I have said something before, but will say it again:
I think Kinko's is probably using digital technology to mass-store images people are copying. After all, the copiers as well as the scanners are connected to computers. Look around; there are not just power cables connected to those machines. There are also data cables.
One way to know for sure is if in the near future they start "hiding" the cables and start manufacturing excuses about "aesthetics".
See, Kinko's, on behalf of the art, publishing, and many other interested parties, can act as a clearing house. For those too paranoid to use their home printers to mass produce borderline legal manuscripts or illegal/conspiratorial plots and who think it is a safe bet to just run to Rabbit, QuikKopy, Kinko's or the like, think TWICE, and think AGAIN. I wouldn't be surprised if prior to, shortly after (or, especially, especially if there is another 9/11, where the plot hatchers are discovered to be using copier shop equipment of any kind), or in the near future, copy shops start getting retrofitted or new copiers with in-line signal boosters, sniffers, and loggers to read documents, inspect images, and the like.
How many of you remember the CIA operation that read virtually every single letter passing thru La Guardia airport, looking for mail going to or coming from Communist Russia, decades ago?
Think. Ponder. Question. Assume. Live.
As an aside, the "intelligence" agencies (at least in Australia) bungled an opportunity to gain insight into AQ in 2000 and earlier and after...
Yep, you're right. After all, we're talking about the same or related people (cia) who some 26 times tried to kill Castro, yet failed every time since the 50's. They blew up Zu En Lai's passenger plane, killing some 16 Indians/Indonesians trying to kill the Chinese Premier back circa 1953, only to see the US govt hailed him as a friend of the US. Fortunately for him, a last-minute summit changed his plans and he skipped that doomed plane. The hardware (bomb) found turned out to be sophisticated enough to have only come from the US, considering Russia was not a likely suspect for the bombing.
Yep, when the WANT to follow something for a while, they get it. Nope, not even, unless they use predators to bomb cars in the desert or assail civil rights leaders when adulterous photos don't even destroy the marked man's marriage.
As for FBI and Boneland Scexurity...hmm, I guess I am getting the tap opened up on my ass, since I hear ALL US electronics route thru the UK, where the privacy laws permit US domestic and foreign) intel agencies to circumvent US privacy laws...
"We already see the gradual or complete disappearance of federal assistance vouchers, such as food stamps and help to WIC"
I meant to say "paper vouchers"/"paper food stamps", since now many recipients in various states are using debit-card-like vouchers.
Regards,
David Syes
I remember sometime in the early 90's watching a documentary on PBS or KQED or such, where the topic was money and dealing with counterfeiters.
I remember them pointing out that in Europe (which part, I cannot remember...) at the end of the business day, most or all major stores, shops, and other businesses are required to remit ALL their cash to a local bank or some sort of repository.
All the cash is loaded into special machines which electronically are synched and begin scanning for counterfeits. If two bills are duplicate in ID number, the source (pick up location) is correlated. In certain shops, where video surveillance devices are used, an actual passer of the bill might be gleaned, or even identified.
We have no such thing in the US, as I suppose. However, I wonder about the metal strip in the bills. I really want to know if anyone has tested it for signature properties, such as low-level self-identification. Maybe this is being measured in teh fast food restaurants, such as a Burger King I ate at in The Great Mall in Milpitas, CA, and at other places, such as a Jack in the Box near the Pruneyard in Campbell, CA.
The problem with countefeiters, to me, is not so much that they undermine "trust" (since maybe some 60% of US currency is shipped overseas to lube, stabilize or otherwise influence foreign markets and make pliant some foreign leaders), but that they further justify the excuses the government/s posit for dispensing with (getting rid of) paper (anonymous) cash all together.
We already see the gradual or complete disappearance of federal assistance vouchers, such as food stamps and help to WIC (Women, Infants and Children) recipients, and thanks to counterfeits, we may soon find our electronic purchases being video or biometrically recorded, even if we don't know about it. How? Pass a bill or hand over your credit (govt) card and it goes into a reader, capapble of identifying real-time or at least recording for later correlation, your DNA markers or material. I guess purchasing with Latex gloves on hand or using Purel prior to handing over the card might violate some future federal act.
What I'd also like to know is if anyone has done any test to find out if the metal strip in paper bills is designed to act as a "homing beacon" when pooled with other bills that are stolen from banks. Meaning, instead of using exploding dye packs, is it the case that palletized or box-sized bills in shrinkwrap act as a self-amplifying antenna? In certain metro areas, where antennae on the side of buildings can act as interrogators when triggered by a teller, the police could home in on the robbers from a safe distance and pounce them--if they can catch them before the interrogator loses the cells or bills.
Of course, it could be that RFID tags could be inserted between bills, but if the robbers fan the bills for just the pile they're stealing (if they think they have the time, or if they carry in their own portable metal detectors or demagnetizer wands), they could possibly elude being tracked.
Any ideas I've covered in this piece of writing which may be patentable and which currently are NOT in patent process are hereby cast into the public domain, CopyLeft, Creative Commons, and/or other mechanisms of public (non-government regulated) handling, so as to prevent some private firm from doing so and cornering the market for an obvious idea.
