Re: Big Brother getting Bigger

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 10/24/04

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    Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:47:45 -0700

    Gordon Couger wrote:
    >
    > "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.

    We know what Heinlein thought of any society with mandatory IDs - time
    to leave. Wouldn't it be great if we could add 100 mg of HMX and a
    detonator? Criminals would no longer have to be imprisoned. Or an
    explosive collar. Or a pain chip. Or pre-crime... 

    -- 
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