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  • From: "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: High-tech homing devices worry privacy advocates
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:25:50 -0500 (EST)


Hey, why use high-tech homing devices when (relatively) low-tech ones will
do ... like radiation??

from Reuters: Report: E.Germany Used Nuclear Tags on Dissidents
"In a ploy worthy of a James Bond villain, East German dissidents were
"tagged" with radioactive chemicals that allowed secret agents to track
them with hidden Geiger counters, New Scientist magazine said on
Wednesday."

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=science&Repository=SCIENCE_REP&RepositoryStoryID=%2Fnews%2FIDS%2FScience%2FSCIENCE-STASI-DC_TXT.XML


Cheers
Kelly Jo

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