rfidlowdown.com — Love it or hate it, there’s no turning back the clock on RFID folks, this is one technology that’s here to stay. It’s been kicking up a storm of privacy issues, and the FDA approval for VeriChip to implant human beings in the name of medical advances hasn’t done anything to settle the dust.
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jamthedudeDec 8, 2006
Unfortunately, most people, like you, don't give a damn about their privacy. There is still a problem with micro-chipping the population, even if "people are scum" as you put it. You are no better than anyone else on this planet and nobody deserves to be monitored like a lab rat 24/7 and that's exactly what corporations and government want - to make you the only thing better than a consumer, a monitored consumer.
armbarDec 8, 2006
You're right, if most people had honesty and integrity, we wouldn't have a problem.However, the government is made up of people, and some of those people are, well, lacking in honesty and integrity. It's not necessarily that the problem is on my end, though I do admit that I'm not the best person to ever live.
revisrevDec 8, 2006
Yes, line me up. I'll take the image of his excellency, our risen lord and potentate on my forehead.
csenseDec 8, 2006
@armbarSorry to dash your hopes. Do you have an issue with Mr. Paine? :)What system are you referring to? The representative democratic political system we have or the (semi) free market economic system?I agree that the idea of having RFIDs implanted in everything and everyone is scary. I do not want anyone tracking my behavior, whether it is buying habits, travel patterns, or whatever. However I see the threat coming misuse of this information by individuals, people, agencies, or corporations, and not from the system. The system is too large, bureaucratic, and inefficient to accomplish what I think you are implying.But you are correct, it is compalcency that is the biggest threat to our freedoms
revisrevDec 8, 2006
and a little bit at a time we become less free and more secure until one day we've whittled away the freedoms that make our lives rich and unique.For me it is unacceptable to give up freedom for security and safety. The only life worth living is a free one. Anything less is a crime against yourself and the Constitution, in which each American citizen is charged with the responsibility of keeping its government in line, and if the government will not stay in line it is to be abolished and reformed. Maybe it's time to move. Are there any countries left that are actually free. Any libertarian societies out there? Any land left in which we can start one? Damn... guess I'll just have to wait until they start running flights to the moon.
vholdDec 8, 2006
For me it falls flat on it's face because governments are known to do things like this:<a class="user" href="http://www.csus.edu/cshpe/eugenics/">http://www.csus.edu/cshpe/eugenics/</a>"California was home to an extensive eugenics movement in the twentieth century. Convinced that ideas of better breeding and genetic selection were central to settling the Pacific West, many European American migrants to California supported practices such as involuntary sterilization, immigration restriction, and racially-biased IQ testing. Indeed, 1/3 or 20,000 of the 60,000 sterilizations performed in the United States from 1900 to 1980 occurred in California under the aegis of the state government."Your first line of defense against something like this is for the government to not have information about you in the first place. This is exactly the kind of whack job thing that can happen when somebody in power uses information that was gathered under the guise of some much more benign purpose.
mitrovarrDec 8, 2006
Some of these are just retarded:"2. Electronic car security:" - RFID in keys is cool, but implanted RFID is not. All it will take is one carjacking to make you appreciate the ability to give up your keys."10. Digital Family Portrait:" - RFID will in no way whatsoever help with this application, which when you think about it, is creepy as hell (I don't want a damn electronic spy telling my grandparents when I'm sick!)"14. SurgiChip:" - Like this purpose couldn't be better solved with indelible black markers - "Operate on THIS leg." Or just not overworking surgeons so much they stop paying attention."17. Quarantining in hospitals:" - Seriously, guys, it's called a 'door lock'. Locking the quarantine patient in isn't good enough, you also have to lock out anyone who doesn't belong in there. Just use an electronic card lock and give cards to the people who are allowed in."32. Gate devices:" - Some electronic nanny that tells me when I don't have my wallet? Brilliant. Maybe I'm just going out to get the mail."34. Application of cosmetics:" - Seriously, now we're just getting ridiculous."38. Memory jogger:" - RFID helps in no way whatsoever with this application."40. Personalized shopping: " - Because you just don't have the wit to recognize your favorite stuff without massive computer intervention."43. Travel applications: " - This is great for people who want those massive security problems that are inevitable with RFID credit cards, or are too lazy to type in their credit card numbers."48. Tagging spouses:" - Guaranteed to cause more marriage problems than even the most torrid affair.
ya2sinMay 13, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/security/Say_NO_to_Verichip/">http://digg.com/security/Say_NO_to_Verichip/</a>Make your voice heard, say NO to Verichip!