But I think they should come out with the W version. You could dodge the draft, find various beurocratic tricks to avoid active duty and then convince daddy to ensure you still have an honorable discharge several months after you have already left the state.
Concerning expensive RFID tag applications like public tranport prepaid accounts, this could be a problem. More expensive crypto tags solve that problem.
Concerning stores, this is stupid. Retailers don't need expensive reprogrammable tags and don't use them. Cheap tags are just a unique ID number which can't be changed. Any decent retailer saves money on tags and increases security by using cheap tags (no data storage, just a fixed number) and keeping their price and product data in a database keyed to these ID numbers. So talk of walking through Wal-mart and saving money or causing chaos is fantasy.
Conclusion: it is only the medium price (storage but no crypto) tags which are and always have been a risk. The only contribution of this program is raising wider awareness and thus breaking illusory security through obscurity.
It is an interesting idea. Very similar to one we have been working on for 3 years at Linguru. The difference is you can download and use our software today (if our bandwidth holds out:-) ) from Linguru. Our application is cross platform (pure Java) with installers for Linux, Solaris, Unix, Windows, and OS/X. A web browser is included for rapid lookups in a foreign language. You may edit any entry, ask questions, add words and translations. Your changes are distributed in real time (1-2 seconds) to all other users. Version Beta 3 (Welsh and English dictionaries are included) is available now and well tested after 2 years of careful work. Version 1.0 is in final debug as we speak. We really need your support to make this work especially if we are to continue with full support for minority languages. Share your thoughts here or by posting on our message board in the software. Comments, suggestions, and rants to me: Paul.Houghton@linguru.com
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Actually, there is already a John F Kerry swift boat simulator. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3698186.stm
But I think they should come out with the W version. You could dodge the draft, find various beurocratic tricks to avoid active duty and then convince daddy to ensure you still have an honorable discharge several months after you have already left the state.
Concerning expensive RFID tag applications like public tranport prepaid accounts, this could be a problem. More expensive crypto tags solve that problem.
Concerning stores, this is stupid. Retailers don't need expensive reprogrammable tags and don't use them. Cheap tags are just a unique ID number which can't be changed. Any decent retailer saves money on tags and increases security by using cheap tags (no data storage, just a fixed number) and keeping their price and product data in a database keyed to these ID numbers. So talk of walking through Wal-mart and saving money or causing chaos is fantasy.
Conclusion: it is only the medium price (storage but no crypto) tags which are and always have been a risk. The only contribution of this program is raising wider awareness and thus breaking illusory security through obscurity.
It is an interesting idea. Very similar to one we have been working on for 3 years at Linguru. The difference is you can download and use our software today (if our bandwidth holds out :-) ) from Linguru. Our application is cross platform (pure Java) with installers for Linux, Solaris, Unix, Windows, and OS/X. A web browser is included for rapid lookups in a foreign language. You may edit any entry, ask questions, add words and translations. Your changes are distributed in real time (1-2 seconds) to all other users. Version Beta 3 (Welsh and English dictionaries are included) is available now and well tested after 2 years of careful work. Version 1.0 is in final debug as we speak. We really need your support to make this work especially if we are to continue with full support for minority languages. Share your thoughts here or by posting on our message board in the software. Comments, suggestions, and rants to me: Paul.Houghton@linguru.com