Can you detail which pieces of Cryptonomicon's WWII history is factual and which are fiction? How much of the team that did information hiding (leaking the code books so as to have a legitimate reason to change codes) was real?
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Or you're going to get over your desire for privacy. Interestingly, if every object has these RFID tags embedded, there's going to be a lot of stuff that was previously unwatchable. Think of a group of soldiers moving in secret. If one of them gets a package from home, or picks up something at a local store, suddenly the group is trackable. Similarly for any FBI, CIA or other TLA operative. If anyone, these groups included, want to maintain privacy then there will have to be a bulk method for stripping out these devices. The government groups that need privacy extend from the extreme black ops to local cops. Since a group as far down the technology food chain as the local police station will need this tech, I suspect it will be generally publically available.
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Can you detail which pieces of Cryptonomicon's WWII history is factual and which are fiction? How much of the team that did information hiding (leaking the code books so as to have a legitimate reason to change codes) was real?
Or you're going to get over your desire for privacy. Interestingly, if every object has these RFID tags embedded, there's going to be a lot of stuff that was previously unwatchable. Think of a group of soldiers moving in secret. If one of them gets a package from home, or picks up something at a local store, suddenly the group is trackable. Similarly for any FBI, CIA or other TLA operative. If anyone, these groups included, want to maintain privacy then there will have to be a bulk method for stripping out these devices. The government groups that need privacy extend from the extreme black ops to local cops. Since a group as far down the technology food chain as the local police station will need this tech, I suspect it will be generally publically available.