The Future of RFID resistance...
At the present time there is some hype in all this RFID stuff...
The chips are very small, 0.3mm - 0.5mm square but all I have read about the fractal antennas they require suggests that these aerials are not that small... yet...
And anyway... can't you see the protestors walking around Wal-Mart zapping all the RFID Tags.
Then they will have to put some kind of firewall on the chips and surround them with a Faraday cage...:) passive chips wont work, they will have to be interactive or at least encrypted, more complex and robust.
It will just lead to more electromagnetic pollution and spam and scam all over the datasphere. Not to mention further erosion of civil liberties...
But... with Nanofabrication Techniques these chips will get even smaller and smaller and smaller...
Imagine the scene... As Orwell turns in his grave...
A secret court in the UK, sometime in the future....
The UK Midland Area Anti-Globalisation Economic Terrorism Special Tribunal
The tribunal was set up in 2009 under the Anti-Capitalist Global Alliance Suppression Act of 2008, which forbids all manner of economic protests, strikes and boycotts.
January 13th 2011
Invisible Judge speaking over a one-way Video Link...
Judge:
"Norman Stanley Smith, also known as SubCommandante Flash-Zapata... you are charged that when you were detained in Santa's Grotto at Wal-Mart Happy-Toys Depot on the 23rd of December 2010 you did have about your person an unlicensed radio amplification device tuned to an illegal frequency, contrary to section 4b, para. 1, subsection 19a, of the Anti-Capitalist Global Alliance, Suppression Act of 2008."
Judge:
"You are further charged that on the said date, in your disguise as Santa Claus you employed the aforementioned radio device to destroy all the RFID Tags at the Wal-Mart HyperMeggaSupperStore in Birmingham by generating a powerful proscribed radio signal, occasioning $487 millions damage to or loss of, perishable and non perishable goods in stock (or thought to be) at that time on those premises. This occurred whilst you were engaged in a conspiracy, which involved an illegal economic protest concerning the fact that the said establishment is now the only shop in central Birmingham. This contrary to section 1, para. 6, subsection 9d, of the above act.
The store you attacked with your radio beam economic terrorist tactic had to close for three months for re-inventory. Some 19,257 tonnes of food and other perishable items had to be thrown away and a major public health disaster was only narrowly averted. You were the key element in the coordinated looting conducted by an estimated 1300 of your fellow conspirators and which is the subject of further proceedings in other cases before this court."
Judge:
"Due to your actions on that day most of your co-conspirators were able to leave Wal-Mart undetected, laden with millions of dollars worth of food and other goods which they had not purchased, without alerting the security system. When some of these persons were challenged by the small contingent of overwhelmed security staff a number of them became violent, after stating "Free The World" and "I have lost my receipt" and... "Fuck off - I paid cash"..."
Judge:
"The court has taken cognisance of the fact that while you have been remanded in custody you have amputated a small section of your left buttock to remove an RFID tag inserted into your body under due process of law. This was when after your arrest you were designated as "A Suspected Person without Voluntary National RFID", in accordance with the Human Security and Freedom RFID (Registration Resistance) Act of 2007. You claim to have done this in protest against a law, which simply serves to protect us all."
Judge:
"In view of this senseless act, your unwillingness to enter a plea and your refusal to recognise this special anti-economic terrorist tribunal, the court appointed automated defence counsel smart system software has entered a plea of insanity on your behalf."
Judge:
"What do you have to say...?"
Sub
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The Future of RFID resistance... At the present time there is some hype in all this RFID stuff... The chips are very small, 0.3mm - 0.5mm square but all I have read about the fractal antennas they require suggests that these aerials are not that small... yet... And anyway... can't you see the protestors walking around Wal-Mart zapping all the RFID Tags. Then they will have to put some kind of firewall on the chips and surround them with a Faraday cage... :) passive chips wont work, they will have to be interactive or at least encrypted, more complex and robust.
It will just lead to more electromagnetic pollution and spam and scam all over the datasphere. Not to mention further erosion of civil liberties...
But... with Nanofabrication Techniques these chips will get even smaller and smaller and smaller...
Imagine the scene... As Orwell turns in his grave...
A secret court in the UK, sometime in the future....
The UK Midland Area Anti-Globalisation Economic Terrorism Special Tribunal
The tribunal was set up in 2009 under the Anti-Capitalist Global Alliance Suppression Act of 2008, which forbids all manner of economic protests, strikes and boycotts.
January 13th 2011
Invisible Judge speaking over a one-way Video Link...
Judge:
"Norman Stanley Smith, also known as SubCommandante Flash-Zapata... you are charged that when you were detained in Santa's Grotto at Wal-Mart Happy-Toys Depot on the 23rd of December 2010 you did have about your person an unlicensed radio amplification device tuned to an illegal frequency, contrary to section 4b, para. 1, subsection 19a, of the Anti-Capitalist Global Alliance, Suppression Act of 2008."
Judge:
"You are further charged that on the said date, in your disguise as Santa Claus you employed the aforementioned radio device to destroy all the RFID Tags at the Wal-Mart HyperMeggaSupperStore in Birmingham by generating a powerful proscribed radio signal, occasioning $487 millions damage to or loss of, perishable and non perishable goods in stock (or thought to be) at that time on those premises. This occurred whilst you were engaged in a conspiracy, which involved an illegal economic protest concerning the fact that the said establishment is now the only shop in central Birmingham. This contrary to section 1, para. 6, subsection 9d, of the above act.
The store you attacked with your radio beam economic terrorist tactic had to close for three months for re-inventory. Some 19,257 tonnes of food and other perishable items had to be thrown away and a major public health disaster was only narrowly averted. You were the key element in the coordinated looting conducted by an estimated 1300 of your fellow conspirators and which is the subject of further proceedings in other cases before this court."
Judge:
"Due to your actions on that day most of your co-conspirators were able to leave Wal-Mart undetected, laden with millions of dollars worth of food and other goods which they had not purchased, without alerting the security system. When some of these persons were challenged by the small contingent of overwhelmed security staff a number of them became violent, after stating "Free The World" and "I have lost my receipt" and... "Fuck off - I paid cash"..."
Judge:
"The court has taken cognisance of the fact that while you have been remanded in custody you have amputated a small section of your left buttock to remove an RFID tag inserted into your body under due process of law. This was when after your arrest you were designated as "A Suspected Person without Voluntary National RFID", in accordance with the Human Security and Freedom RFID (Registration Resistance) Act of 2007. You claim to have done this in protest against a law, which simply serves to protect us all."
Judge:
"In view of this senseless act, your unwillingness to enter a plea and your refusal to recognise this special anti-economic terrorist tribunal, the court appointed automated defence counsel smart system software has entered a plea of insanity on your behalf."
Judge:
"What do you have to say...?"
Sub