What the future holds for RFID
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Always a pleasure! Gotta spread the word! This stuff's too Orwellian to ignore or not keep tabs on, IMO! No pun intended.SETIsLady wrote: smadewell, thanks for keeping this thread up to date
Liz McIntyre: A counter argument to RFIDs for sex offenders
01:43 PM CST on Sunday, March 26, 2006
RFID isn't the answer to saving our children from sex offenders. Tagging sexual perverts would merely provide a false sense of security.
As Michelle Cottle points out, "pervs" bent on victimizing children and escaping Megan's Law registration requirements will thumb their noses at the system – even an RFID system. It's a bloody mess removing implantable RFID microchips, like the VeriChip, but it can be done. What's more, a researcher has already demonstrated how he can clone the unique identification number on a VeriChip. Yes, someone could pretend to be someone else – or somewhere else.
Pawning off the monitoring of child predators to an easily thwarted technology like RFID is not only naive, it's foolhardy. All of us want to protect our kids, and Ms. Cottle is doing us all a disservice by pandering to parents' worst fears.
Thankfully, the sexual pervert pool is an infinitesimal segment of society, but that's exactly the reason RFID promoters will not be satisfied limiting their tagging to predators. Innocent people are going to get caught up in this web of surveillance.
Katherine Albrecht and I have documented evidence, in the words of companies themselves, on how they plan to tag and track every manufactured product on the face of the earth, and thus every person who buys them.
The more accustomed our society becomes to RFID chips, the easier it will be to persuade people to give up essential liberties for the appearance of safety.
LIZ McINTYRE of Austin is co-author,
with Katherine Albrecht, of "Spychips"
(http://www.spychips.com). Her e-mail address
is [email protected].
S.Madewell - "If the truth shall kill a man ... let him die!"
Listen to yourself! Chip anyone and you're next! Set aside the issue of "forced" chipping for a moment. Ever seen the movie GATTACA?lorne wrote: CHIP the illegal aliens first!
Even if no one is forced to take the chip, which will eventually evolve into an Arthur C. Clarke ("Hammer of God") type brainman, what'll be created is a new breed of superhumans, who, because of their enhanced abilities, will get the plum jobs. And what of those who don't bother to "enhance" themselves? They'll become second class citizens!
The Powers-That-Be (PTBs) have a single agenda -- find, develop and implement the most effective and efficient means of controlling the masses.
What we see now with Verichips and RFID tags are just the low-TEK models. Yes, their use will increase and in turn this will allow the supporting infrastructure to be built and give the PTBs the ability to test the invisible control grid and correct flaws, etc., etc., etc.
What's coming down the pike is far more sinister! Make no mistake about it! I know the PTBs already have a lot of low-TEK ways to track and control us, but their desired goal is to have at their disposal the all-in-one Holy Grail of "control".
They want a single TEK that's tamper proof, that can track our every move, while being able to deliver the pain of an Intestinator - shades of the movie FORTRESS - and the mind numbing pleasure of Huxley's SOMA.
I'm not saying the technology is evil, but I am saying that those who will control it are, because it's their agenda to become the gods of pleasure and pain!
Wake up people! The first person who is forced to be chipped won't be the last! Even if they don't force it ... eventually ... those who don't take it "willingly" will become second class citizens and eventually they'll become as obsolete as Romney Wordsworth (actor Burgess Meredith's character in "The Twilight Zone" episode entitled, "The Obsolete Man").
Our country is being setup from within and from without! Like Esau, we've sold our birthright for a bowl of freaking beans! Well, maybe not for beans. More like ... the privilege to surf for porn on the Internet, watch Monday Night Football, suck down a few brews, nosh on a bag of chips and smoke ourselves silly.
Ah! Life in the Lazy Boy! Ain't it grand? Sure is! Right up until the Supreme Leader asks us to bend over! Hello Caligula! I apologize for the vulgar imagery, but ... we are setting ourselves up for a huge fall!
Sheeple.... I'm surrounded by sheeple.... Why do I even bother? Pfft!
SETIsLady! Help me out here!
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S.Madewell - "If the truth shall kill a man ... let him die!"
