Good For The Country
by John Longenecker.
RFID: The Flea And Human Implantation, 2006.
RFID Chips are tiny electronic circuits activated and powered by an electronic pulse from an external source. These chips are miniature records of personal data, and can be hidden anywhere. They can be written, read and rewritten like the magnetic stripe on the back of your credit card, driver’s license or grocery membership card. Any card.
There is no law against them at this time, there's no regulation, but there are dozens and dozens of applications, ranging from product monitoring to tracking of personal behavior in buying habits and travel and even personal consumption of products on real-time.
Homes of the future would use RFID chips throughout in anticipating your arrival home to actuate specific things you like waiting for you, to monitor the remaining milk in your fridge and even sense whether you’re taking your pills on time.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
They can also monitor personal... shall we say tastes by knowing what you've bought and brought home. And personal habits around the home, such as how much milkfat you consume, how much animal fat you consume and even the type of magazines (tastes) you buy.
This means not only reading who and what you are, but perhaps even speaking to you about who and what you ought to be. As if it's not already happening now. As I write often, privacy is a safeguard against mistake, abuse and retaliation.
Not only can the chip be read by marketers, by law enforcement and by criminals, but on a universal (worldwide) database, the content of amounts and character of what you buy can be read by insurance companies, sales weasels, and even columnists when you travel. Private Investigators can conduct asset searches and peek at your files today: will they, too, be able to peek in your home as sales weasels and others can?
Whatever you buy will be detected and possibly misunderstood once you get it home. Oops, I mean once you buy it. The Flea is on you. If you buy that dirty magazine and then throw it away, it’ll be known.
The RFID Industry is making a big push for their chips and sales can total in the billions of dollars in no time. Among the advocates are officials and, of course, shareholders.
It’s easy to find stories touting the benefits, including RFID Chips in automobile tires, clothing, toothpaste, medicines, patient identification, magazines, lighter fluid, auto parts tracking in shipping..it goes on.
And then there’s human implantation.
The applications seem sound, yes, but where such tracking is already too high a price, this is where the price is over the top.
Worldwide database sharing makes sales weasel monitor now Stalking.
RFID is one of those examples of a blend of well-intentioned and the ill-willed coming together for unrelated but long-sought gains. [The RFID Chip should be celebrating its thirty-fifth anniversary right about now. Patented in 1973, the Flea has been wanting to jump on people for three decades now, from the imagination of science fiction and automaton compliance of citizens to 2006 and beyond, there has never been a mistake in the goals of the little thing.]
I have said that privacy is a corner of our personal sovereignty, and our sovereignty and liberty are what America is all about. Much of the rest, well-intentioned or not, benefits or no, is intentional interference to remove that sovereignty for commercial gain, law enforcement gain and other gains.
Privacy and our sovereignty are carefully selected safeguards against mistake, abuse and retaliation. We reserve the right to say No.
..don’t we...?
But the pressure continues as industry reps lobby Congress to make no law and at present, there are no laws regarding RFID intrusions.
The Industry has published pieces about how RFID will not succeed without the approval of the People, but their idea of approval is to carry surreptitiously placed fleas in someday everything around the world (their forecast).
And don’t forget that any published article on the subject – such as implantation of chips in your tires or new car ignition key - is considered Public Notice. And your use of it thereafter is considered "acceptance" or consent via constructive notice.
Yet how do we opt-out of ignition keys and tires, say, if we merely wanted to exercise (test the current validity of) our right to refuse?
It’s an underhanded game of eventual defeat for sovereignty if we don’t object now and get definition on the books.
But what if Congress doesn’t act, and soon to protect the sovereignty that is our way of life and theirs?
They go first.
I’m willing to bet that Congress Critters - as usual - don’t imagine themselves living our way of life, the American way of life, that is.
I don’t think they like the idea that a home made parabolic reflector and a yagi antenna can extend the readability range of nearly any chip by many times. A range of thirty feet could become more than a hundred feet, and so forth. It may sound ludicrous that a criminal or a ring of criminals could place themselves above traffic with a conspicuous antenna to read passer-by, but it was done rather easily with bulky RF readers in pirating cell phones passing by.
The solution to the RFID debate is to forbid specific applications and to have provisions for a rather stiff penalty, mistake or no, with immense corporate liability. Like wiretapping is illegal. Wait a minute..
