Re: Big Brother getting Bigger

From: Gordon Couger (gcouger_at_NOSPAMprovalue.net)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:07:51 -0500

"Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
news:416D6C7C.BB64237A@hate.spam.net...
> jitney wrote:
> >
> > The FDA has just approved the use of an implantable computer chip in
> > humans, from the AP wire:
> >
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2004/oct/13/101309941.html
> >
> > Expect Big Brother to tell us it will only be used for good
> > purposes.-Jitney
>
> When you see the size of the implantation needle your brain will start
> screaming inside your skull. Anybody with a portable RF interrogator
> will be able to query your implant from up to about 5 feet away. Once
> the data is collected it can be impersonated. Cf: radar jamming and
> "anti-kindapping" chips; the second make of the "Thomas Crown Affair"
> with bowler-wearing clones at the end.
>
> The minimal requirement for a security chip would be on-the-fly deep
> encryption. The DES standard is both laughable and backdoored by the
> NSA.
>
> OTOH, A Mobil gasoline thingie is keyring small and very convenient.
> Mobil has gone to secondary verification required for its use, since
> anybody with an RF interrogator...
>
Al,

I was consulting on a problem of using RF ID tags for kids track them on and
off school busses. At the current state of the art of inexpensive equipment
the technology is not good enough unless the kit submits the pass in a small
area when he enters or exists the bus.

I think I can probably make a loop antenna in the door that will ID them on
the way through be no one has put up the green for the project.

The scary part was I said, "the system is not secure anyway unless you
implant the chip because the kids will switch ID cards or take their friends
on the bus while the kid skips school any way."

The scary part was a lot of people saw nothing at all wrong with implanting
their kids with RF ID tags and many thought it was a great idea. Giving the
school and any one else with the ability to read the tags the ability to
track their kids. 

-- 
Gordon
Gordon Couger www.rfdata.net
Stillwater, OK
www.couger.com/gcouger
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