Well then, that should relieve the mom and pop coffee shops and even many down-line ISPs who are just resellers from having to put up with the bs patriot act paragraphs that demand compliance of small fry and forbid evasion or discussion.
If suddenly enough people just sanitize their traffice, the nsa, fbi, cia, and other mysterious orgs the names of which we have yet to hear might actually have to lay off some analysts...
I think this stuff is or will become more common. Hell, ms for years has had it. Others have, too.
What I like is that people are finding out and warning others about which products to avoid. This will probably break some "chain of custody" and inconvenience some agencies that want the actual bits and logs, but....oh whell.
What I fear is that, since the electronics industry has been in bed with the various "intelligence" agencies, it will only be a matter of time before reporting these findings becomes a violation of national security.
But, to counter that, let's consider a rumor I heard: The US routes ALL electronics communications through the UK, through MI something, thru Echelon, where certain onerous US privacy laws don't have any bearing on electronic eavesdropping.
So, I guess we should all just go about our normal routines and generate all the suspicious or annoying conversations we normally do. I am not saying elevate yourself to the the top of the shitlist by using obsure, supposedly-secret or restricted key words. Not that it is supposedly akin to yelling "fire" in a crowed theater. And not that it supposedly helps the bad guys by "masking them" in a sea of superfluous, deliberate obfuscatory traffic, either.
I wanted once to set up an internet cafe, but was concerned that the patriot axe would force me to submit my hardware to wiretapping, keystroking and such INSIDE the demarc. I cannot go for that. The spooks can intercept ALL the shit they want, OUTSIDE the demarc. That's what they have optical, microwave, and acoustic techniques for. But to actually TOUCH my machines and forbid my telling the customers... screw that.
If I ever do open an internet cafe, each and every machine will have on it a placard stating:
"Be on your best behavior. Pretend that you have been told this machine is under surveillance from inside, and that by law, if I were ordered by the various police or intel agencies to submit my gear to their wizardry, I'd also be forbidden to tell you it happened. So, in advance, I preempt the risk by telling you now: You can be bugged/monitored ANYwhere, even in your home. Not patronizing me won't increase your privacy, but by my being honest, I have elevated your awareness and possibly increase your discomfort."
I also would reserve the right to survey, salvage or scuttle, at will, any time, ANY of my business equipment, without any courtesy notice. I'd likely be such a pain in the ass they'll go back to sitting in their Ironside panel wagons and point a microwave at the wall. I'd deal with that by installing community/neighborhod watch oriented cameras that have motion detection to monitor and report "suspicious" vehicles to the police, along with license plates and VIN numbers, if zoomable, since VINs, by most state's vehicle codes, cannot be obscured, since obscuring them could interfere with the duties of meter checkers who issue tickets based on make, model, year, color, type, and plate, plate tag, and VIN (Vehicle ID Number, the plate bracketed to the dashboard, under the space usually clear/see-through, despite tinted windscreens (if coming from the manufacturer, direct.)...
I guess, tho, they'd accuse me of maintaining an unauthorized database that could compromise privacy. Privacy of whom? Agents on snoop jobs? It would be a hollow argument, such as that when privacy issues were raised about the Sony See-Thru Cameras of late 1997/early 1998, where each and every one purchased by electronic means was retreived, by LAW. No, it wasn't to keep wayward peeping toms from identifying bras, chastity belts and nipples. It most likely was to prevent the exposure and identification of body guards of dignitaries and others such as mayors. After all, while some important persons with an entourage of body guards have them close-up, some others surely have to be at some stand-off distance to monitor and possibly intercept or deter would-be assailants.
Maybe such camers could have been used in airports to identify diplomats
I'd like to know if the Moon is an excised blister or pustule of Earth. I guess, however, the Earth and Moon had plenty of cosmic/cosmetic time to "consolidate" their mutually-pocked appearances.
Imagine if Earth herself were today showing a huge, huge, gaping hole somewhere, with gravitational anomalies, but yet with a fairly smooth rotation and solar orbit. I wonder if the Moon would have some weird orbits. Imagine waterfalls very deep, or maybe a lower water table.
I guess, also, maybe the Moon is a heat/pressure/gravitation/rotation-hardened consolidation of the surface or subsurface matter now featured as our sea floors in some places...
Now, fi the thing gets small enough to swallow, one could give their controller an acid bath and pull it back up. That'll REALLY keep people from stealing it
Either I didn't include the other one, or it was line-broken and needs to be reassembled.
However, it's about disrupting Wi-Fi. I am taking a leap in assuming biometric ID cards can be similarly jammed, maybe even disabled if enough energy is directed at them (tho, I don't know that would to do humans having or not having pacemakers...)
Point taken.
An interesting and scary variation of this could spawn from:
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,954972 3%255E15306,00.html
where someone or a cell of people strategically placed can easily or brute-force interfere with Wi-Fi-based controls and directions systems. Maybe they'll never controllably manipulate the systems, but interfering with them, making them repeatedly shut down or restart or have address-assignment contention issues and the like would be a heinous denial of service attack.