Enough to make a difference? Why can't these people see where these baby-steps are leading?SETIsLady wrote: because some of us are reading my friend
It's not the choir who needs to open their ears! This is going to lead to a Civil War, IMO. It'll be a handful of people in-the-know against their neighbors and the jack-booted Minions of the PTBs. There won't be any options left open to us....
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S.Madewell - "If the truth shall kill a man ... let him die!"
smadewell wrote: Enough to make a difference? Why can't these people see where these baby-steps are leading?
Like I said before the PTB's have everyone jumping up and down , back and forth. Too busy to pay attention to some of these other things that are creeping up on us. I am convinced the world is going mad
Smade, we have to keep up the fight because you never know when you will reach someone new.
couldn't have said it better.I'm not saying the technology is evil, but I am saying that those who will control it are,
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China's human ID program to drive major RFID adoption
China is adopting RFID technology on an unprecedented scale, with more than 2.9 billion tags forecast to be shipped by 2009, according to a new report by In-Stat.
Last year, more than 100 million tags were shipped to the country. But through 2009, the government's second-generation Resident ID Card program is expected to significantly accelerate the adoption of RFID, said In-Stat.
"With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Ministry of Public Security is one of the biggest RFID projects in the world," says In-Stat analyst Anty Zheng, in a statement.
More than one billion ID cards will be issued by 2009, Zheng said. Beginning in 2008, RFID tags used for items would exceed those resident ID cards, making the retail industry the biggest consumer of tags.
However, incompatible RFID standards remain an obstacle for an open supply chain that crosses industries and territories, said the researchers.
And tag prices in the country are still relatively expensive, ranging from about 15 cents to more than $200 per tag.
In the US, the so-called magic price point for the widespread adoption of RFID is widely thought to be under 10 cents per tag. Currently, the average price of RFID tags in the US is about 15 cents.
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.a ... 35F06160CE
its only a matter of time now.
Last year, more than 100 million tags were shipped to the country. But through 2009, the government's second-generation Resident ID Card program is expected to significantly accelerate the adoption of RFID, said In-Stat.
"With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Ministry of Public Security is one of the biggest RFID projects in the world," says In-Stat analyst Anty Zheng, in a statement.
More than one billion ID cards will be issued by 2009, Zheng said. Beginning in 2008, RFID tags used for items would exceed those resident ID cards, making the retail industry the biggest consumer of tags.
However, incompatible RFID standards remain an obstacle for an open supply chain that crosses industries and territories, said the researchers.
And tag prices in the country are still relatively expensive, ranging from about 15 cents to more than $200 per tag.
In the US, the so-called magic price point for the widespread adoption of RFID is widely thought to be under 10 cents per tag. Currently, the average price of RFID tags in the US is about 15 cents.
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.a ... 35F06160CE
its only a matter of time now.
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Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip By Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer - posted: 27 March 2006 - 11:36 am ET
The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed "neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together.
The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers using living neurons.
To create the neuro-chip, researchers squeezed more than 16,000 electronic transistors and hundreds of capacitors onto a silicon chip just 1 millimeter square in size.
They used special proteins found in the brain to glue brain cells, called neurons, onto the chip. However, the proteins acted as more than just a simple adhesive.
"They also provided the link between ionic channels of the neurons and semiconductor material in a way that neural electrical signals could be passed to the silicon chip," said study team member Stefano Vassanelli from the University of Padua in Italy.
The proteins allowed the neuro-chip's electronic components and its living cells to communicate with each other. Electrical signals from neurons were recorded using the chip's transistors, while the chip's capacitors were used to stimulate the neurons.
It could still be decades before the technology is advanced enough to treat neurological disorders or create living computers, the researchers say, but in the nearer term, the chips could provide an advanced method of screening drugs for the pharmaceutical industry.
"Pharmaceutical companies could use the chip to test the effect of drugs on neurons, to quickly discover promising avenues of research," Vassanelli said.
The researchers are now working on ways to avoid damaging the neurons during stimulation. The team is also exploring the possibility of using a neuron's genetic instructions to control the neuro-chip.
