Category: Arphid
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ZDNet agrees with me RFID passports are Stupid & Risky
Panic + stupid = RFID passports In 9/11’s aftermath panic ruled the nation’s domestic security bureaucracies, Congress and the White House. Paranoid mid-level bureaucrats were given free rein to “innovate” and guess what popped up? RFID tags in your passport. And now they are adding them to driver’s licenses too. via RFID passports: a tragedy…
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Arphid Watch: Implantable GPS “Killer Chip” creates press flap | Beyond The Beyond
Bruce Sterling, in Wired’s ARPHID Watch says: *I’m surprised that Verichip didn’t think to promote this scheme themselves. *People are reacting with predictable shock, shock, (((none more gleefully than io9, presumably because the puckish editor’s got a Verichip in her))) but the “invention” here is dead simple: in principle, it’s an electronic parole device with…
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Arphie the arphid, & a Look into the Future – New Media Research Studio
Would you have a chip implanted in your body to address a disability? Would you implant one for convenience? If one is not enough, how many are too many? Arphids are not neutral technology though it is easy to miss the point where having one on a credit card morphs into an implant…. We haven’t…
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Arphie the Arphid, a little comic – New Media Research Studio
Arphie the Arphid, a little comic – New Media Research Studio. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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Excellent podcast on privacy risks of RFIDs
Image via Wikipedia Excellent podcast on privacy risks of RFIDs. From boingboing and Surveillance Nation. I love the image of “every dude walking around with a thirty foot cloud of data emanating from his pants is so tantalizing that it invites sinister conspiracies.” If you haven’t read about RFID tags, you might want to. Got…
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Where is your passport — ARPHID hacked from a passing car
YouTube – Cloning passport card RFIDs in bulk for under $250. Researcher doesn’t believe that ARPHID (RFID) for identifying people is not a safe or secure. We should re-do how we keep our identity as a country and globally now, before we are all walking around broadcasting our info. Many governments would love to be…
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Update on the RFID (ARPHIDS) in our Passports
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeHere is Senator Dick Durbin’s response to my question about the security of the RFID in new passports. I don’t have one in my passport, so I can’t test this out, but will continue to check into the matter. October 22, 2008 Dear Ms. Iverson: Thank you for contacting me…
Barbara K Iverson 