On Aug 19, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<<http://www.rednova.com/news/health/196561/
health_chips_could_help_patients_in_us/>>
If somebody wants to be chipped instead of wearing
a MedAlert ID (pendant or bracelet), that's their
business, but _I_ certainly won't allow my
personal
med hx to be made available to any who can read
such a chip.
The following might be of interest:
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2060
"The RSA® Blocker Tag is itself a RFID tag -- in
size and cost much like
a conventional RFID tag. The RSA® Blocker Tag,
however, helps consumers
to manage their live RFID tags in a
privacy-protecting manner."
Why am I thinking of that childhood song about the old
lady who swallowed a fly...?
Makes me think of caller ID. You can have it blocked, so your callees
can't see your number … but then, you can block calls which have caller
ID blocked. The latest workaround is apparently to register as
"anonymous" or call from an exchange that masks your number. And so on
it goes. I expect this blocker tag thing to either be regulated, or to
have a back door … sigh.
I don't *want* a transparent society for exactly the same reasons I
don't want to take down the curtains over my windows (and don't want my
neighbors to either; some things really aren't meant to be seen ;). And
I particularly am not sanguine about technology that is supposed to
"help" us but, Pandora-fashion, turns out to bear hidden consequences,
such as crackers being able to steal 30+ million unenciphered credit
card numbers by getting into a database collected by a company that had
no use whatsoever for the data -- it was just gathering it *because it
was there to be gathered*.
As for Tommy Thompson -- I used to live in WI. He's not one of my faves
either.
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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