Keys cloned from long-range photographs

Here’s a neat but nasty little criminal hack that some smart folks at UC San Diego just released as a proof-of-concept: ... maybe tagging yourself with an RFID chip to open your door has merits after all. picture by Bohman Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Tags: crime • duplication • hack • [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 04:00:24

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Pennsylvania Lawmaker Joins Movement To Ban Forced RFID Implants

State Rep. Babette Josephs, D-Phila., has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to implant any identification device on or under a ... RFID chart sourced from CNETJust Get There | The thought of any government or corporation forcing humans to take implantable RFID chips, sounds like an Orwellian sci-fi movie. In reality, it is in [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 15:51:46

Leave Your Thoughts at Home (Land Security)

This is right off the Sci-Fi channel. Homeland Security is working on a scan that reads your mind ... just long enough to determine whether any suspect materials - such as types of metal, rubber, plastic ... who refuse will most likely have to submit to a physical pat-down. As far as the RFID Chips [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 18:25:20

Links for 8th August 2008

Stross on the difference between US and UK sf; emergent AI in canine form; ePassports hacked like a cheap padlock; ... his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 RFID chips ... Can and Will Be Hacked. Tagged with: UK • passport • cloning • identity • theft • RFID • hack • cryptography • biometric [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 00:00:22

Apple has patented "smart garments"

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Portables, RumorsWould you believe an article of clothing that knows what you're doing? Apple has filed a patent for something called "smart garments." We can only assume this refers ... with an RFID chip -- which is necessary for the transmitter/iPod paring -- could be embedded [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 00:00:33

INDIA has to find it's four STEVE JOBS : Guy Kawasaki

Times Of India had a very interesting interview with Guy Kawasaki when he was on a visit in Mumbai ... him wondering about the ‘business analytics’ involved. “How can you send a pair of jeans there and get the same one back,” he wondered.“And that too without RFID chips, no barcode scanner,” he said [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 17:52:00

Privacy and public safety

... with an RFID chip in it might have an identity that’s far more extensive than the Digital Native who is further ... people using this system. However, by putting information together via Google, people can be found [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:23:48

Carphone sees x10 interest in iPhone pre-registrations

If you’ve been reading Ben’s tale of woe trying to register to get a 3G iPhone from o2, earlier, then this piece of news is, as Kylie used to sing, especially for you.  Carphone Warehouse, the nation’s behemoth mobile phone retailer, is ready ... .  In fact, I’m going to see if we can place our very own contributor (and he with the RFID chip [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 09:48:11

Tokyo Designer's Week

Every year, Tokyo Designer's Week turns the city into a dream world for creative types ... suggests a camera in the shape of a ring and a watch that allows you to take pictures by making ... dream shop." Participants were given pieces of flat plastic embedded with RFID tracking chips [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 15:26:33

Resume Fraud Rampant in India

It appears that we in the US have exported yet another hot commodity to those in India: Resume Fraud ... are now starting to embed RFID chips in their diplomas to prevent fraud.” Read more How does ... and power) could do for their lives.  Second, there are more people competing for fewer jobs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 15:02:08

Enjoy surveillance while it is still visible

From Heise-Online Measures such as ID cards are a temporary measure before biometric technology becomes ubiquitous; ... Identification (RFID) chip in your wallet, you won’t even know its being checked.” Biometric ... you queue for check-in or move through the terminal. “When you walk into the airport [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 12:29:37

What you need to know about protecting your personal information, and how the new enhanced drivers licence can put you at risk

In an age where we are constantly having to adjust to new technologies that are often touted as “time saving” and “convenient”, ... up for the right to try it out.  A reader emailed a link to a recent story detailing the risks ... of having a passport. The licences contain an RFID chip- radio frequency identification technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:57

