The Real Big Brother
Passports to get RFID chip implants
The government is going hightech on USA passports starting in october 2006. They are adding Remotely Readable Microchips that contain all kinds of vital information, including a picture. This normaly would affect nobody, since americans dont have passports. More folks are gonna be carring them soon since the bureaucracy changed the rules, it will begin requiring passports for trips to mexico, canada, and the caribbean. I for one carry mine everywhere, if someone who makes $5.50 an hour has been given the power by the government to ask "Papers Please" for me to buy beer or papers, thier gonna see the official ones. This is being sold as a way to stop fakes, ha! It is another attempt/exploitation by the man to invade our privacy via the unfound fears he sells full of terrorists since 911.
Its a way to track US cititzens, period. I can understand why, since like many americans i believe anyone who would be interested in visiting another country must be unamerican and/or a commie. Not.
This new "transmitter" can be thought of as a "beacon" of sorts, emiting your information to anyone who finds a way to pull it out of thin air. The "safety" features that would prevent someone from reading them are inept to say the least, and from what some write even the code used is bunk. The links in this article are also quite interesting.
Then again, as a secret agent this could help me in some ways... ha... haha... haaa!!!
I wonder how tough these chipy things are against a hammer?
The government is going hightech on USA passports starting in october 2006. They are adding Remotely Readable Microchips that contain all kinds of vital information, including a picture. This normaly would affect nobody, since americans dont have passports. More folks are gonna be carring them soon since the bureaucracy changed the rules, it will begin requiring passports for trips to mexico, canada, and the caribbean. I for one carry mine everywhere, if someone who makes $5.50 an hour has been given the power by the government to ask "Papers Please" for me to buy beer or papers, thier gonna see the official ones. This is being sold as a way to stop fakes, ha! It is another attempt/exploitation by the man to invade our privacy via the unfound fears he sells full of terrorists since 911.
Its a way to track US cititzens, period. I can understand why, since like many americans i believe anyone who would be interested in visiting another country must be unamerican and/or a commie. Not.
This new "transmitter" can be thought of as a "beacon" of sorts, emiting your information to anyone who finds a way to pull it out of thin air. The "safety" features that would prevent someone from reading them are inept to say the least, and from what some write even the code used is bunk. The links in this article are also quite interesting.
Then again, as a secret agent this could help me in some ways... ha... haha... haaa!!!
I wonder how tough these chipy things are against a hammer?
posted by JackIrons009 at 1:13 PM
Comments on "The Real Big Brother"
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C-C-C-Corn Dog said ... (11:18 AM) :
post a commentAnyone who's seen that commercial where the lady stops the truck driver because he's on the wrong road and she knows because "the boxes told me. RFID tags in the boxes..." ought to have at least an inkling of the implications of this. They're banking on our technological ineptitude because if the general public really had a clue of the implications, I think they'd throw a fit. Invasion of privacy is too soft of an accusation for what this is.
/end rant