In a report of SearchSecurity.com, one Chip Maker reportedly pressured away from debate and exhibition a demonstration of how the Flea – the microscopic RFID Chip you don’t want on you – can be cloned.
In the security business, cloning any identification whatsoever breaches security. It punches a hole in the boat so the very idea of that security theory can sink like a rock. It’s my surmise that many of the predictions of the hazards of RFID technology are coming true.
One of the worst of those forecasts is how the industry responds to criticism. More appropriately, how it responds to refusal.
Since the beginning, I’ve posted forecasts of the industry’s attitude on intrusion, destruction of privacy in mistake, abuse and retaliation, and the campaign to ram the Flea down our throats. Now it’s happening when some wonk wants to prove the defects in the very concept. It can be done, reportedly with only $20 worth of materials.
This is part of the information the citizen needs to make their best informed decision, and it’s being silenced. If you thought the Flea was harmless to you because you have nothing to hide, your blind spot is in your (our) freedom of speech being skunked – you know, the kind you depend on to make your best informed decisions. For many millions following the issue with an open mind, most might not hear about the way to clone your chip for the cost of a year of Sports Illustrated.
The RFID Industry is responding predictably: discouraging and pressuring the exhibitor to drop the exhibit - censorship - and then promising layer upon layer of hi-tech security on the Flea.
What the industry refuses to acknowledge in the whole argument is our right to refuse the Flea, outright refuse it.
In a free country, we don’t have to prove anything, furnish data or even have a reason: we’re sovereign, and no should be enough.
People want to make money on this, I understand, but not at the expense of our sovereign right to opt-out.
It’s time to say that assurances are irrational – no matter what the industry does to perfect the Flea in addressing our concerns, they will have positively no way of guaranteeing it nor will they ever make good on damages arising from the very existence of the thing in your body. Any chip implanted on a person will contain some important data for it’s very existence and mission, and as such, will be desirable to thieves. If they can penetrate the veneer – and all locks can be picked – then all the promises will be irrational and all the solutions ineffective. Many individuals will suffer nightmares of identity theft, mistake, and worse – and the industry will consider you collateral damage.
It is not a case of someone who wants to get in bad enough will get in – it is that the Flea can be a whole new repository of data within the reach of thieves more than ever before. It’s not the lock, it’s the electronic duplication storage of vital data which before, it was resident somewhere else for the most part beyond the reach of most thieves. Important Data as you have in your home residing in your computer may be somewhat at risk, but now – with important data on a mobile RFID Chip on your credit card or in your body put there through enough social pressure - a thief can read your chip at a distance and through solid objects.ÂÂÂ
Or did they forget to mention that?
Why don’t the proponents take their own chip? You should ask them.
I recommend you log-in to your favorite search engine and plug in search term RFID to receive e-mail alerts on this topic as they happen.
The Flea may be driven by profit motive, but we’re actually likely to pay for it in our privacy and sovereign authority. I don’t care what the benefits are – it’s too expensive.
The looting of the nation is a funny thing: we don’t pay for looting with money, we pay for it in sovereignty. They already have money.
There is only one way for the RFID Industry to address our concerns the way it should be in a free country: drop the idea.
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Hi-tech surveillance plays an important role in the looting of the nation where we pay in the only currency they will accept: sovereignty and liberty. See www.TransferOfWealth.net
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