If such an attack occurred to an immigration facility or an airport, thousands of travellers would suddenly find themselves in "lock-down". Imagine if the airports start getting retrofitted with cell-block doors or drop-gates to keep hoards of wanton or impatient travelers in place until the computers are rebooted (which in the case of windoze, with the issues w2k seems to be having with dual-homed Wi-Fi/traditional nic devices, could be troublesome), inspection agents sign back in, guards wait for the OK to open the gates, and then people tear the place up rushing to their taxis... Maybe the parking system might be wonky, and then nobody gets out without paying the maximum daily rate...
Sigh, the opportunities for juvenile to international exploits...
Very well put. Karma can be a "bitch", and a LOT of these stupid-assed corporate and corporate-bought state-level labor code lawyers need to remember the words of Redd Foxx, as Fred Sanford, when the character said, "I don't believe in doing unto others before they do unto me, 'cuzz I might get **done in** DO 'IN IT."
My variation on "live and let live" is "Let Live, then Live". Corporate hegemenony/imperialism, regardless of its nation of spawning, is ultimately going to cast upon itself a molten, heaping slag the might just undue them. But, the question, is "How long will it take?"
... that any government wants to assuage the fears by claiming "it's so locked up we can't get in either... all we can do is interrogate it at official interrogation facilities, that if you don't enter, you won't be known..." Yeh, right...I say.
And, sir, is there any guarantee (rhetorical initial question?) that there is not going to be any surreptitious/clandestine alternate wave emanating from such cards.
Of course, anyone savvy enough could try to tempt the card to give a chirp, even if only once, but what if each card is programmed to randomly "chirp" to a cell site?
What if the randomness is controlled by building-mounted interrogators, such as IFF/Identification Friend or Foe? If the chirp is government-initiated, it is of no comfort to hear that the chip will refuse to reply to from some standard hardare attacks.
I still say the card should be shielded "just in case", don't you agree?
I guess, however, a severe government punishment could be this: "All persons must carry their official ID. All persons carrying their approved ID may never bend, tear, fold, spindle or otherwise mutilate the official property of the State, nor may the encase, obfuscate, wave-block, interrogate-block, or otherwise interfere with the two-way communications signals. Carriers entering a Federal or State building with an immediately-non-interrogable ID card will be dealt with severely..."
I guess this reduces to "don't ask, don't tell", resulting in lots of inexplicable (public secret) carrying of foil in pockets..
I'll ALWAYS remember (1984/NTC/SSC/Boost Instructor) Marine SSgt Rodriguez's words: "Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL!", as should anyone reading his line.
Yep. I hit submit when I meant to hit Preview. I'd forgotten to hit "Plain Old Text", and there is not smart checker to ask, "Do you REALLY want to sent this large/mass blob of text?"
I guess I need to set my prefs to POTS, since I almost never need to use HTML...
Sorry, here is the Plain Old Text I intened to submit, not the html... Moderator, PLEASE remove the html (one-long-ole-unreadable-line-mess) version I sent prior to this...Thx
A reader already submitted the article I guess hours before I did, but here is the verbatim of my submission:
I read with curiosity an article on Yahoo! regarding the US' getting ready to issue ID-chip-based passports, at this URL:
-- Encryption is purportedly going to go into protecting the identity of holders of RFID-based passports. However, I think I might resort to several layers of aluminum foil, or a portable Faraday cage. Maybe it will be possible to ground the cage by walking on a frictive pad inside my shoe, sending the ground-effect current up the wire, around the cage, and neutralizing any signals trying to query my passport. QUICK-- Somebody patent that! And then give me a call! Too late, I deliberately communicated the idea so that it is Open Source, now, under the David Syes Shoe-Powered, Passport Anti-ID-Theft Faraday Cage Technique License, created impromptu for this article discussion. No non-existing (as of this date) registrations in any patent office shall be regarded as valid, since if they don't yet exist, this idea shall preempt them for the good of humanity.
I imagine for military personnel of ANY country wireless passports and joint operations ID cards would get priority on the encryption issue, or else such cards would become massive Tempest Hazards. (Not only ID's could be compromised, but massed bodies could enable a savvy saboteur to identify troop strength, and maybe even in real-time harass the loved ones of said troops...) A real risk for undercover operatives, or even the Secret Service would be that they might be identified. I imagine the REAL story for the Sony X-Ray Camcorders' being recalled was not CIVILIAN privacy, but the threat the see-through cameras constituted to officials/dignitaries and maybe the ease of locating them by identifying their armed/gadget-carrying body guards. I thought of this back around Jan/Feb 98 when the issue broke, but maybe only once brought it up in the Internet.
Worse, RFID-based attacks could become the wave of the future, whereby attackers could be slaved to a locality-based trigger which only goes off when the carriers are in optimal position. Might make some interesting fiction, but fact and fiction these days seem to be dancing an increasingly intricate tap dance. As a Marine I once reported to said, "Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL!", in stark contrast to the "Where there's a will, there's a way" statement. His variation was intended for positive/persuasive motivation, not just a cliche.
But on a lesser, non-lethal mode, permit-holding, ordinance/provisions-abiding activists could monitor each other to make sure they are not being swept up by over zealous police. Also, Shoe-Powered Faraday cage would make sure that all future identity cards, while carried as per most local laws, would (hopefully) effectively neutralize a crotch-scratching surveillance team's ability to area-sweep the ID of participants, press, and curious bystanders.
