Posted on 05/08/2006 7:26:46 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
I'm kidding about the 20 minutes BTW :)
I honestly wonder if a sufficiently hot dryer would take care of it....
Kidding aside, what you are saying is pretty serious. We need some privacy laws fast.
RFID only works on a small scale right? I mean the RFID key to get into my office has a range of 3 inches. I know they can get alot farther but its also alot more expensive.
I don't mind the hassle, within reason, so long as the RFID-disabled passport is ultimately accepted. I mean, I do mind even slight hassle, to be sure, but not remotely as much as I mind having an RFID passport.
And yes, I surely do blame the Bush administration and the GOP congresses, FWIW, not that I really expect the Dems would be any better at all. They'd probably be worse since they've latched on to the 9/11 Commission's recommendations as their security policy mantra.
I am not kidding in the slightest. I am dead serious about disabling the RFID in any future passport I might have, especially since there's no current plan to have the data encrypted.
Looks like Levi's wants to lose tons of business. That's their right, I guess.
And who is to say? At some point they may be implanted under the skin. I mean what better way to track child molesters, vanished children, terrorists, and eventually the average Joe. In future implanting an infant could be as common as circumcision, a Social Security Card is already required for newborns.
Why would that be a problem? Passports & visas are just plain passé these days; nobody uses them anymore. Just sneak in & out, like everyone else.
PS. And, to be exact, the 9/11 Commission recommended a uniform, scannable National ID that would include biometric identifiers and with a standardized nationwide database.
This is looking worse by the minute, glad I didn't put this article under "Humor". Who was on the 9-11 commission? I mean if this chip is taken to the extreme talk about profiling. I mean, isn't profiling a big PC no no?
This is looking worse by the minute, glad I didn't put this article under "Humor". Who was on the 9-11 commission? I mean if this chip is taken to the extreme talk about profiling. I mean, isn't profiling a big PC no no?
I had been admiring your remarkable case of apparent paranoia, until you posted this; now it all becomes clear.
Tailor-made for identity theft with the proper reader. Even encryption is a temporary fix, since "secure" documents are sold by the criminal bottom of our gene pool, who always gravitate to government jobs; e.g. drivers' licenses, Social Security cards and credit card data. How often do they bust another scumbag who sells the real thing?
There is nothing any more that is permanently secure. And simply asserting that we individually must keep track of every possible way to be scammed is a non-answer.
Is that how you beat the technology? How does one kill a RFID tag?
WTF!? What other purpose is there to use an RFID chip? Such a device can be made more rugged than anything that requires an electrical connection, but if there isn't any intelligence on board I see no advantage over a simple 2D barcode.
The only sure way I can think of is a strong EMP from a small nuke. Anybody got a source? Maybe Iran can start a side business here...
Isn't there any other way to send an EMP pulse? I wonder if it could start a cottage industry after the tagging was done: Pulse your pants!
If you guys want to be sure that the RFID is disabled, visit the local machine shop in your town. Odds are that they have a thing called a bearing heater. What its used for is heating up gears and bearings so they can be fitted onto shafts (when you heat metal, it expands and makes fitting easier). The bearing heater can turn a large, steel gear or bearing red hot by subjecting it to a very powerful oscillating magnetic field. This thing would probably fry in the blink of an eye; it'll take out the RFID tag quite handily.
It can be read, and stolen, by simple proximity. That's the essence of the critical difference. It need not be optically scanned.
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