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February 14, 2007
Hitachi's "Weaponized" RFID Powder
The picture on the left shows Hitachi's infamous mu chip, once heralded as the world's smallest RFID tag. Back in 2003, it was touted as the perfect size for embedding into currency, slipping into bullets, and even tagging humans. The siren song of this dot-sized tracker even lured the Malaysian government into buying rights to it.
One can only wonder how Hitachi's new "weaponized" RFID powder could be used and abused, if reports of its existence are true. It is supposedly 64 times smaller than the mu chip, measures in at just .05 X.05 mm, but can still hold a unique 38-digit number. Specks of this RFID powder are shown next to a human hair in the picture on the right from pinktentacle.com.
For additional information, see:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/02/hitachi-develops-rfid-powder/
- Liz McIntyre
Posted by liz at February 14, 2007 10:32 AM
Comments
See "Cryptography on a Speck of Dust" by Jens-Peter Kaps (of George Mason University) published in IEEE Computer Feb. 2007 pp38-44.
Copy of this paper at: http://ece.gmu.edu/~jkaps/publications.html
Posted by: RS at February 14, 2007 1:02 PM
More on the scary "weaponized" RFID powder here.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=939
What's it going to take to stop these demons?
Posted by: dicktater at February 15, 2007 1:49 AM