-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote: > > I'd rather have stiff cards than floppy paper ones. At least you can put > > them into the slot of a machine easily. > > But with an RF tag you'd not even have to pull it out of your pocket :-) > >Putting RF Tags in cash is one of those ideas with Unintended Consequences. >Muggers would love having a way of determining which victims are carrying a >wad, as would many salesmen (and JBTs looking to perform a 'civil >confiscation' on 'a sum of currency'.)
Not to mention the possibility of a surreptitious centralized database tracking purchases of people on a watch list. Sign up if you want to, but you might do well to remember a point Lt. Gen. Hayden (who really ought to know) once made: all SIGINT can be defeated and destroyed simply by putting the handset in the receiver. Something to keep in mind while you're thinking this through,anyway. As for the counterfeiting problem, nobody's said much about the kind of sophisticated countermeasures used in casino chips, for example. Seems workable. One of many interesting topics covered in a truly frightening pub you might not have come across: Global ID Magazine http://web.tiscali.it/homeglobal/issues.htm Global ID Magazine is a publication describing the activity and the products of the leading Identification (ID) Technology Suppliers in the world. Its scope encompasses state-of-the-art technologies, innovative concepts and trends within the automatic identification systems industry that will have the most significant impact on design and use of ID systems. The editorial focus of Global ID Magazine is on the use of identification systems based on radio frequency, biometrics, global positioning, multifunctional systems, data communication and similar. Global ID Magazine speaks to decision makers, both at a management and at a technical level, within companies that use or could leverage from using ID systems. It suggests innovative solutions, the improvement of existing applications, describing trends and future possibilities. ~Faustine. *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPLNWGvg5Tuca7bfvEQLRzQCg2iSdcpbXf/K+FQRzVNGYa9voHToAn3Jd 35JycT/4X0aUnT7bzWycwYEe =sSz8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