I can see it now... driver's licenses being interrogated and dutifully replying to events monitors, who often are police and agents and watch groups using surreptitiously- and overtly-placed cameras, microphones, and other tracking mechanisms most people completely ignore.
A reader already submitted the article I guess hours before I did, but here is the verbatim of my submission:
I read with curiosity an article on Yahoo! regarding the US' getting ready to issue ID-chip-based passports, at this URL:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=20 27&ncid=2027&e=6&u=/chitribts/20040515/ts_chicagot rib/uspassportstogetidchips
--
Encryption is purportedly going to go into protecting the identity of holders of RFID-based passports. However, I think I might resort to several layers of aluminum foil, or a portable Faraday cage. Maybe it will be possible to ground the cage by walking on a frictive pad inside my shoe, sending the ground-effect current up the wire, around the cage, and neutralizing any signals trying to query my passport. QUICK-- Somebody patent that! And then give me a call! Too late, I deliberately communicated the idea so that it is Open Source, now, under the David Syes Shoe-Powered, Passport Anti-ID-Theft Faraday Cage Technique License, created impromptu for this article discussion. No non-existing (as of this date) registrations in any patent office shall be regarded as valid, since if they don't yet exist, this idea shall preempt them for the good of humanity.
I imagine for military personnel of ANY country wireless passports and joint operations ID cards would get priority on the encryption issue, or else such cards would become massive Tempest Hazards. (Not only ID's could be compromised, but massed bodies could enable a savvy saboteur to identify troop strength, and maybe even in real-time harass the loved ones of said troops...) A real risk for undercover operatives, or even the Secret Service would be that they might be identified. I imagine the REAL story for the Sony X-Ray Camcorders' being recalled was not CIVILIAN privacy, but the threat the see-through cameras constituted to officials/dignitaries and maybe the ease of locating them by identifying their armed/gadget-carrying body guards. I thought of this back around Jan/Feb 98 when the issue broke, but maybe only once brought it up in the Internet.
Worse, RFID-based attacks could become the wave of the future, whereby attackers could be slaved to a locality-based trigger which only goes off when the carriers are in optimal position. Might make some interesting fiction, but fact and fiction these days seem to be dancing an increasingly intricate tap dance. As a Marine I once reported to said, "Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL!", in stark contrast to the "Where there's a will, there's a way" statement. His variation was intended for positive/persuasive motivation, not just a cliche.
But on a lesser, non-lethal mode, permit-holding, ordinance/provisions-abiding activists could monitor each other to make sure they are not being swept up by over zealous police. Also, Shoe-Powered Faraday cage would make sure that all future identity cards, while carried as per most local laws, would (hopefully) effectively neutralize a crotch-scratching surveillance team's ability to area-sweep the ID of participants, press, and curious bystanders.
I can see it now... driver's licenses being interrogated and dutifully replying to events monitors, who often are police and agents and watch groups using surreptitiously- and overtly-placed cameras, microphones, and other tracking mechanisms most people completely ignore.
Regards,
David Syes
this ROCKS! This is the consolation prize I gladly laugh for since 22 replies followed the posting which I though IIII was first to reply to..
The foil over Bin Laden, the Dog, and the body frontals is cool, especially all the mathematical/electronic formulae/theory...
The author of that site should get a huge check for that page of laughter...
DS
News for YOU!
Cigarettes sold in the Philippines, as late as 1988, were NOT labeled. I am talking about major US brands. I saw them personally, as in on the streets, walking around as a sailor. I wonder if there are any US Surgeon General's warnings in Tagalog. I wonder if Philip Morris (with its new Eukanuba-like name) actively acts on behalf of foreign citizens of the lands in which their cig subsides do business... I guess if PM is still selling cigs there, they they are the PI M,P...
It's interesting how the vaunted corporations of my country of birth (the usa) can have a set of double standards: bow to the health activist and Surgeon General, but to hell with Filipinos and others whose governments can be bought off.
Karma can be a BITCH, and Karma comes back in different and non-negotiable ways. If we citizens sit on our butts and complacently allow our run-amok corporations and their partners to devalue humans on other soils, then we'll reap what we sew, however, whenever, and to whatever level of pall or horror it may be. Believe me, if business is war, then we, the consumers, are tantamount to battlefield medics, supply corps, signal corps, and even reporters in uniform. To this extent, red or white crosses are likely to be ignored and fired upon. Maybe if we are more selective, less purchasing, and more communicative to pop-up and cut throat manufacturers, MAYBE we'll impinge upon fewer soils, markets, and likely anger fewer people who just don't want our "goods", "services", or ideas....
Think universally, act globally! (I don't know if anyone else uses that phrase (vs Think globally act locally), but I decided to give it a whirl....). Maybe we'll get our asses trounced on Mars, if anything really is there trying to remain hidden...
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I have said something before, but will say it again:
& u=/lat imests/20040607/ts_latimes/before911onewarningwent unheard
I think Kinko's is probably using digital technology to mass-store images people are copying. After all, the copiers as well as the scanners are connected to computers. Look around; there are not just power cables connected to those machines. There are also data cables.