LiveScience Staff Writer - posted: 27 March 2006 - 11:36 am ET
The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed "neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together.
The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers using living neurons.
To create the neuro-chip, researchers squeezed more than 16,000 electronic transistors and hundreds of capacitors onto a silicon chip just 1 millimeter square in size.
They used special proteins found in the brain to glue brain cells, called neurons, onto the chip. However, the proteins acted as more than just a simple adhesive.
"They also provided the link between ionic channels of the neurons and semiconductor material in a way that neural electrical signals could be passed to the silicon chip," said study team member Stefano Vassanelli from the University of Padua in Italy.
The proteins allowed the neuro-chip's electronic components and its living cells to communicate with each other. Electrical signals from neurons were recorded using the chip's transistors, while the chip's capacitors were used to stimulate the neurons.
It could still be decades before the technology is advanced enough to treat neurological disorders or create living computers, the researchers say, but in the nearer term, the chips could provide an advanced method of screening drugs for the pharmaceutical industry.
"Pharmaceutical companies could use the chip to test the effect of drugs on neurons, to quickly discover promising avenues of research," Vassanelli said.
The researchers are now working on ways to avoid damaging the neurons during stimulation. The team is also exploring the possibility of using a neuron's genetic instructions to control the neuro-chip.
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Have discussed this elsewhere/elsewhen - and no way -no thanks.
There are a few areas - very few but yes exceptions.
Before all this "chip" bit became so discussed, I ran into a prototype being worn (note worn not embedded) in a wrist patch by a woman in a shopping center. She suffered seizures and had for several years been confined to her home because of these seizures. The chip (which was considerably larger than these) was worn in a wrist brace that allowed her to actually leave her home and do some of the simple things - like go shopping. Granted it was still (at that time) limited to the city metro area (signal limitation) - but she was able to go about a semi-normal lifestyle.
Another incident where a worn chip-pack was a life saving device was with an alzheimer patient who wandered away from his nursing home center during winter. It was stormy and temps dropping into negative digits. He was found by tracking his chip-pack. He suffered frostbite -- could have been far worse. A similar patient who lacked a chip-pack wandered away from another nursing care center in winter. She died - exposure to cold.
SO there are a few "good" things out there for chip bit. Though would rather see the chip-pack used in those medical type situations for those in real need - not the proposed uses.
There are a few areas - very few but yes exceptions.
Before all this "chip" bit became so discussed, I ran into a prototype being worn (note worn not embedded) in a wrist patch by a woman in a shopping center. She suffered seizures and had for several years been confined to her home because of these seizures. The chip (which was considerably larger than these) was worn in a wrist brace that allowed her to actually leave her home and do some of the simple things - like go shopping. Granted it was still (at that time) limited to the city metro area (signal limitation) - but she was able to go about a semi-normal lifestyle.
Another incident where a worn chip-pack was a life saving device was with an alzheimer patient who wandered away from his nursing home center during winter. It was stormy and temps dropping into negative digits. He was found by tracking his chip-pack. He suffered frostbite -- could have been far worse. A similar patient who lacked a chip-pack wandered away from another nursing care center in winter. She died - exposure to cold.
SO there are a few "good" things out there for chip bit. Though would rather see the chip-pack used in those medical type situations for those in real need - not the proposed uses.
The Borg are coming!
Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip
That's the interface portion of the system. For what? For the exoskeleton the StormTroopers of the future will wear to kick our rebel butts, of course! Sci-Fi you say? Guess again! Again, the RFID and Verichip (et al) is just to get people use to the idea and thereby get them ready to become Borg, if you will. Well, users of the "brainman" at best and Borg at worst.
Scientists make 'bionic' musclesScientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen.
And they could eventually be used to make more advanced prosthetic limbs, say researchers at University of Texas.
Writing in Science, they say these artificial muscles are 100 times more powerful than the body's own.
They said they could even be used in "exoskeletons" to give superhuman strength to certain professions such as firefighters, soldiers and astronauts.
Two types of muscle are being investigated by US researchers at the Nanotech Institute at the University of Texas in Dallas, working with colleagues from South Korea.
