What will you do when the microchip becomes mainstream?

Hmm. I'll have to look into it more. ... But I noticed something while reading the last post...


 
LOL, Nice observation Busta. :)

I think the hardest thing for me to swallow is the level of importance people are putting on the information or the reason of implimentaion of RFID tags on your person. Altering, damaging, or rendering these devices usless is trivial, and all you need to do is stand in Grand Central Station for the day (or someplace like it) to have an attack be effective. I think my favorite idea is to radiate the chip with RF to make it hot. It'd be like a hot poker under your skin!! :D

Discussions like this, as well as others that are more technical, are important because we either have to mitigate the risks (or make the losses acceptable), or bag the notion that it's a good idea all together.
 
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleprint/2607/-1/1
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/10/rfid/index.html

70 feet away, so much for inches. As far as the encryption goes, for it to be universally acceptable the encryption will also have to be universal.

And we all know how often DVD encryption is broken.

It is virtually impossible for RFID to be secure enough for use as a personal ID tag. And it would be irresponsible to allow it to happen.

This is like walking around with your name, address, phone number, social security number, and any other piece of information thats needed to positively identify you printed on your back for everyone to see.

This is all a thief needs to steal your identity. Don't be foolish into believing the propaganda bullshit that people who are out to monetarily benefit from RFID dish out.

Its ok for walmart, but your life?
 
Darkdante said:
This is like walking around with your name, address, phone number, social security number, and any other piece of information thats needed to positively identify you printed on your back for everyone to see.
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This is a misconception. Currently RFID has memory limitations, thus restricting what information is contained on the chip.

But, if you get the identifier from a person, you can get their information from the central repository, assuming you can get access. And don't be quick to assume that getting access would be a challange for a determined organization.
 
Memory limitations? That won't last for long. Those Micro SD cards you can get at Wal-Mart are the size of my fingernail.

Microsd_size_comparison.jpg
 
I wouldn't mind a chip implant. If it made life easier for things such as directing emergency personel to my location if I'm in trouble, or just shopping, all the better.

On the issue of tracking: I don't mind. Quite honestly, I have nothing to hide. If such a chip makes those who actually do have reason to fear uneasy, it's probably a good thing. Making criminals easier to catch is a good thing.

That said, the government doesn't want to track me. I'm boring. I'd have sympathy for any technician given the duty of overseeing my day to day activities from a control center two miles underground in the middle of a southwestern desert military base somewhere. The government doesn't want to track any of you either. Are we good people? Certainly. Are we important to the government? Probably not. FFXI 3rd party software, less than ethically acquired MP3's and a stash of internet porn don't make a threat to national security. Not yet anyway.
 
Pompidou said:
I have nothing to hide. If such a chip makes those who actually do have reason to fear uneasy, it's probably a good thing. Making criminals easier to catch is a good thing.
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Thing is, just because you don't have nothing to hide now, why wouldn't that be true in the future. It has happened countless times in history where a good/fair gorvement goes evil. Something like critizising the goverment can become illegal something you could be jailed over.

That said, the government doesn't want to track me. I'm boring. I'd have sympathy for any technician given the duty of overseeing my day to day activities from a control center two miles underground in the middle of a southwestern desert military base somewhere. The government doesn't want to track any of you either. Are we good people? Certainly. Are we important to the government? Probably not. FFXI 3rd party software, less than ethically acquired MP3's and a stash of internet porn don't make a threat to national security. Not yet anyway.
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There was a book written, where the goverments would have cameras in your own home, now they didn't have the manpower to actively monitor them all, it was mean to by a physcological effect that they "could" be watching you. Why would this matter if you had nothing to hide?

Because things can change all so suddenly, look at china or north korea and how they try to control their people, read up on the cencorship tactics of china, or how people in north korea all wear a pin with the leader's picture on them. If you think that could never happen to us, take a look at the history of the world. (or better yet, google up "free speech zones")
 
Daveman said:
There was a book written, where the goverments would have cameras in your own home, now they didn't have the manpower to actively monitor them all, it was mean to by a physcological effect that they "could" be watching you. Why would this matter if you had nothing to hide?
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Along the same lines, one would hope that having a big surveilance system would "chill" everyone to the point where they wouldn't commit crimes. The same way the cameras at traffic lights aren't always manned but they're designed to make people not want to possibly get caught and therefore not run red lights.
 
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