One way to know for sure is if in the near future they start "hiding" the cables and start manufacturing excuses about "aesthetics".
See, Kinko's, on behalf of the art, publishing, and many other interested parties, can act as a clearing house. For those too paranoid to use their home printers to mass produce borderline legal manuscripts or illegal/conspiratorial plots and who think it is a safe bet to just run to Rabbit, QuikKopy, Kinko's or the like, think TWICE, and think AGAIN. I wouldn't be surprised if prior to, shortly after (or, especially, especially if there is another 9/11, where the plot hatchers are discovered to be using copier shop equipment of any kind), or in the near future, copy shops start getting retrofitted or new copiers with in-line signal boosters, sniffers, and loggers to read documents, inspect images, and the like.
How many of you remember the CIA operation that read virtually every single letter passing thru La Guardia airport, looking for mail going to or coming from Communist Russia, decades ago?
Think. Ponder. Question. Assume. Live.
As an aside, the "intelligence" agencies (at least in Australia) bungled an opportunity to gain insight into AQ in 2000 and earlier and after...
==
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story
Before 9/11, One Warning Went Unheard
A minimum of SIX opportunities to sieze upon information were bungled...
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David Syes
Yep, you're right. After all, we're talking about the same or related people (cia) who some 26 times tried to kill Castro, yet failed every time since the 50's. They blew up Zu En Lai's passenger plane, killing some 16 Indians/Indonesians trying to kill the Chinese Premier back circa 1953, only to see the US govt hailed him as a friend of the US. Fortunately for him, a last-minute summit changed his plans and he skipped that doomed plane. The hardware (bomb) found turned out to be sophisticated enough to have only come from the US, considering Russia was not a likely suspect for the bombing.
Yep, when the WANT to follow something for a while, they get it. Nope, not even, unless they use predators to bomb cars in the desert or assail civil rights leaders when adulterous photos don't even destroy the marked man's marriage.
As for FBI and Boneland Scexurity...hmm, I guess I am getting the tap opened up on my ass, since I hear ALL US electronics route thru the UK, where the privacy laws permit US domestic and foreign) intel agencies to circumvent US privacy laws...
Is that true, anyone?
David Syes
"We already see the gradual or complete disappearance of federal assistance vouchers, such as food stamps and help to WIC" I meant to say "paper vouchers"/"paper food stamps", since now many recipients in various states are using debit-card-like vouchers. Regards, David Syes
Except, of course, when run over by a steam roller. DS
I remember sometime in the early 90's watching a documentary on PBS or KQED or such, where the topic was money and dealing with counterfeiters.
I remember them pointing out that in Europe (which part, I cannot remember...) at the end of the business day, most or all major stores, shops, and other businesses are required to remit ALL their cash to a local bank or some sort of repository.
All the cash is loaded into special machines which electronically are synched and begin scanning for counterfeits. If two bills are duplicate in ID number, the source (pick up location) is correlated. In certain shops, where video surveillance devices are used, an actual passer of the bill might be gleaned, or even identified.
We have no such thing in the US, as I suppose. However, I wonder about the metal strip in the bills. I really want to know if anyone has tested it for signature properties, such as low-level self-identification. Maybe this is being measured in teh fast food restaurants, such as a Burger King I ate at in The Great Mall in Milpitas, CA, and at other places, such as a Jack in the Box near the Pruneyard in Campbell, CA.
The problem with countefeiters, to me, is not so much that they undermine "trust" (since maybe some 60% of US currency is shipped overseas to lube, stabilize or otherwise influence foreign markets and make pliant some foreign leaders), but that they further justify the excuses the government/s posit for dispensing with (getting rid of) paper (anonymous) cash all together.
We already see the gradual or complete disappearance of federal assistance vouchers, such as food stamps and help to WIC (Women, Infants and Children) recipients, and thanks to counterfeits, we may soon find our electronic purchases being video or biometrically recorded, even if we don't know about it. How? Pass a bill or hand over your credit (govt) card and it goes into a reader, capapble of identifying real-time or at least recording for later correlation, your DNA markers or material. I guess purchasing with Latex gloves on hand or using Purel prior to handing over the card might violate some future federal act.
What I'd also like to know is if anyone has done any test to find out if the metal strip in paper bills is designed to act as a "homing beacon" when pooled with other bills that are stolen from banks. Meaning, instead of using exploding dye packs, is it the case that palletized or box-sized bills in shrinkwrap act as a self-amplifying antenna? In certain metro areas, where antennae on the side of buildings can act as interrogators when triggered by a teller, the police could home in on the robbers from a safe distance and pounce them--if they can catch them before the interrogator loses the cells or bills.
Of course, it could be that RFID tags could be inserted between bills, but if the robbers fan the bills for just the pile they're stealing (if they think they have the time, or if they carry in their own portable metal detectors or demagnetizer wands), they could possibly elude being tracked.
Any ideas I've covered in this piece of writing which may be patentable and which currently are NOT in patent process are hereby cast into the public domain, CopyLeft, Creative Commons, and/or other mechanisms of public (non-government regulated) handling, so as to prevent some private firm from doing so and cornering the market for an obvious idea.
David Syes
And, to throw in a Spoonerism, double-click now can be called clubble-dick...
