan power company - really cool place - wall sized doors that slide open based on a magnetic card system. Brain dead part? No check on me when I forgot the card in the parking lot and managed to walk all the way into the "core" area (Cisco 7500 and racks o' Sun) by following an employee of the company. No cameras either. And, boy do I stand out (Hiya Whitey!)
anyway, this just seems like another example of humans forgetting about stupidity
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....it won't be inexpensive.
...it won't be trustworthy.
I have been living and working here in Osaka for ten years and throughout that time have yet to find a government group that does anything "cheap". Everything is done as a "marunage" which means jacking up the price by hiring a company which hires a company which hires a company to do the work. Most likely most of the work for this will happen in China. I worked at a company that sold the equivalent of an 80 dollar US
because the government will make sure there are all kinds of neat little "secret" ways to get access. That is to say the committee in charge of security will most likely have lots of LDP party members who have never touched a computer involved and they will be saying things like "now, its gonna be used by the government workers and the public be so we gotta be able to have remote root access!"
Sound familiar to anybody?
after i went and got that registration crap finished at NYT it occurred to me that I completed the registration crap over at slashdot too and as I read the NYT a lot after having gotten the reg over with as of late i find most of the NYT news replayed over here
WTF, maybe i'll just stick to NYT (at least they tell you what AO is )
Sig Shmig
some smart people getting together and developing a way to jam the signals on these things? I could see my self being very happy to carry a pocket radio sized device into walmart or benneton and creating a nice damping field around me while I walk... must be possible right? or for that matter what about scramblers? that would be nice, you could, say oh i don't know, have a scanner that picked up the prices for a bag of M&Ms and then broadcast that price to the register as you walk by with your RFID debit card while you push out your cart full of $300 walmart desktops.
Well, that would be stealing but I think its kind of silly how a lot of technological advances like this really make it sooooo easy to get away with *evil*...
Its amazing how insecure so many "security" complexes are. Here in Japan I recently, as part of my job, had to go to a NIC for the western Japan power company - really cool place - wall sized doors that slide open based on a magnetic card system. Brain dead part? No check on me when I forgot the card in the parking lot and managed to walk all the way into the "core" area (Cisco 7500 and racks o' Sun) by following an employee of the company. No cameras either. And, boy do I stand out (Hiya Whitey!)
anyway, this just seems like another example of humans forgetting about stupidity
would be a great place to try these out.
/. readers!)
I hear that the Bush administration might
have some use for them.
Figure these babies would have about as much
chance hitting an incoming missile as anything
else.
aside: Some people have an amazing amount of free time. (kind a like