[extropy-chat] rfid

[Mike Lorrey]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> Walmart has gotten the price of RFID tags to below
> 9 cents each now.  Which leads to:
> 
> Lampsons Law:  Almost anything that is mass produced can 
> be made for a cost approximating the price of the raw 
> materials in a market of 1 billion consumers.  
> 
> Never before has this been possible on this green planet, 
> but we just happened along at the precise moment it became 
> a reality.  Think on these odds.

Doesn't food fit Lampsons Law as well?

Anyways, the market for RFIDs is significantly larger than 1 billion.
The number space on the chips is designed to transmit, I believe, a 95
digit serial number, which approximates the number of grains of sand on
the planet. Mighty ambitious market planning. Ultimately the plan is
for every manufactured item on the planet to have an embedded RFID: you
will be identifiable by every piece of clothing, underwear, shoes,
prosthetic, etc from a distance of at least 17 feet. People with access
to the right databases will know where, when, and how much you paid for
every one of those items, your previous credit record, your current
bank balance, among just about anything else. 

Robots will be able to remotely determine, by your migration through
clothing sizes, when you have gained too much weight to be safe or
economical for the public health system and will then arrest you and
institutionalize you for your own health and that of the public (this
just happened for the first time last week in England).

Solutions: 
1) do not buy things for yourself, ever, buy things for others. This
may be planned to force the human race into a gift economy to evolve
society wide psychologies necessary for global socialism. In order to
resist this, one must plan to operate in a barter mode.
2) learn to spot locations of RFID tags and remove them from products.
RFID makers are already wise to this and are figuring out how to embed
the tags inside materials: injected into the rubber of the soles of
your shoes, laminated inside the cardboard of packages, inside the
handles of razors and toothbrushes, inside the plastic of bottles.
Experimentation is underway to make a dissolvable RFID tag so that one
can be embedded in every bar of soap, leaving nothing behind.
3) construction of home HERF cookers from microwave oven parts will be
needed so unremovable tags can have their chips burned out.
4) production of wallets and jackets from steel cloth, to act as
faraday cage material, shielding worn RFIDs from arbitrary scanning
(esp wrt ids and credit cards)

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


	
		
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