Jive: Social Networking for Seniors

Concerned that your grandparents won’t make it to your party because they didn’t get your facebook invitation? Fear not, sort-of. Introducing Jive. Designed by Ben Arent for his senior design project, Jive is a platform that aims to bring ... . To add one another as “friends,” users exchange friend-pass cards, which contains an RFID chip [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 16:48:06

not ready for spime-time pedagogy

I'm teaching Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things right now and thus thinking of his neologism, the spime ... with linking those two. In addition, the spime also tracks its own singular history. That is, this particular ... became a smart object. Rafael Macedo de la Concha had an RFID chip implanted in his arm that can track [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 12:41:42

RFID, Privacy and the Surveillance Society

If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed ... and civil liberties: * Hidden placement of tags. RFID tags can be embedded into/onto objects [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 13:40:25

Oyster on mobiles

Building Oyster technology into mobile phones seems like a good idea. Just about everyone is permanently wedded to their phone ... their wallet or purse and an Oyster card - the size of a normal credit card - is hardly an onerous burden ... , but not negligible. I’m not an expert, but shielding the RFID chip from the signals put out by mobiles [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 18:49:46

SDRNews SDR2008-11-25 Network of Everything

BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Layoffs at Google ? ... and while other nodes on the network link to RFID chips in prescription drug pillbottles in the medicine ... of sensors surrounding an individual in daily roles as father, husband, home owner, patient, employee [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 04:43:34

Crazy Rhode Island School RFID’ing Students

In a move that shows a blatant disregard for civil liberties and personal freedoms, a Rhode Island school district will be testing out a program that monitor’s student movement via RFID chips in backpacks. Right now, 80 children are using the RFID-equipped backpacks. Buses [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 15:07:40

Amish Law and Order

In the criminal justice system, the people are entertained by two separate yet equally important groups: the Amish, who presume their own guilt, ... farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle "are a mark of the beast." The Amish farmers claim Michigan regulations requiring them to use radio frequency identification devices [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 03:59:00

Japan '08: Washinomiya Shrine

On our first full day in Japan, we decided to visit Washinomiya Jinja, a Shinto shrine in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, ... at a vending machine. You don't even have to take the card out; it has an RFID chip that generally works if you nonchalantly wave your wallet over the reader. Probably the most important single piece [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:07:00

Real Snail mail

A couple of "boredom researchers" at Bournemouth University in the UK think we should take time out of the instant-access digital world ... with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip that picks up a bunch of emails when the snail passes close to an electronic reader. When, or if, the snail makes it to another reader [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 15:57:38

Would You Like to Carry Your Medical Records…under your skin?

What are you visioning for your health? Medical records embedded in your arm. Is this the future of health? Read on. ... and their families safe,” says Sean Nolan, the chief architect for HealthVault, quoted in RFID Journal. If you’ ... . Microsoft wants to get under your skin HealthVault links up with VeriMed RFID chips Bill Ray [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 20:40:18

SureFlap Robotic Cat Door

Having a cat door in your home is fine and dandy, but what happens when Fluffy isn’t the only feline walking through? ... be implanted with the relevant RFID chip first before it is able to be recognized and given access. Perfect ... gadgets tech toys car high tech products up to the minute gadget and gizmo news computer games gizmo sip [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 23:29:56

Smart contact lens feels the pressure of glaucoma

University of California, Davis researchers have made a contact lens with a built-in pressure sensor that could help monitor conditions such as glaucoma and ocular hypertension. Prototype lenses with pressure sensors (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH ... continuously, sending data out using a small RFID chip. (Source: http://technology.newscientist.com [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 02:45:23

good day sunshine

Its 7:30am and I'm sitting in the parking lot of LGA waiting for my dad to get in so I can drive him home ... me to heaven post apocolypse. (i spent last night in bed watching videos about martial law, 2012, rfid chips ... crashing, alien invasions, putin the anti christ, the second coming christ, bible codes to predict [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 12:25:28

VeriChip Closes Sale of Subsidiary - RFID

It appears having a “chip” implant is perhaps not as popular as one might have thought as least on the consumer medical records side.  Stanley, the tools folks, have purchased one portion of the business , Xmark which makes RFID ...   Xmark sells radio frequency identification technology to tag and track newborns, adults prone [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 21:56:53

