[lit-ideas] FW: Re: Calling all computer gurus & lawyers (Andreas?)

It's actually RFID's.  I searched RDIF and it came up RFID.  It's an 
established technology and is for sale by IBM among others.  Wikipedia has a 
discussion of it.   I have company tomorrow, so I'm busy today.  I'm always 
busier on days when I'm not working.  I'd rather work sometimes.  I'm dragging 
my feet, gotta get started.  Bye.



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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Calling all computer gurus & lawyers (Andreas?)


I read something about RDIF's (can't remember what that stands for and I think 
those are the initials).  They're laser readers sort of like bar codes only 
much more, what's the word, intense.  They can be put in everything from 
passports to store shelves (not products, but shelves) to monitor what people 
pick up and what they don't and to automatically track what shelves were going 
bare and so on.  In fact, Walmart has actually used them.  When there was an 
outcry that people were being spied on, they said they had notified people that 
testing was in progress.  The problem with putting them into passports is that 
terrorists can pick out the Americans with a simple handheld reader because 
they're not yet encrypted.  It's cradle to grave tracking, not yet widespread 
but the technology is there, the way zebra readers were in the 70's.  I can't 
remember where I read it.  


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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/12/29/spy.agency.privacy.ap/index.html    

Is this total hype?

I'm familiar with cookies, as I thought everyone was.

Tell me this Orwellian scenario is unfounded.

Julie Krueger
thinking phrases like "police state"

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