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  • From: Diana Duncan <art2mis AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Surveillance, USA
  • Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:39:19 -0400

If you disable it, won't that make you immediately suspect? Not right away, of course, but after the new tires have been out for five years or so, the government might expect that all cars would have at least one new tire on them. At that point disabling the technology might just make you more of a target.

Diana

On Tuesday, Apr 8, 2003, at 15:11 US/Eastern, Thomas Beckett wrote:

Well I was going to deal with RFIDs in my clothes by putting
all new clothing purchases in the microwave for a minute or
two. Can't fit a f*cking tire in the radar range.

What could you do to disable such RFIDs?

TaB


yesterday Dave Matusiak and I were discussing a project I'm
developing which concerns surveillance in the modern era.
Afterwards I went to the news stand and saw MIT's Technology Review
on the shelf; it's cover story was about, of all things,
surveillance technology. The article contained this interesting
tidbit:

"And as part of a new, federally mandated tracking system, the three
major U.S. automobile manufacturers plan to put special radio
transponders known as radio frequency identification tags in every
tire sold in the nation. Far exceeding congressional requirements,
according to a leader of the Automotive Industry Action Group, an
industry think tank, the tags can be read on vehicles going as fast
as 160 kilometers per hour from a distance of 4.5 meters."

The whole article may be viewed at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/farmer0403.asp
but you will need to create a free login first.

--Alan
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