If they believe in the damned thing, let them back it up.
I’m all for banning them entirely because of abuse on both the industry clientele and the criminal. Where the customer has to pick up the cost of the Flea in more lost privacy, more inconvenience, more adaptations of our way of life, it amounts to nothing more than another looting of America: opportunistic feeding on our changing society with little return in benefits, really. Coinvenience for business, but little convenience – some – for consumers.
All things have a price. If that price is acceptable to individuals championing the Flea, let them prove it to us who are opposed. I’m open to hearing from the advocates and officials who endorse the Flea, a report from the field, so to speak; time to move out of the theoretical testing into field testing with real-life experience. Theirs.
Officials take implantation and wear it for five years with a nationwide moratorium on all other human implantation. Officials carry data on their personal identity, medical records and voting record, all of which are updated weekly. Build in the security features you like. Carrying that chip might save their life, or so it’s touted. Being a public servant doesn’t mean you are exempt from newfangled things, it means you’re the Guinea Pig, or you don’t perceive yourself as a servant.
Advocates take the implant immediately. Their content is personal data, but they keep the chip for life.
Remember that the technology exists – even home made – to identify the person from more than a hundred feet away.
And remember that it would be important to prove the safety and benefits of the thing soon. Otherwise, people might get the idea that you don’t believe in your own product.
Better get started. I’d say by Summer, 2006, or you don’t really believe in the thing for yourself.
Why should we take it, then?
Oh, and one other thing: those such as myself who are opposed to the Flea get the opportunity to scan the chip for verification of proper placement and authentic content. You have to put in personal data and let me or someone I designate read it whenever we like to verify your verichip for shall we say. . good faith.
When some American cities advocated gun bans for citizens, I suggested in one of my articles disarming police first. After all, police weapons are not issued for the protection of citizens, but for the protection of the officer. Some cities began that policy, but it seems to have met with some resistance.
I believe the RFID Industry will balk in much the same way.
When it comes to allowing a flea on you, let’s hear your real-time, real-life report from the field.
You go first.
Understand that it would be good for the country.
_____________________________________
John Longenecker is author of Transfer of Wealth. His website is www.TransferOfWealth.net
RFID: The Flea And Human Implantation, 2006.
RFID Chips are tiny electronic circuits activated and powered by an electronic pulse from an external source. These chips are miniature records of personal data, and can be hidden anywhere. They can be written, read and rewritten like the magnetic stripe on the back of your credit card, driver’s license or grocery membership card. Any card.
There is no law against them at this time, there's no regulation, but there are dozens and dozens of applications, ranging from product monitoring to tracking of personal behavior in buying habits and travel and even personal consumption of products on real-time.
Homes of the future would use RFID chips throughout in anticipating your arrival home to actuate specific things you like waiting for you, to monitor the remaining milk in your fridge and even sense whether you’re taking your pills on time.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
They can also monitor personal... shall we say tastes by knowing what you've bought and brought home. And personal habits around the home, such as how much milkfat you consume, how much animal fat you consume and even the type of magazines (tastes) you buy.
This means not only reading who and what you are, but perhaps even speaking to you about who and what you ought to be. As if it's not already happening now. As I write often, privacy is a safeguard against mistake, abuse and retaliation.
Not only can the chip be read by marketers, by law enforcement and by criminals, but on a universal (worldwide) database, the content of amounts and character of what you buy can be read by insurance companies, sales weasels, and even columnists when you travel. Private Investigators can conduct asset searches and peek at your files today: will they, too, be able to peek in your home as sales weasels and others can?
Whatever you buy will be detected and possibly misunderstood once you get it home. Oops, I mean once you buy it. The Flea is on you. If you buy that dirty magazine and then throw it away, it’ll be known.
The RFID Industry is making a big push for their chips and sales can total in the billions of dollars in no time. Among the advocates are officials and, of course, shareholders.
It’s easy to find stories touting the benefits, including RFID Chips in automobile tires, clothing, toothpaste, medicines, patient identification, magazines, lighter fluid, auto parts tracking in shipping..it goes on.
And then there’s human implantation.
The applications seem sound, yes, but where such tracking is already too high a price, this is where the price is over the top.
Worldwide database sharing makes sales weasel monitor now Stalking.
