[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753165/posts
A GENERATION IS ALL THEY NEED

[Calpernia]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4040930009676933149
IBM and the Holocaust

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/index.html
Research is all there for the reading.

Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.

But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.

IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.

IBM's Hollerith punch card IBM's subsidiary, Dehomag in Berlin, Germany

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Today's Identification brought to you by IBM and Verichip:

Press Release

VeriChip Corporation's VeriMed(TM) Medical Solution Is Now Integrated Into the Hospital Demonstration Area of the IBM Solutions Experience Lab Located in Austin, Texas

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2005--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), a leading provider of identification and security technology, announced today that its implantable RFID healthcare system, VeriMed(TM), is now a component of the Hospital demonstration area of the IBM Solutions Experience Lab located in Austin, Texas. The IBM Solutions Experience Lab conducts approximately 260 tours annually for corporations and government agencies wishing to see demonstrations of functional, integrated hardware and software solutions for specific market sectors. The Hospital area demonstrates currently available technologies compatible with IBM healthcare solutions that provide integrated, state-of-the-art capabilities in the healthcare environment.

The Hospital demonstration area illustrates the potential of VeriMed to enhance the IBM Aligned Clinical Environment Solution. This is an integrated solution designed to connect disparate healthcare information sources while also reducing costs. The solution enables data collection and manages integration and analysis of patient information. VeriChip Corporation Chief Executive Officer Kevin McLaughlin noted, "When integrated with IBM's Aligned Clinical Environment Solutions and systems provided by other IBM healthcare business partners, the VeriMed implantable RFID microchip and its related infrastructure provides the 'front-end' that practitioners need for automated, secure, accurate and rapid access to vital clinical information."

About VeriChip - "The First RFID Company for People" VeriChip is a subsidiary of Applied Digital and the only company to provide both implantable and wearable RFID identification and security solutions for people, their assets, and their environments. From the world's first and only FDA-cleared, human-implantable RFID microchip to the only patented active RFID tag with skin-sensing capabilities, VeriChip leads the way in next-generation RFID technologies. Today, over 4,000 installations worldwide in healthcare, security, industrial, and government markets benefit from both the protection and efficiencies provided by VeriChip systems. For more information on VeriChip, please visit www.verichipcorp.com.

About Applied Digital - "The Power of Identification Technology" Applied Digital develops innovative identification and security products for consumer, commercial, and government sectors worldwide.

The Company's unique and often proprietary products provide identification and security systems for people, animals, the food supply, government/military arena, and commercial assets. Included in this diversified product line are RFID applications, end-to-end food safety systems, GPS/Satellite communications, and telecomm and security infrastructure, positioning Applied Digital as the leader in identification technology. Applied Digital is the owner of a majority position in Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC).

Statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, and the Company's actual results could differ materially from expected results. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances.

Contact: CEOcast, Inc. Investors: Ken Sgro, 212-732-4300 Direct Communications Group Media: John O. Procter, 202-772-2179
Source: VeriChip Corporation

[frithguild]

I want a rifid for my 1) car keys; 2)wallet; 3)cellphone; 4)TV remote; 4)slippers and especially 5)eyeglasses.

I have wasted half of my life looking for these things.

[CORedneck]

Three should be a limitation on what the gov't and Corporate America does. They go too far.

It is pretty bad they can access your credit report and find out how you stand financially. Too well off, well, you don't get as big of a pay raise versus someone else who is in debt. Oh, you are less likely to be a team player especially when something unethical needs to be done.

[CarrotAndStick]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/14/hitachis-rfid-powder-freaks-us-the-heck-out/

Hitachi's RFID powder freaks us the heck out
Posted Feb 14th 2007 10:14PM by Paul Miller

Filed under: Wireless

As if the various other permutations and teensyness of RFID weren't wild enough, here comes Hitachi with its new "powder" 0.05mm x 0.05mm RFID chips. The new chips are 64 times smaller than the previous record holder, the 0.4mm x 0.4mm mu-chips, and nine times smaller than Hitachi's last year prototype, and yet still make room for a 128-bit ROM that can store a unique 38-digit ID number. The main application is likely to be anti-counterfeit, but since the previous mu-chips could be embedded into paper quite easily enough, we're fairly certain Hitachi is just doing this for bragging rights and potential pepper shaker mixups. Hitachi should have these on the market in two or three years.

[beef]

It would be positively Orwellian if corporate America was using high technology to track your whereabouts without your knowledge. Welcome to "1984."

 

I would be more worried about the government.  Especially if the liberals grab power. 

[mr_hammer]

It would seem that a device to cripple those tags is what is needed. I am sure someone out there will come up with such a device, no?

Kind of like a radar detector.

I tell ya,corporate America is doing more damage to this country than anyone realizes. Illegal immigration, invasion of privacy schemes, predatory lending, restrictions of the 2nd Amendment on their premises...etc. There is no end to what these clowns will do for profit.

It would appear being a Patriot of this country goes out the window when one rises to the higher echelons of the corporate world.