Both release the chemical energy of fuels, such as hydrogen and alcohol, while consuming oxygen.
In effect they are replicating the first stage in "breathing" - by taking in oxygen. The existing form of artificial muscles are driven by batteries.
However, neither of the types developed by the Texan researchers resembles a normal muscle - being made up of wires, cantilevers and glass bottles.
'Mimicking nature'
The most powerful type, "shorted fuel cell muscles" convert chemical energy into heat, causing a special shape-memory metal alloy to contract.
Turning down the heat allows the muscle to relax.
Lab tests showed that these devices had a lifting strength more than 100 times that of normal skeletal muscle.
Another kind of muscle being developed by the team converted chemical energy into electrical energy which caused a material made from carbon nanotube electrodes to bend.
Dr John Madden, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, writing in Science, said "the approach could transform the way complex mechanical systems were built".
He said the artificial muscles mimicked nature in a number of ways.
"The muscle consumes oxygen and fuel that can be transported via a circulation system; the muscle itself supports the chemical reaction that leads to mechanical work; electrochemical circuits can act as nerves, controlling actuation; some energy is stored locally in the muscle itself; and, like natural muscle, the materials studied contract linearly."
But he said the challenge now was to create a circulation system like that of humans that replaces the wires in the artificial muscles.
Dr Madden said pressures needed to be generated so that waste gases could be produced, and the artificial muscles could truly be described as "breathing".
Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip
That's the interface portion of the system. For what? For the exoskeleton the StormTroopers of the future will wear to kick our rebel butts, of course! Sci-Fi you say? Guess again! Again, the RFID and Verichip (et al) is just to get people use to the idea and thereby get them ready to become Borg, if you will. Well, users of the "brainman" at best and Borg at worst.
Scientists make 'bionic' musclesScientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen.
And they could eventually be used to make more advanced prosthetic limbs, say researchers at University of Texas.
Writing in Science, they say these artificial muscles are 100 times more powerful than the body's own.
They said they could even be used in "exoskeletons" to give superhuman strength to certain professions such as firefighters, soldiers and astronauts.
Two types of muscle are being investigated by US researchers at the Nanotech Institute at the University of Texas in Dallas, working with colleagues from South Korea.
Both release the chemical energy of fuels, such as hydrogen and alcohol, while consuming oxygen.
In effect they are replicating the first stage in "breathing" - by taking in oxygen. The existing form of artificial muscles are driven by batteries.
However, neither of the types developed by the Texan researchers resembles a normal muscle - being made up of wires, cantilevers and glass bottles.
'Mimicking nature'
The most powerful type, "shorted fuel cell muscles" convert chemical energy into heat, causing a special shape-memory metal alloy to contract.
Turning down the heat allows the muscle to relax.
Lab tests showed that these devices had a lifting strength more than 100 times that of normal skeletal muscle.
Another kind of muscle being developed by the team converted chemical energy into electrical energy which caused a material made from carbon nanotube electrodes to bend.
Dr John Madden, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, writing in Science, said "the approach could transform the way complex mechanical systems were built".
He said the artificial muscles mimicked nature in a number of ways.
"The muscle consumes oxygen and fuel that can be transported via a circulation system; the muscle itself supports the chemical reaction that leads to mechanical work; electrochemical circuits can act as nerves, controlling actuation; some energy is stored locally in the muscle itself; and, like natural muscle, the materials studied contract linearly."
But he said the challenge now was to create a circulation system like that of humans that replaces the wires in the artificial muscles.
Dr Madden said pressures needed to be generated so that waste gases could be produced, and the artificial muscles could truly be described as "breathing".
S.Madewell - "If the truth shall kill a man ... let him die!"
Sheeple! Canadian sheeple, eh! PFFT!
http://www.i4u.com/article5355.html
Implanting Subdermal RFID in Practice
Canadian Piercing Studio Tribal Expression provided us with some insights on subdermal RFID placements in practice.
