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cadenas -> RE: Obama extends health care rights to gay partners (4/17/2010 8:49:57 AM)
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A couple facts about RFIDs:
- DVDs/CDs/etc. are currently NOT usually tagged with RFIDs. The device that have been "swished over a magnet" actually is a simple security device. It does not have any identification in it; they are all the same (what the swishing over a magnet actually does is overload the current through the antenna of this device, burning it).
- US passports do contain larger RFID tags that can be read from 33 feet away.
- RFIDs do come in extremely small sizes (Hitachi makes one 0.15x0.15 mm). It would be entirely feasible to put an RFID chip into, say, a pill or an injection. It doesn't make sense, though, because these RFID chips can only be read from a few millimeters away.
- larger RFIDs (the size of a grain of rice) are available in implantable form. They are routinely implanted in both animals and, more recently, humans. For instance, some top-level Mexican government officials have it as access control devices.
- RFIDs cannot EVER be used to find somebody anywhere on the planet. RFIDs can only be read from at most 100 feet away.
- RFID tags contain basically just a serial number, nothing else.
- RFIDs ARE very scary in terms of privacy, but few people understand what the real problems are.
For instance:
- The RFID chip in a US passport can be used by terrorist to trigger a bomb on when an American tourist walks by.
- The jeans you just bought at Walmart may soon contain an RFID chip. Every time you wear these jeans and walk into a Walmart store, Walmart can track exactly where you are.
- Once RFID readers are ubiquitous (and that is just a matter of time), the serial number of the same jeans will also show up on the RFID scanners at Starbucks, Target.
- Once RFID readers are on every street corner (just as cameras on London streets are today), the police will be able to track your movement throughout the city from one RFID reader to the next by the minute.
Those are real dangers or RFIDs. Injecting them without consent isn't one of the problems we are likely going to have to solve.
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail
The 20 footer RFIDs are too large to fit in even the largest needle that can be inserted into man without cakking him. Visible to the naked eye. hunkie, if he owns any dvds or certain other hard goods that may have been swished over a magnet at the checkout already has RFIDs in his house.
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