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2007-09-05 Science & Technology
Forced "tagging" of humans with RFID chips- banned, for now
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Posted by NOLA 2007-09-05 01:43|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Forced "tagging" of humans with RFID chips- banned, for now

Damn we insist that at least these dangerous nincompoops get the "chips" and "pointed hats" at a minimum!!

1) Lawyers.
2) Politicians.
3) Tee Wee News Personalities.
4) Actors who Hate America and our War Fighters.
5) Islamists.
6) Commie-Rat-Bastids.


/linky at the top busted
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-09-05 08:01||   2007-09-05 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 For most on that list, I'd prefer a 5-point stake down with wet rawhide.
Posted by ed 2007-09-05 08:07||   2007-09-05 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3  Damn we insist that at least these dangerous nincompoops get the "chips" and "pointed hats" at a minimum!!
I can get behind that....I think we should throw child molesters on there. Just since they are likely to need to be found again.
Posted by NOLA">NOLA  2007-09-05 08:55||   2007-09-05 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 so with no link, this article is just rantburg bullshit
Posted by Slaviper Turkeyneck6460 2007-09-05 10:24||   2007-09-05 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Beep... Beep... Beep...
Posted by mojo">mojo  2007-09-05 10:56||   2007-09-05 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Being State legislators, I doubt that this law was crafted with any concern to the actual technology involved.

Right off the top of my head, I can think of several problems associated with this.

1) RFID is just one kind of device. Does it also mean other types of implantable high-tech tracking or other electronic information devices, such as microphones?

2) "Forced" tagging implies coercion. What if you use subterfuge instead, like putting it in their food?

3) Articles of clothing owned by the individual are not covered. Already RFID chips are incorporated into them from different manufacturers. If you have four different RFIDs in your clothing, you probably have a unique signature of four codes that few other people have at that moment, unless they are wearing the same kind of clothes from the same manufacturer at the same time you are.

4) RFIDs may also be used to identify prohibited items, for example contraband. By carrying such an RFID into your residence, it would create probable cause to issue a warrant to search your residence. Chain of evidence: he picked up the package with the RFID chip outside his door and carried it inside.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-05 11:18||   2007-09-05 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 So how do I get this thing off now?
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-09-05 15:20||   2007-09-05 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Ya gotta have the right tool.
Posted by ed 2007-09-05 15:47||   2007-09-05 15:47|| Front Page Top

#9 wtf my posts are not goign in
Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-05 16:22||   2007-09-05 16:22|| Front Page Top

#10 N u m b
n u t z

who said no link makes i burg bs? Just copy the busted link and clean it up. The poster screwed up by not putting a normal URL in there - he put in a tagged href, not the link itself.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-05 16:25||   2007-09-05 16:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Copy link, past it into this text box to post it, then clean it up like I did and you get the real link.


By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
September 4, 2007 10:03 AM

Your ignorance is not sufficient excuse for you to be a d i c k w e e d .
Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-05 16:27||   2007-09-05 16:27|| Front Page Top

#12 
dammit FRED! Your filter will not let me post the f**king corrected link!

Try the usual INformation Week website. Look for an article in the Security section
State Sen. Simitian calls forced "tagging" of humans with RFID chips the ultimate invasion of privacy.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-05 16:27||   2007-09-05 16:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Sorry for the multiple posts, but the filters prevented me from posting the link - its not the bad words that did it, it was the link. Apparently having java and html reference code causes the post to be silently discarded.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-05 16:28||   2007-09-05 16:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Don't feel too bad Old Spook we've all had a 'Buuurp or two here at the Burpen 'Burg Ranchero!

*Ahem*,

Recently I lost the most magnificent piece of RBee Oratorical Style Prose ever during the *Burpin 'Burg-Process* of posting it without a back up.. *sigh*!

Hopefully our RBee Burpee system is causing Indisgestion Supreme for the Spam-Bots and Hack-Meisters... Old Spook!

~:)
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-09-05 17:31||   2007-09-05 17:31|| Front Page Top

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