Ok, listen ye all. RFID tags do not contain your date of birth and social security number and what not. It contains an ID. Yeah, right. An ID. Its a unique tag of identification. It is linked to all your personal information internally. I am not saying that your personal information cannot be compromised, BUT, its not as easy as scanning a wand on ur passport and extracting the information.
A person who can scan your passport AND have access to the secure internal information can map the id to the information and make merry. But whats the probability of that? The same probability of a guy getting ur credit card number AND having access to the secure internal information of a credit card company. You get it?
Ok, now continue bashing!
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Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?', I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?' Sir George Bernard Shaw
I, for one, am not sure why such a hype is being created over tracking an item in trash. As an extreme case, what if some corp. does find out that you trashed a pair of shoes? Are they gonna sue you for that?
Give it a chance guys. RFID is an emerging technology. Ofcourse it has its flaws, security being one of them. But it will evolve over the course of time and, just like barcode dominated the supply chain for about 25 years, so will RFID.
A chip (like the one that can go into a pair of shoes) can only be scanned at a very short range and the id that is embedded in the chip would make no sense to anyone else apart from the companies involved in the supply chain. I agree that there is a possibility for abuse, but I think the mass is panicking without having the facts straight. Ain't it true that panick sets in when logic goes out the window?
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and a couple of Asian languages: Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean
two make a couple
three make..mmm...err...more than a couple
Unless you are trying to say that Korea is a part of China or Japan!
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Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?'
I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'
Sir George Bernard Shaw
Ok, listen ye all. RFID tags do not contain your date of birth and social security number and what not. It contains an ID. Yeah, right. An ID. Its a unique tag of identification. It is linked to all your personal information internally. I am not saying that your personal information cannot be compromised, BUT, its not as easy as scanning a wand on ur passport and extracting the information.
A person who can scan your passport AND have access to the secure internal information can map the id to the information and make merry. But whats the probability of that? The same probability of a guy getting ur credit card number AND having access to the secure internal information of a credit card company. You get it?
Ok, now continue bashing!
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Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?',
I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'
Sir George Bernard Shaw
I, for one, am not sure why such a hype is being created over tracking an item in trash. As an extreme case, what if some corp. does find out that you trashed a pair of shoes? Are they gonna sue you for that?
Give it a chance guys. RFID is an emerging technology. Ofcourse it has its flaws, security being one of them. But it will evolve over the course of time and, just like barcode dominated the supply chain for about 25 years, so will RFID.
A chip (like the one that can go into a pair of shoes) can only be scanned at a very short range and the id that is embedded in the chip would make no sense to anyone else apart from the companies involved in the supply chain. I agree that there is a possibility for abuse, but I think the mass is panicking without having the facts straight. Ain't it true that panick sets in when logic goes out the window?
-SK
Mmm, errr, I am an RFID engineer.