[mr_hammer]

Look at this!

http://www.tagzapper.com/

[magellan]

There is tremendous misunderstanding about RFID. It is not a "homing system". The small RFID tags which can be put on everything do not broadcast on their own. They have to be "shot" with an RFID reader.

Passive Electronic Product Code (EPC) RFID tags have a range from one to three meters. The idea is they allow your shopping cart to be scanned without removing the items.

So frithguild, RFID cannot "find" your glasses. An RFID reader could gather information from an RFID tag on your glasses assuming you were in range (i.e., a few feet). So first, you would need to be in the same room, and then RFID would tell you, "yes your glasses are near". But it won't tell you if they are between the cushions of the couch, or under the newspaper on the coffee table.

"it can also track the whereabouts of the individual who purchases it and I believe that's an invasion of privacy."

An RFID tag can only track the whereabouts of the individual who purchases the product with the RFID tag if an RFID scanner is brought within range of the RFID tag, the location of the RFID scanner is known, and the the purchaser is still with the RFID tag. Given a range of a few meters, the Men in Black(tm) with RFID scanners would have to be in the same room, or crawling around outside your house shooting their RFID feaders through the windows. Why the Men in Black(tm) want to see if you still have that jar of Ragu you bought last month is beyond me.

Even an Active RFID tag (which is a large, bulky device), has a limited range (about 30 meters), intended for areas the size of shipping yards.

... if an item is purchased using a credit card or a loyalty card is used at the time of purchase it would be possible to tie the unique ID of the tagged item to the identity of the consumer.

They have been able to do this for years with UPC bar codes! This is simple fearmongering.

I remember growing up in the south in the late 1970s when UPC bar codes came out. There were many convinced it was the mark of the beast. Just like the loons today fearmonger about RFID implanted in humans, the loons then fearmongered about mandatory bar code tattoos on everyone.

"RFIDs are in your clothing, in your underwear, in your razor blade packages, any item that you purchase."

The idea of RFID tags "in your clothing" is a bit of a stretch. They would more likely be on the tag, which unless you are Minnie Pearl, you generally remove. You could put an RFID chip into clothing, but you probably could not include an antenna, which would reduce the range to about a foot.

Imagine the invasion of privacy if someone next to you could tell what kind of clothes you were wearing! The color, the style, everything!

As for Hitachi's "powder" RFID chips, these pictures are only of the memory chip. The devices pictured do not include an antenna. To scan the chips without antenna as seen would require almost direct contact. If you want to scan it at three meters, you would need an RFID tag as big as the current ones used today.

[Popocatapetl]

Easy things to do to screw up corporate databases:

1) Make a long list of generated pseudo names to keep in your wallet. Then every time you are asked for personal information for grocery stores, magazine subscriptions, online registrations, etc., use two of the fake names and note who got it. Use fake addresses on real streets, too. Here is a good fake name/password generator.

http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

2) Have several throw away email addresses. Since most of them ask for another email address to set up an account, refer them to each other.

http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_web.htm

3) Use spamgourmet.com for most online registrations.

4) Use bugmenot.com to use someone else's registrations.

5) When installing software use a period "." for the name of the user and business. Most software interprets this as meaning "default", so your name and business name are not returned to the company.

6) Doubleclick opt-out. http://www.privacychoices.org/

[Calpernia]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9914807/from/RL.2
MIT maps wireless users across campus
System allows students to see where everyone is at any time

Excerpt:

MIT's newly upgraded wireless network -- extended this month to cover the entire school -- doesn't merely get you online in study halls, stairwells or any other spot on the 9.4 million square foot campus.

(snip)

The maps were unveiled this week at the MIT Museum, where the they are projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles that hang from the ceiling. They are also available online to network users, the data time-stamped and saved for up to 12 hours.

Red splotches on one map show the highest concentration of wireless users on campus. On another map, yellow dots with names written above them identify individual users, who pop up in different places depending where they're logged in.

"With these maps, you can see down to the room on campus how many people are logged on," said Carlo Ratti, director of the school's SENSEable City Laboratory, which created the maps. "You can even watch someone go from room to room if they have a handheld device that's connected."

Researchers use log files from the university's Internet service provider to construct the maps. The files indicate the number of users connected to each of MIT's more than 2,800 access points. The map that can pinpoint locations in rooms is 3-D, so researchers can even distinguish connectivity in multistoried buildings.

"Laptops and Wi-Fi are creating a revolutionary change in the way people work," Ratti said. The maps aim to "visualize these changes by monitoring the traffic on the wireless network and showing how people move around campus."

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"Many cities, including Philadelphia, are planning to go wireless. Something like our study will help them understand usage patterns and where best to invest," said researcher Andres Sevtsuk.

Sevtsuk likened the mapping project to a real-time census.

"Instead of waiting every year or every 10 years for data, you have new information every 15 minutes or so about the population of the campus," he said.

While every device connected to the campus network via Wi-Fi is visible on the constantly refreshed electronic maps, the identity of the users is confidential unless they volunteer to make it public.

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