tazzygirl
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ORIGINAL: thornhappy I know I've said it before, but Jesus Christ on a unicycle, this is fuckin' impossible. The "camera pill" is 11x26 mm, not some teeny fart of a thing. I've said this before too, and so have several others, that you have to be very close to an RFID reader to get any response. As much as everyone wants to state emphatically that this cannot happen... it can. These tiny RFID tags could be worked into any product; combined with RFID readers built into doorways, theft of consumer goods would be practically impossible. It's not clear from the references provided, but even if this chip needs an external antenna, the attached antenna would be a tiny ribbon of wire more narrow than a human hair and only a fraction of an inch long. How far away could you be, and still read the information from this "powder RFID?" The source article is very thin; however, the mu-chip mentioned earlier is readable from a distance of 25 centimeters (about ten inches) with an external antenna like the one mentioned in the preceding paragraph. This doesn't sound like much, but it's certainly enough to read people going through doorways, for example. These devices could also be used to identify and track people. For example, suppose you participated in some sort of protest or other organized activity. If police agencies sprinkled these tags around, every individual could be tracked and later identified at leisure, with powerful enough tag scanners. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=939
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