The studio offers RFID placements for people who want to have keyless entry into their home. Tribal Expression uses a glass ampoule that houses a 64-bit RFID chip. 64-bit gives 100 billion unique keys. Tribal Expressions Owner Keith Kennedy likes to compare this to the fact that average lock sets only have 300 unique keys, which would mean that in a city with 1 million, 3,333 people would have the key to your front door.
VeriChip was the first to come up with a subdermal RFID chip back in 2003. VeriChip expanded their subdermal RFID solutions quite a bit since then.
Tribal Expression places the RFID unit for instance under the skin on the wrist (see photo below).
The studio charges $275 CND (~$235) for the placement. The RFID reader sells for about $400 CND ($340). Besides home access the company works on car and computer access systems for their RFID chips.
Tribal Expression 'enhanced' three people so far with RFID chips. Visit their homepage for more details and contact information, if you want to be next.
http://www.i4u.com/article5355.html
Implanting Subdermal RFID in Practice
Canadian Piercing Studio Tribal Expression provided us with some insights on subdermal RFID placements in practice.
The studio offers RFID placements for people who want to have keyless entry into their home. Tribal Expression uses a glass ampoule that houses a 64-bit RFID chip. 64-bit gives 100 billion unique keys. Tribal Expressions Owner Keith Kennedy likes to compare this to the fact that average lock sets only have 300 unique keys, which would mean that in a city with 1 million, 3,333 people would have the key to your front door.
VeriChip was the first to come up with a subdermal RFID chip back in 2003. VeriChip expanded their subdermal RFID solutions quite a bit since then.
Tribal Expression places the RFID unit for instance under the skin on the wrist (see photo below).
The studio charges $275 CND (~$235) for the placement. The RFID reader sells for about $400 CND ($340). Besides home access the company works on car and computer access systems for their RFID chips.
Tribal Expression 'enhanced' three people so far with RFID chips. Visit their homepage for more details and contact information, if you want to be next.
S.Madewell - "If the truth shall kill a man ... let him die!"
RFID Cigarette Vending Machines
Kyodo News, 31 March 2006
The Tobacco Institute of Japan said Thursday it will start switching cigarette vending machines nationwide to new machines featuring an age-verification system from March 2008 to prevent minors from buying cigarettes. The institute announced that a total of 620,000 tobacco vending machines nationwide will be switched during 2008 to types that can read "tobacco cards" with integrated circuit chips bought by adult smokers.
Not surpised, we've seen the same age verification function on "Sake Pass" machines
http://www.wirelesswatch.jp/modules.php ... e&sid=1841
The Tobacco Institute of Japan said Thursday it will start switching cigarette vending machines nationwide to new machines featuring an age-verification system from March 2008 to prevent minors from buying cigarettes. The institute announced that a total of 620,000 tobacco vending machines nationwide will be switched during 2008 to types that can read "tobacco cards" with integrated circuit chips bought by adult smokers.
Not surpised, we've seen the same age verification function on "Sake Pass" machines
http://www.wirelesswatch.jp/modules.php ... e&sid=1841
RFID gets under your skin
RFID (radio frequency identification) tags seem to be quite the hot item these days, finding their way into poker chips and cell phones, among many other places, and now we see the technology in practice being implanted subdermally into three “customers” by Canadian Piercing Studio Tribal Expression.
These tags are designed for people to be able to unlock front doors, company cars, and computer equipment without messing around with passwords or physical keys. According to Tribal Expressions Owner Keith Kennedy, the RFID tags are 64-bit, allowing for 100 billion unique keys. In this way, it’s pretty hard for someone to just “guess” what frequency would be able to give them access to your home.
By contrast, standard lock sets that you can get from your local hardware store or when a locksmith comes to replace the sets on your doors, they only have 300 unique keys.
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C7167/
These tags are designed for people to be able to unlock front doors, company cars, and computer equipment without messing around with passwords or physical keys. According to Tribal Expressions Owner Keith Kennedy, the RFID tags are 64-bit, allowing for 100 billion unique keys. In this way, it’s pretty hard for someone to just “guess” what frequency would be able to give them access to your home.
By contrast, standard lock sets that you can get from your local hardware store or when a locksmith comes to replace the sets on your doors, they only have 300 unique keys.
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C7167/