DS
Well then, that should relieve the mom and pop coffee shops and even many down-line ISPs who are just resellers from having to put up with the bs patriot act paragraphs that demand compliance of small fry and forbid evasion or discussion.
If suddenly enough people just sanitize their traffice, the nsa, fbi, cia, and other mysterious orgs the names of which we have yet to hear might actually have to lay off some analysts...
DS
I think this stuff is or will become more common. Hell, ms for years has had it. Others have, too.
What I like is that people are finding out and warning others about which products to avoid. This will probably break some "chain of custody" and inconvenience some agencies that want the actual bits and logs, but....oh whell.
What I fear is that, since the electronics industry has been in bed with the various "intelligence" agencies, it will only be a matter of time before reporting these findings becomes a violation of national security.
But, to counter that, let's consider a rumor I heard: The US routes ALL electronics communications through the UK, through MI something, thru Echelon, where certain onerous US privacy laws don't have any bearing on electronic eavesdropping.
So, I guess we should all just go about our normal routines and generate all the suspicious or annoying conversations we normally do. I am not saying elevate yourself to the the top of the shitlist by using obsure, supposedly-secret or restricted key words. Not that it is supposedly akin to yelling "fire" in a crowed theater. And not that it supposedly helps the bad guys by "masking them" in a sea of superfluous, deliberate obfuscatory traffic, either.
I wanted once to set up an internet cafe, but was concerned that the patriot axe would force me to submit my hardware to wiretapping, keystroking and such INSIDE the demarc. I cannot go for that. The spooks can intercept ALL the shit they want, OUTSIDE the demarc. That's what they have optical, microwave, and acoustic techniques for. But to actually TOUCH my machines and forbid my telling the customers... screw that.
If I ever do open an internet cafe, each and every machine will have on it a placard stating:
"Be on your best behavior. Pretend that you have been told this machine is under surveillance from inside, and that by law, if I were ordered by the various police or intel agencies to submit my gear to their wizardry, I'd also be forbidden to tell you it happened. So, in advance, I preempt the risk by telling you now: You can be bugged/monitored ANYwhere, even in your home. Not patronizing me won't increase your privacy, but by my being honest, I have elevated your awareness and possibly increase your discomfort."
I also would reserve the right to survey, salvage or scuttle, at will, any time, ANY of my business equipment, without any courtesy notice. I'd likely be such a pain in the ass they'll go back to sitting in their Ironside panel wagons and point a microwave at the wall. I'd deal with that by installing community/neighborhod watch oriented cameras that have motion detection to monitor and report "suspicious" vehicles to the police, along with license plates and VIN numbers, if zoomable, since VINs, by most state's vehicle codes, cannot be obscured, since obscuring them could interfere with the duties of meter checkers who issue tickets based on make, model, year, color, type, and plate, plate tag, and VIN (Vehicle ID Number, the plate bracketed to the dashboard, under the space usually clear/see-through, despite tinted windscreens (if coming from the manufacturer, direct.)...
I guess, tho, they'd accuse me of maintaining an unauthorized database that could compromise privacy. Privacy of whom? Agents on snoop jobs? It would be a hollow argument, such as that when privacy issues were raised about the Sony See-Thru Cameras of late 1997/early 1998, where each and every one purchased by electronic means was retreived, by LAW. No, it wasn't to keep wayward peeping toms from identifying bras, chastity belts and nipples. It most likely was to prevent the exposure and identification of body guards of dignitaries and others such as mayors. After all, while some important persons with an entourage of body guards have them close-up, some others surely have to be at some stand-off distance to monitor and possibly intercept or deter would-be assailants.
Maybe such camers could have been used in airports to identify diplomats
I'd like to know if the Moon is an excised blister or pustule of Earth. I guess, however, the Earth and Moon had plenty of cosmic/cosmetic time to "consolidate" their mutually-pocked appearances.
Imagine if Earth herself were today showing a huge, huge, gaping hole somewhere, with gravitational anomalies, but yet with a fairly smooth rotation and solar orbit. I wonder if the Moon would have some weird orbits. Imagine waterfalls very deep, or maybe a lower water table.
I guess, also, maybe the Moon is a heat/pressure/gravitation/rotation-hardened consolidation of the surface or subsurface matter now featured as our sea floors in some places...
DS
Tongue Lashing, anyone?
Now, fi the thing gets small enough to swallow, one could give their controller an acid bath and pull it back up. That'll REALLY keep people from stealing it
Sorry about that. Here is a shorter URL.
http://securityfocus.com/news/8575
Either I didn't include the other one, or it was line-broken and needs to be reassembled.
However, it's about disrupting Wi-Fi. I am taking a leap in assuming biometric ID cards can be similarly jammed, maybe even disabled if enough energy is directed at them (tho, I don't know that would to do humans having or not having pacemakers...)
DS
Point taken. An interesting and scary variation of this could spawn from: http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,954972 3%255E15306,00.html
where someone or a cell of people strategically placed can easily or brute-force interfere with Wi-Fi-based controls and directions systems. Maybe they'll never controllably manipulate the systems, but interfering with them, making them repeatedly shut down or restart or have address-assignment contention issues and the like would be a heinous denial of service attack.
