he started out as little brother, you know
Via Slashdot: a Cincinatti company is requiring that its employees receive injected RFID chips in order to gain access to the corporate datacenter. Workers won't get fired if they say no, but one has to wonder what effect declining the injection might have on a person's career. Not a good one, I'm guessing.
I should work myself up into a righteous dudgeon, throw around some inflammatory superlatives and send everyone to the EFF's donation page. But honestly, I just feel a sort of giddy thrill about this. It's the same feeling as in the moment when a rollercoaster crests its first hill: we're on the verge of something bad, and completely powerless to stop it.
And, on that dogmatic pro-privacy note, allow me to inform you that we're now tracking you in new and terrifying ways. Well, okay, not that terrifying — we just put our RSS feed into Feedburner. Look! It's all pretty now!
I set up a forwarder so that you shouldn't have to change any settings in your newsreader. But I thought I'd mention the change, lest anyone freak out over the newly omnipresent Feedburner URLs in our RSS.
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I'd rather have an RFID in my bicep than give blood, fingerprints, voice or have my retina scanned. Of course, the thieves/hackers could always cut off my arm and use the bloody stump to gain access... but that requires some "dedication".
In the end, this is another way to ensure security in an insecure world. All security measures can be defeated. Unknown quote: "I've never met a lock I couldn't pick."
How true!
This was supposed to be dripping and oozing with sarcasm and insight, Tom. Hence the bloody stump reference to circumvention and the overall insecurity of just about everything. Was I too subtle?
Blood -> DNA -> cloning... frame me for murder
Fingerprints -> frame me for murder
voice -> frame me for murder
retina scan -> blindness... which work disability probably won't cover
bloody stump -> non-technical way of defeating security
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