Tag: RFID
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This is useful for sensors that cannot be deployed with a guaranteed orientation, such as those dropped from aircraft. NDSU Develops “Smart” Paper and Antennaless RFID Tags This is more about the RFID research at North Dakota. I don’t find this comforting, either.
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RFID lanyards track cancer patients through hospital
Image via Wikipedia And tracks the employees, too, if someone wants to do that. This is one of the uses of ARPHID that might be appropriate. If you are ill and being carted around the hospital, if wait times can be reduced, that may be positive. I only wonder how long before they dispense with…
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Carbon nanotube RFID labels possibly toxic, just what environment needs now
Beyond The Beyond Just another WordPress weblog Arphid Watch: carbon nanotube RFID labels * By Bruce Sterling Email Author * March 27, 2010 | * 12:52 pm | * Categories: Arphid Watch *At last: cheap throwaway possibly toxic tracking labels that are both “arphids” and “buckyjunk” at the same time. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24852/?nlid=2850&a=f via Arphid Watch: carbon…
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Security is just an implanted RFID away
YouTube – HERE IS THE RFID MICROCHIP TV ADVERT 100% PROOF IT IS HERE.
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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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AP Story Finally Pulls Together Threats of RFID in Passports
Image via Wikipedia Since officials decided to put RFID chips in jewelry for girls and dog-tags for boys in middle school in Celebration, Florida, I’ve been writing about the efficiencies these “radio frequency identification devices” bring to commercial and organizational transactions, while threatening privacy and the security of our personal information. In California, mothers rallied…
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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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