The government keeps telling us that our data is safe with them (Data Insecurity - Trust Us!) and that RFID technology will work. In Australia with their NAIS similar system (NLIS) a large proportion of the RFID tags are failing to read resulting in economic losses and wasted time for farmers. Now this news from Germany:
A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year.
The controversial e-passports contain radio frequency ID, or RFID, chips that the U.S. State Department and others say will help thwart document forgery. But Lukas Grunwald, a security consultant with DN-Systems in Germany and an RFID expert, says the data in the chips is easy to copy.
“The whole passport design is totally brain damaged,” Grunwald says. “From my point of view all of these RFID passports are a huge waste of money. They’re not increasing security at all.”
Grunwald plans to demonstrate the cloning technique Thursday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
-Wired News
Remember: They’re here from the government to help us…
Hat tip to Kim
NH, got CM article. Sent letter. -WJ
Call, write and fax this to every one of those running for office, in office and especially to USDA and President Bush. I am serious. If need be take our an ad, make up flyers, stamp it on envelopes, take a full sheet mailing label and print it and put it on your shirts for all to see. I am so tired of our government selling us out, well actually, selling us by the head lock(borders),stock (animals and plants) and infrastructure(literally land and improvements like roads, bridges and our farm land and factories).
Everyone must push without stopping and get change.
Come to Kansas City, MO the 23rd and stand your ground for no more human or animal id schemes.
Comment Sue Karber — August 16, 2006 @ 11:41 am
Crooks, forgers and the like can find a way around any type of technology. The government can change our money any way they want and it can be counterfeited quickly. There is no escape from fraud. Where there is the will to cheat and deceive, there is a way.
Comment Goatster — August 16, 2006 @ 3:19 pm
There are some reasonable uses of RFID technology. Tagging me is not one of them.
Comment Mark V. — August 16, 2006 @ 5:52 pm
gmograssescape
I think I believe in ‘free enterprise’ if it is not given special dispensation by the People’s Representatives who have covenanted to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, (&) promote the general Welfare…”
The above linked incident is not an isolated phenomenon. Our 1700 acre farm is surrounded by GMO corn, sunflower, oat, & soy crops. We are regularly aerial sprayed with Round-up by our neighbors. Noxious weeds run rampant on nearby Corps of Engineers ‘taken’ waterways and follow the watershed up into our prairie hills. Of course, they are Round-up resistant.
My once heirloom, open pollinaterd native corn is now tainted with the BT gene that happily kills not only the corn borer, but bees & butterflies.
I realize this is somewhat of a side issue and yet, it does exemplify federal & state government complicity with big business at the expense of our health, safety, domestic Tranquility, and general Welfare. We are not being represented.
Sad, unheaded warning from Thomas Jefferson in 1816:
“I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
Comment donna — August 17, 2006 @ 3:18 pm
Forgive me if it seems that this is a run on commentary from ‘donna’. I happened across this additional article on GMO crops overseen by USDA/APHIS. My, my…
USDA/APHIS&GMO
Comment donna — August 17, 2006 @ 8:46 pm
This is from New Zealand and new July 2006:
Microchipping
From 1 July 2006 new legislation comes into effect meaning all new puppies need to be microchipped within two months of when they are registered.
Farm dogs used mainly for herding and driving stock are exempt from microchipping.
You will also need to microchip your dog if:
you are registering your dog in New Zealand for the first time (this mainly applies to puppies)
your dog is classified as dangerous
your dog is classified as menacing
your unregistered dog is impounded for the first time from 1 July
your registered dog has been impounded for the second time from 1 July.
Microchipping has been introduced by Parliament to make it easier to track down dogs that get lost and to identify dangerous dogs.
Microchipping services may be provided by vets with councils then verifying the microchipping.
Failure to microchip your dog if it falls into one of the microchipping categories could result in prosecution and a $3,000 fine.
Comment LuAnn — August 18, 2006 @ 9:12 am