The boiling frog marketing plan for rfid chips is to set up all the technology requiring rfid chips in cards and then put the chips into your body and get rid of the cards. Rfid chips are data bases of all information on the holder (including personal papers, health care and consumer data) and gives corporate and government authorities the ability to pry into and control your personal business. They also serve as tracking devices.
First, require people to wear animal tags to get public or consumer services involving money, then require people to be tagged in their bodies. That’s the marketing plan and the plan for total control over people of the Nations and globe. Everything will be efficient, peaceful and safe.
The knee jerk reaction of obedience on this thread against people who reject this police state total control technology is pitifully careless and ignorant - third world thinking.
You are already tagged in your body.
Units which identify people from a distance via iris scanning, or facial mapping, currently exist and are in use. RFID just happens to be cheaper.
In a few years the other technologies, which do not involve RFID, will likely be cheap enough.
As far as burning out the RFID, the next step is to combine RFID with visual monitoring. A human seen in an RFID-required area whose RFID is not working will just have security come visit him, who will verify his identity and see to it that he gets a new RFID, and bill him for it. After having to pay $20-$50 every time you need a new RFID, the thrill will wear off.
Actually, the cards themselves don't actually contain the information. What the do contain is a transmitter and a very tiny computer chip that will, when activated. broadcast a 64-bit or 128-bit number. It is the number that identifies the holder of the card by way of a look-up table in the system reading the cards. I haven't looked through the RFCs for these chips in a long time, but I don't thinkthe protocol is, at present, set up so the cards need to have any more information than the identifying number.
Depending upon how it is implemented, the number broadcast may, or may not be encrypted. If the transmission is not encrypted, it is trivial to program another RFID chip to answer with any number desired. What would be cool, would be to determine the superintendant's ID number on his card, and have it showing up at random times in the girls's bathroom.
There are lots of ways to hack the system. A setup like this school could provide lots of opportunities for mischief.