If such an attack occurred to an immigration facility or an airport, thousands of travellers would suddenly find themselves in "lock-down". Imagine if the airports start getting retrofitted with cell-block doors or drop-gates to keep hoards of wanton or impatient travelers in place until the computers are rebooted (which in the case of windoze, with the issues w2k seems to be having with dual-homed Wi-Fi/traditional nic devices, could be troublesome), inspection agents sign back in, guards wait for the OK to open the gates, and then people tear the place up rushing to their taxis... Maybe the parking system might be wonky, and then nobody gets out without paying the maximum daily rate...
Sigh, the opportunities for juvenile to international exploits...
AWESOME!
Very well put. Karma can be a "bitch", and a LOT of these stupid-assed corporate and corporate-bought state-level labor code lawyers need to remember the words of Redd Foxx, as Fred Sanford, when the character said, "I don't believe in doing unto others before they do unto me, 'cuzz I might get **done in** DO 'IN IT."
My variation on "live and let live" is "Let Live, then Live". Corporate hegemenony/imperialism, regardless of its nation of spawning, is ultimately going to cast upon itself a molten, heaping slag the might just undue them. But, the question, is "How long will it take?"
... that any government wants to assuage the fears by claiming "it's so locked up we can't get in either... all we can do is interrogate it at official interrogation facilities, that if you don't enter, you won't be known..." Yeh, right...I say.
And, sir, is there any guarantee (rhetorical initial question?) that there is not going to be any surreptitious/clandestine alternate wave emanating from such cards.
Of course, anyone savvy enough could try to tempt the card to give a chirp, even if only once, but what if each card is programmed to randomly "chirp" to a cell site?
What if the randomness is controlled by building-mounted interrogators, such as IFF/Identification Friend or Foe? If the chirp is government-initiated, it is of no comfort to hear that the chip will refuse to reply to from some standard hardare attacks.
I still say the card should be shielded "just in case", don't you agree?
I guess, however, a severe government punishment could be this: "All persons must carry their official ID. All persons carrying their approved ID may never bend, tear, fold, spindle or otherwise mutilate the official property of the State, nor may the encase, obfuscate, wave-block, interrogate-block, or otherwise interfere with the two-way communications signals. Carriers entering a Federal or State building with an immediately-non-interrogable ID card will be dealt with severely..."
I guess this reduces to "don't ask, don't tell", resulting in lots of inexplicable (public secret) carrying of foil in pockets..
I'll ALWAYS remember (1984/NTC/SSC/Boost Instructor) Marine SSgt Rodriguez's words: "Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL!", as should anyone reading his line.
David Syes
Yep. I hit submit when I meant to hit Preview. I'd forgotten to hit "Plain Old Text", and there is not smart checker to ask, "Do you REALLY want to sent this large/mass blob of text?"
I guess I need to set my prefs to POTS, since I almost never need to use HTML...
Thanks
Sorry, here is the Plain Old Text I intened to submit, not the html... Moderator, PLEASE remove the html (one-long-ole-unreadable-line-mess) version I sent prior to this...Thx
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A reader already submitted the article I guess hours before I did, but here is the verbatim of my submission:
I read with curiosity an article on Yahoo! regarding the US' getting ready to issue ID-chip-based passports, at this URL:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid
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Encryption is purportedly going to go into protecting the identity of holders of RFID-based passports. However, I think I might resort to several layers of aluminum foil, or a portable Faraday cage. Maybe it will be possible to ground the cage by walking on a frictive pad inside my shoe, sending the ground-effect current up the wire, around the cage, and neutralizing any signals trying to query my passport. QUICK-- Somebody patent that! And then give me a call! Too late, I deliberately communicated the idea so that it is Open Source, now, under the David Syes Shoe-Powered, Passport Anti-ID-Theft Faraday Cage Technique License, created impromptu for this article discussion. No non-existing (as of this date) registrations in any patent office shall be regarded as valid, since if they don't yet exist, this idea shall preempt them for the good of humanity.
I imagine for military personnel of ANY country wireless passports and joint operations ID cards would get priority on the encryption issue, or else such cards would become massive Tempest Hazards. (Not only ID's could be compromised, but massed bodies could enable a savvy saboteur to identify troop strength, and maybe even in real-time harass the loved ones of said troops...) A real risk for undercover operatives, or even the Secret Service would be that they might be identified. I imagine the REAL story for the Sony X-Ray Camcorders' being recalled was not CIVILIAN privacy, but the threat the see-through cameras constituted to officials/dignitaries and maybe the ease of locating them by identifying their armed/gadget-carrying body guards. I thought of this back around Jan/Feb 98 when the issue broke, but maybe only once brought it up in the Internet.
Worse, RFID-based attacks could become the wave of the future, whereby attackers could be slaved to a locality-based trigger which only goes off when the carriers are in optimal position. Might make some interesting fiction, but fact and fiction these days seem to be dancing an increasingly intricate tap dance. As a Marine I once reported to said, "Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL!", in stark contrast to the "Where there's a will, there's a way" statement. His variation was intended for positive/persuasive motivation, not just a cliche.
