I've posted this elsewhere tonight, but I'll post it here, too.
The "expiration dates" on the files were hastily added TODAY as a bit of damage control.
No expiration dates were included on any of the Auto-ID Center's confidential documents before this afternoon.
To verify this, you can find a mirror of the original search done this morning (before we went public with this) at: http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~workmj/cryptome.org/ rfid- docs.htm
There were 68 documents available under a "confidential" search of the Auto-ID Center's website this morning.
They did NOT say "confidential until [fill in date]" like they do now.
The Auto-ID Center's first response this morning was to pull nearly all the documents with "confidential" in their descriptions off the site, then slowly replace them one by one, with new "confidential until" designations tacked on. We have not yet had a chance to verify if the documents have changed in other ways than the new "sell by" dates they now carry.
Many other documents vanished and have not yet reappeared (nor are they likely to, considering their content).
Cryptome has listed the original 68 "confidential" search results, as they appeared this weekend. As soon as the Cryptome site recovers, you can verify that there were few or no expiration dates on any confidential documents until well after the story broke today.
You've got to hand it to the Auto-ID Center for working overtime on damage control. The "confidential until" thing was a nice touch.
p.s. Until it crashed, Cryptome had all 68 original documents available for downloading on its website.
There were 68 documents available under a "confidential" search of the Auto-ID Center's website this morning. They did NOT say "confidential until [fill in date]" like they do now.
The Auto-ID Center's first response this morning was to pull nearly all the documents with "confidential" in their descriptions off the site, then slowly replace them one by one, with new "confidential until" designations tacked on.
Many other documents vanished and have not yet reappeared (nor are they likely to, considering their content). We have not yet had a chance to verify if the documents have changed in other ways than the new "sell by" dates they now carry.
Cryptome has listed the original 68 "confidential" search results, as they appeared this weekend. As soon as the Cryptome site recovers, you can verify that there were few or no expiration dates on any confidential documents until well after the story broke today.
You've got to hand it to the Auto-ID Center, though, for working overtime on damage control.
The "confidential until" thing was a nice touch.
p.s. Until it crashed, Cryptome had all 68 original documents available for downloading on its website.
RFID chips will contain UNIQUE serial numbers for each individual item. Every Coke can will have its own number, shared with no other Coke can. That's the whole point of this technology. (That, and the remote-readability.)
In other words, "We are looking for chip # #2345834658710129329358-etc"--would not be referring to any old tennis shoes of Brand X, but to the chip embedded in the rubber sole of YOUR specific tennis shoe -- paid for with a credit card and thereby linked to you, indelibly, in a database somewhere, where John Poindexter and his data-slathering minions will find a good use for it, rest assured.
But, Hmm, Did you wear those shoes to that anti-war rally or gun show? (or both, depending on your politics) If so, did you notice that big, wide rubber mat you stepped on as you walked in? How nice of the police to help you wipe the mud from your Nikes before a long day of politically charged activity....
Btw, speaking of floor readers (researchers have already experimentally embedded them in floor tiles and carpeting) short read range would be a feature, not a bug if the snoops wanted to start reading people's shoes. They'd only need an inch of tag-reader range. You'd have to invest in a lot of helium if you wanted to bypass that one.
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I've posted this elsewhere tonight, but I'll post it here, too.
/ rfid- docs.htm
The "expiration dates" on the files were hastily added TODAY as a bit of damage control.
No expiration dates were included on any of the Auto-ID Center's confidential documents before this afternoon.
To verify this, you can find a mirror of the original search done this morning (before we went public with this) at:
http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~workmj/cryptome.org
There were 68 documents available under a "confidential" search of the Auto-ID Center's website this morning.
They did NOT say "confidential until [fill in date]" like they do now.
The Auto-ID Center's first response this morning was to pull nearly all the documents with "confidential" in their descriptions off the site, then slowly replace them one by one, with new "confidential until" designations tacked on. We have not yet had a chance to verify if the documents have changed in other ways than the new "sell by" dates they now carry.
Many other documents vanished and have not yet reappeared (nor are they likely to, considering their content).
Cryptome has listed the original 68 "confidential" search results, as they appeared this weekend. As soon as the Cryptome site recovers, you can verify that there were few or no expiration dates on any confidential documents until well after the story broke today.
You've got to hand it to the Auto-ID Center for working overtime on damage control. The "confidential until" thing was a nice touch.
p.s. Until it crashed, Cryptome had all 68 original documents available for downloading on its website.
There were 68 documents available under a "confidential" search of the Auto-ID Center's website this morning. They did NOT say "confidential until [fill in date]" like they do now. The Auto-ID Center's first response this morning was to pull nearly all the documents with "confidential" in their descriptions off the site, then slowly replace them one by one, with new "confidential until" designations tacked on. Many other documents vanished and have not yet reappeared (nor are they likely to, considering their content). We have not yet had a chance to verify if the documents have changed in other ways than the new "sell by" dates they now carry. Cryptome has listed the original 68 "confidential" search results, as they appeared this weekend. As soon as the Cryptome site recovers, you can verify that there were few or no expiration dates on any confidential documents until well after the story broke today. You've got to hand it to the Auto-ID Center, though, for working overtime on damage control. The "confidential until" thing was a nice touch. p.s. Until it crashed, Cryptome had all 68 original documents available for downloading on its website.
RFID chips will contain UNIQUE serial numbers for each individual item. Every Coke can will have its own number, shared with no other Coke can. That's the whole point of this technology. (That, and the remote-readability.)
In other words, "We are looking for chip # #2345834658710129329358-etc"--would not be referring to any old tennis shoes of Brand X, but to the chip embedded in the rubber sole of YOUR specific tennis shoe -- paid for with a credit card and thereby linked to you, indelibly, in a database somewhere, where John Poindexter and his data-slathering minions will find a good use for it, rest assured.
But, Hmm, Did you wear those shoes to that anti-war rally or gun show? (or both, depending on your politics) If so, did you notice that big, wide rubber mat you stepped on as you walked in? How nice of the police to help you wipe the mud from your Nikes before a long day of politically charged activity....
Btw, speaking of floor readers (researchers have already experimentally embedded them in floor tiles and carpeting) short read range would be a feature, not a bug if the snoops wanted to start reading people's shoes. They'd only need an inch of tag-reader range. You'd have to invest in a lot of helium if you wanted to bypass that one.