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  • 23rd July 2008

    Video of the Day - RFIDs and the National ID card

    This is a scary video about the new bill that has been enacted that will eventually result in the national id card which will include rfid technology. This can be scary in the hands of those with less than good intentions.

    What are your thoughts on rfids?

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    26th January 2008

    RFID Powder, the MU-CHIP - so small it can be attached to anything to track anything

    Hitachi has recently developed the tiniest RFID chip yet…

    This chip is the harbinger of a brave new era where almost anything can be discreetly tagged and read by a scanner that it only has to be near to read. I say in five years there will be no need for cashiers…. you account will simply be charged on the way out of the store via scanners in the door ways.

    Here is a pretty crappy video about the new smallness of these chips:

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    24th October 2007

    Children Monitored via RFID Enabled Uniforms in South Yorkshire

    According to the Times Online, children are being tracked by micro-chips embedded in their uniforms in a trial at a secondary school.

    “The devices are used to monitor pupils’ movements and register their arrival in class on the teacher’s computer. Supply teachers can also be alerted if a student is likely to misbehave.

    The chip connects with teachers’ computers to show a photograph of the pupil, data about academic performance and whether he or she is in the correct classroom. It can also restrict access to areas of the school. The radio frequency identification system is being tested at Hungerhill School in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Ten pupils began wearing a chip sewn into their uniforms eight months ago.”

    The scheme has drawn criticism from human rights campaigners. “Tagging is what we do to criminals we let out of prison early,” said David Cleater, from Leave Them Kids Alone, which campaigns against the finger-printing of pupils. “It is appalling.”

    via the arch blog

    RFID mappings 5

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    25th June 2007

    Anti RFID legislation in CA, Limits Implants of ID Devices

    Haven’t seen anything about RFIDs for awhile, although I knew that they would pop up again.
    clipped from slashdot.org

    RFID Industry Fights Ca. Bills that Limit Crazy RFID Use.

    California Democratic Sen. Joe Simitian has several proposals to limit RFID use, like baning employers or anyone else from requiring a person to have radio frequency identification devices implanted. Even this small measure of privacy protection is too much for the RFID makers:

    Critics of the measures say the focus should be on preventing inappropriate use of RFIDs, not preventing the use of the technology. Roxanne Gould, vice president for California government relations for the American Electronics Association … said Simitian is taking the wrong approach, although her organization hasnt taken a position on the implant bill.

    Our bottom line is were opposed to anything that demonizes RFIDs,

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    15th February 2007

    Another Reason to Love the Prospect of Mass Death… Freedom of Information powerpoint on early Iraqi war plans

    MORE VALENTINE WISHES FOR MASS DEATH! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

    with global warming now supposedly confirmed by the colder temperatures (climate destabilization? what?)

    snippet from here: Early Iraq war plan: only 5,000 troops to remain there by Dec. ‘06

    Snip from an announcement published at George Washington University’s National Security Archive website:



    The U.S. Central Command’s war plan for invading Iraq postulated in August 2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006, according to the Command’s PowerPoint briefing slides, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive.

    Boing Boing

    jeez lets just get it over with and initiate Armageddon already… its what the Iranian spiritual supreme wants anyway….. lets give them what they want already……


    BIG BOOMS

    Tsarbmb.jpg

    the largest nuclear explosion ever achieved was a test….

    http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html


    ITS OK THOUGH, RFIDS TURN TO POWDER? NEW SMALL AS A PINHEAD RFID TRACKER:

    courtesy of pink tentacle:


    LITTLE BOOMS

    http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/02/hitachi-develops-rfid-powder/

    (edited on Feb. 19th 2007 -I removed a picture from pinktentacle.com and added the following picture from wiki commons)

    rfid enlarged

    yes that is a little dot on a finger. That little guy can track your information with 128 bit ROM. Great… I give up now, go ahead and track me, you will see that I am a good consumer, I promise….

    hope you earthlings enjoyed….stay tuned for more.

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    29th January 2007

    A Better way to Exploit the Consumer - Personalized Billboards

    Taken from this international herald tribune article:

    Four American cities will see talking billboards starting today. Mini Cooper, of all companies, will provide customers with personalized messages as they approach the billboards based on the information stored in their key fobs. You know, dear readers, that this is just a sugar coated RFID like device that is just the start of things to come. You already see it at your local Exxon station with the friendly happy ‘Speedpass’. That exxon tiger just makes me feel all warm inside, how about you? Take a look at exxons campaign contributions…

    It will be dubbed as convenience when you no longer have to wait in checkout lines at stores, you will simply swipe your RFID enabled card and your account will automatically be deducted. Maybe not even swipe anything, maybe as you walk out of the door, the sensors will read the items you have on your person and charge your account the amount necessary and a little light will turn from red to green and the exit door of the store will open to let you leave. GOODBYE PETTY THEIVES!

    It will be dubbed useful when your children will wear bracelets as homing devices to keep them within range at all times, since it is already being used in some prisons for the same purposes.

    No one will call it evil. No one will call it the mark of the beast, except maybe some right wing extremists. All I can say is that I hope that these devices will be secured with some +260 bit encryption to protect from the newly spawned and spawning RFID hackers who will lie in wait by RFID drive thru ATMs and RFID enabled clothes stores. Anytime you use it for purchase, there is an opportunity for the hacker to steal your account information.

    So invest in security folks. Invest in big brother because it is too late to fight it. Maybe I’ve already been implanted… I had a dream the other night that a voice inside my head was talking about ‘uploading’ and being ‘almost finished’ and then the voice reported success, and then I woke up. And now I have a mysterious red mark the width of a needle on the right side of my temple.


    look familiar?

    Guess it will just make me a good consumer. So get out and buy stuff will your old debit cards while you can, RFID enabled cards will be coming, and these old cards will be the stuff of retro-mania very soon.

    - check out my previous RFID posts here

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    22nd September 2006

    After Katrina New Orleans has a New Stadium - I guess Reconstructing Peoples Homes Can Wait til Later - Its Football Season After All…

    THE CONSTANT SKEPTICs THOUGHTS ON THE NEW STADIUM IN NEW ORLEANS ADMIST THE HALF-REBUILT RUINS OF A GREAT TOWN:

    A very good post by Keeping Tabs on Keith Olbermann talks about how the New Orleans Saints have a new stadium ready for this Monday night’s big first game there.

    Also a post about how New Orleans sold out their season tickets for the first time ever…..

    what is this gonna be - trickle down revenue to pay for rebuilding costs? Or money grubbing investors sacking the ruined city and buying up everything in sight while everything is relatively cheap?

    Active Rain’s Post states that: ESPN’s Joe Theismann says it best:

    “I do believe in my heart of hearts that this region does not get enough of the attention that it deserves. I think that people feel like, ‘OK, Bourbon Street is back up, the French Quarter is back up, New Orleans is back.’ It’s my job and it’s our job to tell the world that New Orleans still has a long way to go.”

    Active-rain also states that the Lower 9th, St. Bernard, Plaquemines are still devastated residential areas.

    But of course, the rich get richer, and the poor move out or drown and get their bodies tagged and implanted with RFID devices for tracking/identification purposes, as I posted back in 2005, not to mention good PR for the company, who didn’t charge FEMA for the use of the implants, which usually run +100$ each, how nice of them, don’t you think?

    But nothing stands in the way of good-clean double-think, thought-controlled - American FOOTBALL!!

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    posted in RFID, gloom and catastrophes, unlabeled |

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