[TigerLikesRooster]

With bugs in billions of items, do we have enough bandwith to take care of them ? We may need more satellites, transmitters, and fiberoptic cables.

On the other hand, stripping these bugs will be a major growth business. Thieves want to get rid of them before stealing these goods. People want to eliminate from their everyday items these bugs planted without their knowledge.

All of us could end up spending a lot of time, spying on others or freeing ourselves from such pesky bugs.

[Rebelbase]

"Tiny IDs can track almost anything (a bug in underwear)"

No bug could survive in my underwear.

[DainBramage]

All roads lead to the landfill.

[metesky]

It seems pretty easy to cut the tags out of clothing items but cars and things with embedded chips will be harder to deal with.

Between black boxes and embedded chips it sounds like used cars, etc. will be hot with folks who value privacy.

It really could be bad for some industies.

[uglybiker]

So, is that a tracking device in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

[American in Israel]

"In the first Gulf war, they sent 20,000 containers and had to open 16,000 to find out what was inside," he said.

Perhaps they should try reading the lables on the boxes. When I see such obvious self-justification, it raises red flags for me. I am sure there will be a nice market for home brew bug sniffers and emp neutralizers.

I find it interesting that police have to get a warrent to plant a bug, but a manufacturer does not.

[djf]

Nothing that about 4 seconds in the microwave can't handle.

[Chemist_Geek]

With bugs in billions of items, do we have enough bandwith to take care of them ? We may need more satellites, transmitters, and fiberoptic cables.

No. Part 15 RFID tags are a threat to all sorts of radio services - their emissions will splatter all over the spectrum, and will interfere with the very consumer electronics they are meant to track.

ARRL comments on RFID tags.

[joesnuffy]

Microwave your shorts

[boris]

This is great! Now they can find out where your socks go in the laundry!

--Boris

[FreeInWV]

I'm sure Dianne Fineswine, Chuck Schumer and Hitlery like this idea. Just think of all of the guns & ammo that they would be able to track (for the good of the children!).

[RaceBannon]

(Rev 13:16 KJV) And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

(Rev 13:17 KJV) And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

(Rev 13:18 KJV) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

[_Jim]

Tiny IDs can track almost anything (a bug in underwear)

Grossly misleading headline alert - re-written properly it would say: "Tiny IDs [allow] track[ing] [of] almost anything".

A certain level of supporing infrastructure is *still* required ...

[honeygrl]

Well, I can see a lot of good coming out of this for businesses (costs going down with loss prevention) and for people looking for missing persons BUT it really makes me worry about misuse of it and who has access to knowing where me and my stuff is. I mean.. you wouldn't want a stalker being able to track you using your underwear. And there are a lot of intelligent criminals out there who will likely find a way to mess up the bugs and get around it.

[Consort]

Nano nannies. Crack spies.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Do not remove this microchip under penalty of law.

[steplock]

I don't wear underwear!

Nyah Nyah!

[LizardQueen]

http://store4.yimg.com/I/buyinprivate_1733_2543122

[samuel_adams_us]

Geez, criminals will have a new way to make lots of money, just counterfeit a few of these chips and id theft will have a whole new meaning.

[AnnaZ]

"We have the technology and a roadmap that takes us there," Mr. Pound said.

 

;^)

[Paul C. Jesup]

In the future I see a market for high-powered eletro-magnets.