But on a lesser, non-lethal mode, permit-holding, ordinance/provisions-abiding activists could monitor each other to make sure they are not being swept up by over zealous police. Also, Shoe-Powered Faraday cage would make sure that all future identity cards, while carried as per most local laws, would (hopefully) effectively neutralize a crotch-scratching surveillance team's ability to area-sweep the ID of participants, press, and curious bystanders.
I can see it now... driver's licenses being interrogated and dutifully replying to events monitors, who often are police and agents and watch groups using surreptitiously- and overtly-placed cameras, microphones, and other tracking mechanisms most people completely ignore.
Regards,
David Syes
A reader already submitted the article I guess hours before I did, but here is the verbatim of my submission: I read with curiosity an article on Yahoo! regarding the US' getting ready to issue ID-chip-based passports, at this URL: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=20 27&ncid=2027&e=6&u=/chitribts/20040515/ts_chicagot rib/uspassportstogetidchips
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Encryption is purportedly going to go into protecting the identity of holders of RFID-based passports. However, I think I might resort to several layers of aluminum foil, or a portable Faraday cage. Maybe it will be possible to ground the cage by walking on a frictive pad inside my shoe, sending the ground-effect current up the wire, around the cage, and neutralizing any signals trying to query my passport. QUICK-- Somebody patent that! And then give me a call! Too late, I deliberately communicated the idea so that it is Open Source, now, under the David Syes Shoe-Powered, Passport Anti-ID-Theft Faraday Cage Technique License, created impromptu for this article discussion. No non-existing (as of this date) registrations in any patent office shall be regarded as valid, since if they don't yet exist, this idea shall preempt them for the good of humanity.
I imagine for military personnel of ANY country wireless passports and joint operations ID cards would get priority on the encryption issue, or else such cards would become massive Tempest Hazards. (Not only ID's could be compromised, but massed bodies could enable a savvy saboteur to identify troop strength, and maybe even in real-time harass the loved ones of said troops...) A real risk for undercover operatives, or even the Secret Service would be that they might be identified. I imagine the REAL story for the Sony X-Ray Camcorders' being recalled was not CIVILIAN privacy, but the threat the see-through cameras constituted to officials/dignitaries and maybe the ease of locating them by identifying their armed/gadget-carrying body guards. I thought of this back around Jan/Feb 98 when the issue broke, but maybe only once brought it up in the Internet.
Worse, RFID-based attacks could become the wave of the future, whereby attackers could be slaved to a locality-based trigger which only goes off when the carriers are in optimal position. Might make some interesting fiction, but fact and fiction these days seem to be dancing an increasingly intricate tap dance. As a Marine I once reported to said, "Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL!", in stark contrast to the "Where there's a will, there's a way" statement. His variation was intended for positive/persuasive motivation, not just a cliche.
But on a lesser, non-lethal mode, permit-holding, ordinance/provisions-abiding activists could monitor each other to make sure they are not being swept up by over zealous police. Also, Shoe-Powered Faraday cage would make sure that all future identity cards, while carried as per most local laws, would (hopefully) effectively neutralize a crotch-scratching surveillance team's ability to area-sweep the ID of participants, press, and curious bystanders.
I can see it now... driver's licenses being interrogated and dutifully replying to events monitors, who often are police and agents and watch groups using surreptitiously- and overtly-placed cameras, microphones, and other tracking mechanisms most people completely ignore.
Regards,
David Syes
this ROCKS! This is the consolation prize I gladly laugh for since 22 replies followed the posting which I though IIII was first to reply to.. The foil over Bin Laden, the Dog, and the body frontals is cool, especially all the mathematical/electronic formulae/theory... The author of that site should get a huge check for that page of laughter... DS
News for YOU! Cigarettes sold in the Philippines, as late as 1988, were NOT labeled. I am talking about major US brands. I saw them personally, as in on the streets, walking around as a sailor. I wonder if there are any US Surgeon General's warnings in Tagalog. I wonder if Philip Morris (with its new Eukanuba-like name) actively acts on behalf of foreign citizens of the lands in which their cig subsides do business... I guess if PM is still selling cigs there, they they are the PI M,P ...
It's interesting how the vaunted corporations of my country of birth (the usa) can have a set of double standards: bow to the health activist and Surgeon General, but to hell with Filipinos and others whose governments can be bought off.
Karma can be a BITCH, and Karma comes back in different and non-negotiable ways. If we citizens sit on our butts and complacently allow our run-amok corporations and their partners to devalue humans on other soils, then we'll reap what we sew, however, whenever, and to whatever level of pall or horror it may be. Believe me, if business is war, then we, the consumers, are tantamount to battlefield medics, supply corps, signal corps, and even reporters in uniform. To this extent, red or white crosses are likely to be ignored and fired upon. Maybe if we are more selective, less purchasing, and more communicative to pop-up and cut throat manufacturers, MAYBE we'll impinge upon fewer soils, markets, and likely anger fewer people who just don't want our "goods", "services", or ideas....
Think universally, act globally! (I don't know if anyone else uses that phrase (vs Think globally act locally), but I decided to give it a whirl....). Maybe we'll get our asses trounced on Mars, if anything really is there trying to remain hidden...
Eww, is that a bunch of bull?