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- gwolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Mark of the beast
- GraceMolloy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5besides the fact that RFID tags can be easily copied with the right tools?
Wouldn't this make for an Identity Theft nightmare? - allatti2d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Hmmm... this was also submitted in the Tech/Security topic. Deja vu...
They've already started using microchips in passports.
There's something really creepy to me about microchip identification. I won't even get my pets microchipped. I'm really into science and technology, and think most of it is amazing and fantastic, but there's something about microchipping IDs that's a slippery slope of some kind, rubs me the wrong way. Maybe because it's so Orwellian, so Revelationsian, so BushPatriotActian.
Creepy. - Etaoin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wait, what? Stop driving in protest? Or just hope you don't get pulled over and found without a valid license? Either way, I promise, you're not making any kind of statement that anyone cares about.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The best part of these contracts is that they are guaranteed to fail, so you don't have bother actually performing on them.
- btsiders, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2After reading through the entire article and studying the picture of the example identity card, I'm confused as to why people think this card is using RFID. It sure looks like a Contact Smart Card chip and not RFID, and they never mention RFID in the article.
Contact Smart Card chips do not transmit through the air like RFID. They are already very widespread on credit cards and security access cards for private and public organizations. The story here is that the U.S. government is finally standardizing their employee and contractor ID cards to use this proven technology, which means the price of using the technology will go down for everyone else. This is a Good Thing. I've been wanting to use Smart Card IDs for my small business for a long time now, but the cost has kept me from making the jump.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartcard
They aren't saying they are going to embed chips under everyone's skin or that they are going to tag our garbage bins with RFID, they are just issuing better ID cards for people who need access to government facilities. Having biometric identification stored on the cards is a great way to make sure the person using the card is the right person.
That all being said, storing personal information on the card other than identity (like time entry) is just silly. There is no reason an employee's logged hours need to be known by every security guard in every government building they enter. It would make more sense to me to store that type of information in, oh, a time entry system. - scbysnx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah digg down the accurate post and up the sensationalist post
- ASHole71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We already have an ID theft nightmare going on
- scbysnx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1nah the mark of the beast is on the body
- lpferris, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Bad idea...ouch. But stay complacent, Americans, you're doing a great job of giving up your freedom.
- mhearne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They can do what they want, but I'm not paying for it. If my drivers license fees go up to $100 or something, then I'll just stop renewing it.
- themulf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is a goal for many governments around the world.
- spurtle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Godwin bar codes.
- thegoldstandard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is terrible.
- phbradley, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2time to invest
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2oh knoes the RFID chips! Next it'll be like V for Vendetta© N' the governemtn owns us all!
Where's that sap John Conner when we need him?
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