RFID is one of those examples of a blend of well-intentioned and the ill-willed coming together for unrelated but long-sought gains. [The RFID Chip should be celebrating its thirty-fifth anniversary right about now. Patented in 1973, the Flea has been wanting to jump on people for three decades now, from the imagination of science fiction and automaton compliance of citizens to 2006 and beyond, there has never been a mistake in the goals of the little thing.]
I have said that privacy is a corner of our personal sovereignty, and our sovereignty and liberty are what America is all about. Much of the rest, well-intentioned or not, benefits or no, is intentional interference to remove that sovereignty for commercial gain, law enforcement gain and other gains.
Privacy and our sovereignty are carefully selected safeguards against mistake, abuse and retaliation. We reserve the right to say No.
..don’t we...?
But the pressure continues as industry reps lobby Congress to make no law and at present, there are no laws regarding RFID intrusions.
The Industry has published pieces about how RFID will not succeed without the approval of the People, but their idea of approval is to carry surreptitiously placed fleas in someday everything around the world (their forecast).
And don’t forget that any published article on the subject – such as implantation of chips in your tires or new car ignition key - is considered Public Notice. And your use of it thereafter is considered "acceptance" or consent via constructive notice.
Yet how do we opt-out of ignition keys and tires, say, if we merely wanted to exercise (test the current validity of) our right to refuse?
It’s an underhanded game of eventual defeat for sovereignty if we don’t object now and get definition on the books.
But what if Congress doesn’t act, and soon to protect the sovereignty that is our way of life and theirs?
They go first.
I’m willing to bet that Congress Critters - as usual - don’t imagine themselves living our way of life, the American way of life, that is.
I don’t think they like the idea that a home made parabolic reflector and a yagi antenna can extend the readability range of nearly any chip by many times. A range of thirty feet could become more than a hundred feet, and so forth. It may sound ludicrous that a criminal or a ring of criminals could place themselves above traffic with a conspicuous antenna to read passer-by, but it was done rather easily with bulky RF readers in pirating cell phones passing by.
The solution to the RFID debate is to forbid specific applications and to have provisions for a rather stiff penalty, mistake or no, with immense corporate liability. Like wiretapping is illegal. Wait a minute..
If they believe in the damned thing, let them back it up.
I’m all for banning them entirely because of abuse on both the industry clientele and the criminal. Where the customer has to pick up the cost of the Flea in more lost privacy, more inconvenience, more adaptations of our way of life, it amounts to nothing more than another looting of America: opportunistic feeding on our changing society with little return in benefits, really. Coinvenience for business, but little convenience – some – for consumers.
All things have a price. If that price is acceptable to individuals championing the Flea, let them prove it to us who are opposed. I’m open to hearing from the advocates and officials who endorse the Flea, a report from the field, so to speak; time to move out of the theoretical testing into field testing with real-life experience. Theirs.
Officials take implantation and wear it for five years with a nationwide moratorium on all other human implantation. Officials carry data on their personal identity, medical records and voting record, all of which are updated weekly. Build in the security features you like. Carrying that chip might save their life, or so it’s touted. Being a public servant doesn’t mean you are exempt from newfangled things, it means you’re the Guinea Pig, or you don’t perceive yourself as a servant.
Advocates take the implant immediately. Their content is personal data, but they keep the chip for life.
Remember that the technology exists – even home made – to identify the person from more than a hundred feet away.
And remember that it would be important to prove the safety and benefits of the thing soon. Otherwise, people might get the idea that you don’t believe in your own product.
Better get started. I’d say by Summer, 2006, or you don’t really believe in the thing for yourself.
Why should we take it, then?
Oh, and one other thing: those such as myself who are opposed to the Flea get the opportunity to scan the chip for verification of proper placement and authentic content. You have to put in personal data and let me or someone I designate read it whenever we like to verify your verichip for shall we say. . good faith.
When some American cities advocated gun bans for citizens, I suggested in one of my articles disarming police first. After all, police weapons are not issued for the protection of citizens, but for the protection of the officer. Some cities began that policy, but it seems to have met with some resistance.
I believe the RFID Industry will balk in much the same way.
When it comes to allowing a flea on you, let’s hear your real-time, real-life report from the field.
You go first.
Understand that it would be good for the country.
_____________________________________
John Longenecker is author of Transfer of Wealth. His website is www.TransferOfWealth.net
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