Plexidoor Electronic Dog Door

Instead of carving out a flap on your front door for your pooch to enter/exit as it pleases, ... you up in the middle of the night. This is made possible thanks to a waterproof RFID chip located ... and model, the Plexidor Electronic Dog Door will retail from $129 to $800. Source article | Add a comment [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 16:46:17

Random observations from Devoxx 2008

Devoxx is an annual European Java conference with a total of 3200 attendees from 35 countries and again has been completely sold out ... . Random ramblings will follow. Monitoring tools The conference passes have embedded RFID chip ... . Which application server is the most popular? Which app server is evil? Besides Websphere [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 08:42:35

Charge cards give way to RFID phones

NFC (RFID) fone Photo: Courtesy of MasterCard From my Boston Globe column this week, MasterCard says any bank can now issue computer codes, rather than cards, to consumers.–mb I usually tap my RFID-chipped Citizens Bank card against the checkout reader to streamline the transaction. Once I’ve fished the card out of my wallet [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 15:44:07

Developing: "Maariv Newspaper announces Israel will be first to implement mandatory RFID chips in citizens hands"

I need to confirm this blog article posted on Watchman Magazine Blog ... government is passing (or has passed) a law where all citizens will be required to have RFID chips [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 03:36:09

Hazard Factory’s Jelly Bean Gun

The Jelly Bean Gun is not a whole lot different to any of the endless variety of launchers out there, ... like a potentially dangerous project, so if you don’t know what you are doing it is probably best to admire ... You (1) Videos: Fixing the X360 Three Rings of Death (0) Video: How to Remove an RFID Chip From a Card (0) [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 15:07:34

Discovery Channel Pushing NWO Human RFID Chip Implant

Related conspiracies: civil rights, fascism, global surveillance, human databasing, human microchip, Intelligent Technology, population control, RFID Related posts Suspect Nation - High Tech Surveillance Conspiracy Tracking The Troops ... of Suppressed History Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 00:54:01

Mir:ror reader harnesses RFID tech to create interactive object reality

mirror204.jpg Now that biometric and RFID chips are set to be embedded in all of our Orwellian state ID cards, you might as well put the technology to good personal use with the Mir:ror device and Ztamps from France-based Violet. Simply attach the preprogrammed RFID enabled Ztamps to any number of objects [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 03:41:42

The Plexidor Electronic Pet Door

With today’s technology there are a lot of ways to make sure your pet is well taken care of and safe ... as a garage door would, only instead of hitting a button this has an RFID chip that clips to your pet’ ... in the closing door.  The doors range in prices from $129 on up to $800 and come in both white [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 15:00:34

USC School of Cinematic Arts, "Imagine the World in 2050"

In April, 2008 five IBM scientists including myself appeared at the USC Film School on a panel discussing what the world would look like in 2050 ... the reanimated 1918 Spanish Influenza virus. Some estimates place the death toll of such an event at 160 ... services on your phone and you will love RFID chips in your sunglasses so you can find them [more...]

Date: 2008-06-08 16:08:36

The Scannerati

The Scannerati September 23rd, 2008 Thanks to RFID chips embedded in trade-show nametags, Kimberly Foley knows who visited her 31, ... s now planning to add another 50 scanners at her booth. She’s also thinking about "adding plasma screens that are networked to the scanners and offer content tailored to specific interests." Other [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 05:02:28

Back

We arrived at JFK a little less than an hour ago. Seven hour flight from London Hethrow Airport this morning to JFK ... . Around 4 hours from now we get to board a flight to Ohio, and then a flight after that to Vegas ... to use. It has a RFID chip in it and you just scan as you go in and out and it dings your balance [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 16:47:49

Timeouts for Clinical Applications

I've recently been asked to describe our approach to security timeouts for clinical applications ... physical detection such as face recognition or signals from an RFID chip on (or in) the user. However ... try to infer user presence from available data.The ED Dashboard is a web based application [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 11:00:00

