Posted on 02/20/2007 5:09:22 AM PST by Calpernia
"It would seem that a device to cripple those tags is what is needed."
There are plenty - a hammer or pliers or a microwave or...
Look at this!
http://www.tagzapper.com/
>>>>under-skin liquid *tattoo* tag
Gee, sounds reminiscent of translucent inks....
Jacobus Lambertus Lentz, collaborated with the Nazis in 1941 to improve the existing ID cards and data processing systems.
August 17 (1941), Lentz devised a unique tamper-proof personal identification card that could not be forged. Translucent inks were employed to print key words that disappeared under a quartz lamp. The stamp franking was acetone-soluble. Photos of the individual were affixed front and back through a window transparently sealed and adhered with permanennt glue. A fingerprint of the person's right index finger was then impressed upon one of the photos so it always displayed through a small window. The individual's signature on watermarked paper completed the document, which included personal details.
Having created an ID Card, Lentz then anticipated the occupying Nazis demands for censuses and lists of Jews and non-Jewish slave labourers (categorised by skills and education), which were used for the mass arrests and deportations, through his IBM Hollerith punched card analyses.
I am ready!
Lentz said that too.
I've got stock in ADSX. As well as cigerettes, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals. I'm a bad person.
"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."
I disagree with this statement. People deep in debt can be a liability to a company, especially if they have access to accounts, or equipment to hock on ebay. They can also be bribed for all the above.
That's why I'm skeptical of UFOs of extr-terristerial origin. If ETs wanted to monitor us nano is the way to go.
You're a bad investor - so these two bads add to zero I guess ;-)
There will a rally at the Texas state capital in Austin on March 2nd. "DON'T TAG TEXAS" will be a joint protest against toll roads and animal tagging. There expecting a crowd of over 100,000. Wish I could be there but, have previous engagements.
Someone posted a thread on that rally. I forwarded it to Walter who sent it out to our NoNais activists.
http://nonais.org/
Two students turned a disposable camera into a gadget that shocks the life out of RFID tags; now, a privacy advocacy group hopes to sell devices based on their design.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/2098/1/1/
How to Kill RFID Tags with a Cell Phone
http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=kill_rfid_by_cell_phone&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Amen. "Corporate America" just wants your money. Government wants your money and your soul.
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.
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