Bruce writes: > I want to build a device that will 'fry' the RFID devices ...
George asks: > What exactly is it about these devices that scare you so? Greetings gents, There have been threads on this topic on our Off-Topic-List (see http://www.silverlist.org for subscription information) earlier this year. See: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/m780.html http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/m2633.html http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/m2634.html http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/m2635.html Picture sand-grain-sized transponders embedded discretely in fabrics, shoes, accessories, electronics of all sort, jewelry, media of all kinds, all paper money, even tubes of toothpaste. When RFID tags receive a pulse from a reader device they respond with a unique identifier code, using the energy of the query pulse to provide a brief trickle of power for their own circuitry. Obviously it's a pretty low power system with a range that'll probably top out at a handful of meters, if that, using typical equipment. It will be quite useful for inventory tracking and theft prevention in retail and industry. It might also be usable at longer ranges using *atypical* equipment. Now add the element of databases tracking your purchases, as are already in place at most major retailers. Sure you can pay cash, but it'd take quite a commitment to stay anonymous to any degree. Further, what if the spooks are finally authorized to access and/or link all these databases, as they've been clamoring to do for years now -- or they just go ahead and do it anyway. What if large consortia of business and financial interests simply agree to share marketing info with each other? Lastly, consider the monitoring of public spaces, such as each entrance and exit of every place of business or public building, toll gates, parking garages, rest-rooms at work, transportation systems, and so on... It's not hard to envision a future where each time you enter a store you're greeted by name by an automated system, and every "associate" will have a ready printout of everything you've bought in the last 6 months. Nor is it hard to see law enforcement scanning huge databases for public monitoring points for "hits" on objects that trace back to individuals, easily producing lists of suspects or allowing them to keep track of "persons of interest." In fact, all you need to do is rent the movie "Minority Report" and you'll have a pretty decent dramatization of the kind of world this could create. The current pilot programs are pretty modest. Wal-Mart is moving toward marking all *palletts* and *cases* of merchandies within the next couple of years. If it proves practical, they say that they will be moving ahead with marking all *merchandise* as well. I don't mind the idea of having all that personal information floating around, do you? Hey, I've got nothing to hide! Hehe. (If anybody wants to continue this thread beyond a handful of additional messages, I'd suggest we move it to the OT list.) Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