HIV/AIDS Patients to Be Tagged with RFID Chips [Wrong Use Of Technology]

In the ultimate Nazi-inspired exercise of destruction of the most basic human rights, ... who had infected a healthy person. For some reason, this joke of a human being thinks that using RFID ... of the problem which, according to the usual international health watchers, is the poor education [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 00:51:16

A New Year, An Old Story

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review, ... s analysis of the NXP Mifare Classic, an RFID chip used in fare cards for the public-transit systems” ... Published by MIT included this article - RFID’s Security Problem: Are U.S. passport cards and new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:09:37

Virtual currencies stifled by regulation?

(via panGloss, The Register and Out-Law) Roll back the time to 1999 ... with a combination of smart cards, RFID chips and mobile phones. The European Commission, in a characteristic ... that the current directive lacks legal certainty. First of all the definition of electronic money [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 09:01:54

RFID Verichip may contain lethal virus.

Aaron Russo reveals the truth about the RFID chip and the Elites agenda for the American people ... . Are we the next guinea pigs? Learn more at : http://www.conspiracycards.com/ Author: Bendover Keywords: RFID radio-frequency identification Aaron Russo CBS news human implants Verichip corporation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 16:42:51

News 2008.07.10

Cambridge Consultants XAP5 Core Sets New Standard for 16-Bit Processors Cambridge Consultants has launched its next generation XAP processor core - ... with a 24-bit address space for large programs up to 16 Mbytes. Intel Sells UHF RFID Reader Chip Operation ... Business Initiatives (NBI) incubator and which developed the award-winning R1000 RFID reader [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 17:13:44

Who is OBSTRUCTING THE US SEN JUDICIARY COMMITTEE'S communications to a witness named THOMAS S. BEAN.

As of today...no email has been recieved from Senator Leahy or THE US SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. This can mean : 1) ... . Anybody WONDER WHY CIA, DIA, DOD, NSA, FBI, DOJ, GOP have not targeted the fucking kikes ... my x rays showing the FBI RFID MIND CONTROL CHIP ILLEGALLY INSERTED IN MY SKULL WHILE I SLEPT IN MY OWN HOME [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 19:16:23

What You Need to Know About SmartBikes

OK, so there’s more to the SmartBikes than the fact that Mayor Adrian M. Fenty knows how to ride one ... in their neighborhood in the morning to ride to work, how will there be enough parking spaces downtown ... racks; a computer in the van can track the status of each rack thanks to an RFID chip [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 19:04:57

Old Fastrak transponder design

While riding my bike, I saw the this board in the street.  It looked like a Fastrak transponder so I picked it up. There are a couple interesting notes.  The board is labeled “TIRIS” (Texas Instruments RFID ... chip instead of the TI MSP430 now in use.  They probably moved to the MSP430 to save money [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 16:36:00

DIY Video Poker Table

Know When to Hold 'Em: courtesy Jason Kiely Every Friday night, about 10 regulars gather at my place in Perth, Australia, to play Texas Hold 'Em. I'm the co-founder of a technology-services company, L7 Solutions. I'm also a chronic tinkerer ... combines the video files with RFID data from the tagged chips and cards to create a simulcast [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:49:00

Plexidor Electronic Dog Door

When you own a pet dog one of the first things you need to get done is fix up a doggie door ... to enter or exit the premises. The only difference is that your dog wears a waterproof RFID chip ... is available in bronze and white. Prices range from $129 to $800, depending on the size and model [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 12:02:32

Farmers Fight RFID Mark of the Beast In Their Livestock

Why should an animal be legally required to wear an electronic identifier, anyway? ... of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are a “mark of the beast.” Michigan and federal authorities say the radio frequency identification devices (RFID) will help monitor the travels of bovine [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 01:11:55

More ways for you Identity to be Stolen

From NewsMax… The devices, called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass cards, and driver’s licenses that contain special chips with personal information. The RFIDs are so sensitive that, even before [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 16:52:04

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