Police State America, RFID, and You
Starmail - 2. Apr, 22:59
RFID
2
Apr
2005
WE CAN STOP RFID IN PASSPORTS
URGENT REQUEST - this will take only 5 minutes of your time
WHAT: Tell the government you oppose spychips in passports
WHERE: http://www.rfidkills.com/action.html
WHEN: By Monday, April 4th, at 5:00 PM EST
Add your protest comment to the hundreds that have already been filed. Then forward this email and spread the word!
THE PROBLEM: SPYCHIPS PLANNED FOR PASSPORTS
The US Department of State plans to put remotely readable radio frequency identification (RFID) spychips into all new passports. These tiny computer spychips will use radio waves to broadcast the information contained on our passports -- including name, date and place of birth, passport number and photograph -- right through our wallets, backpacks, pockets or purses, to nearby reader devices.
The data will not be encrypted or protected in any way. This reckless plan could put Americans traveling overseas at risk of attack by thieves, muggers, kidnappers, and even terrorists who could use portable reader devices to zero in on the radio signals emanating from our passports. Don't let the federal government put a spychip in *your* pocket!
NOTE: While the maximum legal read range of the passport chips is only a few inches, criminals can eavesdrop on official reader devices to capture your data from across a room or potentially even down the block.
(Even if you don't have a passport, this still impacts you. Passport chipping is a trial run for other documents. If we allow this to happen, drivers licenses will be next.)
THE SOLUTION:
Join the nationwide outcry against spychipped passports!
Our friends at RFIDKILLS.COM have put together a quick and easy way to submit your comments against spychipped passports directly to the US State Department.
There are four days left to inundate the State Department with complaints. Write a short note of opposition yourself (even something as simple as "I oppose RFID in passports" is fine.) Then ask five friends to do the same.
It will take only a few thousand Americans speaking out against this plan to put an end to it. Please do your part!
Note: RFIDKILLS.com is not officially affiliated with CASPIAN, but we know and trust the people behind it. We are supporting them every step of the way. Please do the same!
In Freedom,
Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy
CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing supermarket "loyalty" cards and other retail surveillance schemes since 1999.
http://www.spychips.com/
http://www.nocards.org/
You're welcome to duplicate and distribute this message to others who may find it of interest.
WHAT: Tell the government you oppose spychips in passports
WHERE: http://www.rfidkills.com/action.html
WHEN: By Monday, April 4th, at 5:00 PM EST
Add your protest comment to the hundreds that have already been filed. Then forward this email and spread the word!
THE PROBLEM: SPYCHIPS PLANNED FOR PASSPORTS
The US Department of State plans to put remotely readable radio frequency identification (RFID) spychips into all new passports. These tiny computer spychips will use radio waves to broadcast the information contained on our passports -- including name, date and place of birth, passport number and photograph -- right through our wallets, backpacks, pockets or purses, to nearby reader devices.
The data will not be encrypted or protected in any way. This reckless plan could put Americans traveling overseas at risk of attack by thieves, muggers, kidnappers, and even terrorists who could use portable reader devices to zero in on the radio signals emanating from our passports. Don't let the federal government put a spychip in *your* pocket!
NOTE: While the maximum legal read range of the passport chips is only a few inches, criminals can eavesdrop on official reader devices to capture your data from across a room or potentially even down the block.
(Even if you don't have a passport, this still impacts you. Passport chipping is a trial run for other documents. If we allow this to happen, drivers licenses will be next.)
THE SOLUTION:
Join the nationwide outcry against spychipped passports!
Our friends at RFIDKILLS.COM have put together a quick and easy way to submit your comments against spychipped passports directly to the US State Department.
There are four days left to inundate the State Department with complaints. Write a short note of opposition yourself (even something as simple as "I oppose RFID in passports" is fine.) Then ask five friends to do the same.
It will take only a few thousand Americans speaking out against this plan to put an end to it. Please do your part!
Note: RFIDKILLS.com is not officially affiliated with CASPIAN, but we know and trust the people behind it. We are supporting them every step of the way. Please do the same!
In Freedom,
Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy
CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing supermarket "loyalty" cards and other retail surveillance schemes since 1999.
http://www.spychips.com/
http://www.nocards.org/
You're welcome to duplicate and distribute this message to others who may find it of interest.
Starmail - 2. Apr, 00:11
1
Apr
2005
RFID Kills, stop death by passport
Starmail - 1. Apr, 14:22
24
Mrz
2005
22
Mrz
2005
U.S. Defense Department is testing a tag that combines RFID, GPS and satellite communication
The U.S. Defense Department is testing a tag that combines RFID, GPS and satellite communication, so that military personnel can know a tag's location at any time.
By Jonathan Collins
Mar. 21, 2005—Exploring ways to extend military supply chain visibility, the U.S. Department of Defense recently tested a new generation of active (battery-powered) RFID tags with satellite-communication capabilities that enabled the tags to give their precise location even when in the most remote and inhospitable areas.
"The prototype tags function just as the current RFID tags that can be pinged at ports, depots and distribution centers by interrogators, but they can also phone home," says Larry Loiacono, an information technology specialist at the Defense Distribution Center, headquartered in New Cumberland, Pa. Part of the DOD's Defense Logistics Agency, the DDC oversees 26 military distribution depots worldwide.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1458/1/1/
Peace - Anna
By Jonathan Collins
Mar. 21, 2005—Exploring ways to extend military supply chain visibility, the U.S. Department of Defense recently tested a new generation of active (battery-powered) RFID tags with satellite-communication capabilities that enabled the tags to give their precise location even when in the most remote and inhospitable areas.
"The prototype tags function just as the current RFID tags that can be pinged at ports, depots and distribution centers by interrogators, but they can also phone home," says Larry Loiacono, an information technology specialist at the Defense Distribution Center, headquartered in New Cumberland, Pa. Part of the DOD's Defense Logistics Agency, the DDC oversees 26 military distribution depots worldwide.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1458/1/1/
Peace - Anna
Starmail - 22. Mär, 17:53
21
Mrz
2005
IBM and the Microchipped Population
Starmail - 21. Mär, 18:19
Conditioning for the real thing?
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