Spychips RFID Blog

Katherine

I caught your October 1, 2005 show on Coast To Coast AM with Ian Punnett as a rebroadcast last night, and I'm sure glad I did! I had missed it the first time...

This is fascinating/horrifying stuff! Very much like watching an incipient train wreck. And we, as consumers, need to stop this train.

I've linked to your blog on my own site, and I'll be posting alerts to your latest info as it comes up. We bloggers link one to another, and word can spread very quickly... Interactive consumerism -- doncha just love it?

And have you seen the "latest" info that the bird flu vaccine is time-sensitive, as well as being easily overcome by the mutating virus? Panic-induced stockpiling of the vaccine just backfired, big time!

Question: What would happen if, as a consumer, I take the RFID label off the item I just paid for -- before I take it out of the store?

I'm going to see if I can find something with a visible RFID tag, buy it, and do just that. See if I can attract any attention.

Howdy, I'm just wanting to clarify somethign from an earlier blog entry:
"That manager knows something I was just realizing: that there will soon be nothing left at Kmart for either of us. The corporate committee guy, and the hundreds of corporate committee guys like him, won't rest until they have everyone at the store, from customers and cashiers on up to managers flattened spread-eagle against the wall, stripped of the authority to make any decisions short of which button to press or which way to be entered into the system -- Visa, Mastercard, or chip implant. There will be no more thinking outside the software. Acts of defiance, like a manager entering his ID for a customer, will be ruthlessly rooted out."

The line "authority to make any decisions"
Which decisions are you referring to?
In the case described, all I see is a clerk utilizing a "system".
Granted it's one that requires entry of a portion of data into a computer, which we didn't have to do a number of years ago.
But then again, we also didn't used to have to fill out the long tax forms we do now.
What , are we going to NOT fill them out because we have a philosophical opposition to them?

I wonder, what happens when you, or like minded folks go to the hospital?
There is a huge machine/system of data gathering that takes place there...
Genuinely curious, not just arguing..

I say all that from this paradigm:
If the system you are participating in is not causing physical or measurable harm to you or your family, why "fight" against it?
If our society deems that a computer system gather data (license #'s etc) what harm, unless it comes to receiving an injection, or other such intrusive means?
I would think that the balanced, reasonable approach is to play along with the dumb and oftimes cumbersome systems until such time as it causes measurable harm.
MHO.

Thanks,
Rich

Please correct me if I am wrong on this:

After someone has paid for something the item then becomes their property to do with as they wish, in or out of the store. And that goes for the item as well as anything stuck on it whether that is a price sticker, RFID or otherwise.

And if I may, I would like to mention finding RFIDs myself:

Yesterday I received an order from Amazon and when I sat down to look through one of the books out slipped, from the back pages, a barcode on a slick piece of paper. When I peeled back the barcode I saw there was something stuck to it but I couldn't really tell what it was. So I peeled this other thing away (and it wasn't too easy--really strong adhesive they use) and it was an RFID tag. Anyway, it has now been deactivated and disposed of. But I don't know if it was put in the book by Amazon or Gibbs Smith of Layton, Utah the publisher or someone else. I plan to order the Spychips book from Amazon and will let you know if it comes with an RFID in it.

Also, the same day as I first read this site, I decided to check some of the items in our house. On the back of two computer printer ink cartridge boxes there were RFID tags under barcode stickers. But four other boxes (same brand, different colours) didn't have them. Unless, of course, they just look different from the ones I have seen so far in person.

Makes me wonder where else they may be lurking. The above mentioned ink cartridges were bought and have been sitting behind me for many, many months ago.

And then (I think it was yesterday morning), coming out of a grocery store I noticed what looked like the same kind of RFID thing on the ground just outside their front entrance. This grocery store chain also has a loyalty card.

The possibility (or even certainty) of an H5N1 based pandemic, we face a world of trade-offs. I would much prefer

• a world where Tamiflu was protected from conterfeiting by the use of RFID and any other careful chain-of-custody inventory protections


• and even a world where implanted RFIDs made antivirals available to individuals in the quantities that they need for their family's protection.