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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Don, the following article briefly tells about the combo I mentioned.  I read 
a more expansive article that said it's already being used somewhere south 
(brazil ?), and certain services (like taxi-cabs) were no longer accepting 
cash or regular credit cards, only rfid enabled credit cards (usually built 
into cell phone chips).  I don't unterstand a lot of this new technology, but 
the other article maintained that it could track you anwaywhere you walked by 
an rfid screener (passive, like you said), just like cell phones can be 
traced today from their pings.........bobford



----- Original Message ----
From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2008 3:29:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fannie/Freddie bailout question

> p.s.  Have you been reading about the new rfid chips, gps enabled, built
> right into cell-phone.  You don't even need a wallet.  And, in England ,
> they are starting to chip some of their criminals......I don't
> know.......

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is passive.  It is a device (usually a
single integrated circuit or chip) that responds only when activated by a
scanning device nearby.  It id being used in all sorts of tracking.
Versions are planed for your money and credit/debit cards.  With all the
products in Wally World chiped then all you have to do is walk a cart by a
scanner and the total will automatically be deducted from your account.
Sounds nice but it is not.

Cell phones are GPS enabled.  GPS uses an active device, signals from
satellites are processed, PN time signals decoded, time delays checked, and
out come your position.  The cell phone then sends it to the network.  

Those that have little concern for you other than your pocket book see all
sorts of applications for both.

Don Bowen  KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html

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