Wonderful book from an expert in RFID technology. I have read Albrecht's website off and on for years. I have a lot of experience in this area and related security fields. I bought the Kindle version.
The book quotes what people in the industry HAVE SAID about what they are PLANNING TO DO. It is not some conspiracy theory when the heads of the industry are talking about tracking and control of products and humans. And fining behaviors they do not like.
I recommend the book for people who do not want to be pushed around.
I admire how Albrecht documents the history of the industry, how it started to track things and market to people and how they can track every consumer item from manufacturing, to the store shelves, to giving you a ticket for not recycling enough or fine you for putting recycling into the garbage can.
In the future (the only speculation on this response) every owner of a thing could be listed in a company file. Joe bought it at Wal-Mart, then gave it to Linda who wore it out on a date with Bill and then gave it to Lori who has it sitting in her closet for the last 10 days.
Dreamy world isn't it. Lolly-pops and ice cream.
That's the plan, the grand conspiracy of it all and it was all laid out in 1999, ON AND FOR THE RECORD.
(Not trying to yell just emphasizing)
There is always some Communist wanting to control everything from the top down, because people at the bottom don't want what they offer.
You may not need this book, but your children will definitely need this book for their own protection.
If you don't know about technology then you can only be enslaved by it.
Many people want to just let things happen to them. Other people refuse to be assaulted when it is unnecessary.
The industry has been asked to make the RFID chips removable by the consumer, but they have refused. So it's not for tracking inventory. RFID will remain HIDDEN and un-removable, against your will and over your objection. You must comply!
The Benetton fiasco involved HIDDEN RFID tracking of women's underwear, which is pretty funny if you think about it. But since women are smart! they quit buying from Benetton, because no one really wants to be tracked.
Benetton apologized to get their business back. Smart women making smart choices never went back.
For the guy who writes tracking systems, so do I. Most programmers are not privy to what happens after the program and local databases are created. Your program never sees that data or who it is sold to, so you would not know where the data goes after it leaves your store.
For the guy who asked how ... here's how:
An RFID reader can read for 10 feet all day, any day of the week.
The RFID is just a long, really long number a ninety-six bit code (96 - 0's and 1's).
33 bit of which are designed to track humans. Number of the beast anyone?
There are several kinds of RFID, but the worst is a rice grain sized glass capsule.
When you pass by a reader, the reader sends out a radio (read radiation) signal and the chip is activated and sends back a number with the power supplied to it by the radiation coming from the reader.
THE RFIDs have no power of their own.
Their power to transmit a signal is based on the RADIATION sent to it, by the reader.
The RADIATION supplies enough power from the reader to energize the transmission of the RFID number.
Without RADIATION the reader system cannot read the RFID chips.
Ultra-high Frequency (UHF) Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation right below microwave radiation and used to be used for television transmissions.
Unlike TV you can be right beside the reader transmitting the radiation.
This would be like having a cell phone right next to your head.
Cell phones use microwave radiation.
They say the radiation from the readers is safe. Who knows if they are telling the truth?
What is the radiation dose of the readers and how often do you go shopping and are exposed to the radiation of the readers?
None of which "defies physics".
As a matter of fact it is the creative use of physics that makes it all possible.
But all the numbers are kept track of in a central database.
How do you think they make really long numbers, that never repeat.
Someone has to keep track those numbers, so none of the numbers ever repeat.
It is a necessity and not a conspiracy.
They could have made all the numbers of a product the same. Just like they do with bar codes. Bar code readers do not emit radiation. They could do the same inventory by saying we have 10 tubes of toothpaste just by using a reader near the shelf. Instead they have an individual one of a kind number on every tube of toothpaste. The only added benefit is that they can now associate that one of a kind number with your tube of toothpaste and your credit card and your house and . . . and . . .
When you buy an item at the store the RFID number on the item is matched to your credit card. Anyone with a few dollars can match your credit card number to your name and your address and your phone number since about 10 years ago.
All companies sell your information for money. It is a BIG business.
The companies are using the RFID chip readers right now. That buzzer at the front of the store is connected to a computer that scans all the items in your shopping cart (less than a second) and then checks their local database to see if those RFID chips have been sold at the register.
If the item was not removed from inventory at the register, then the buzzer goes off.
That is great. No shoplifters.
Problem is that the next time you go into the store wearing your new HIDDEN RFID underwear the reader sends out a signal and your HIDDEN RFID underwear sends the reader its RFID number.
The computer then goes out on the internet to "THE SERVICE" and looks up your information (if you used a credit card) now the store knows who you are. Not by the RFID number, but by the credit card you used to purchase the non-repeating RFID number that was HIDDEN in your underwear .
Against your will and over your objection. You must comply!
RFID is just like communism, everyone must accept it or be forced to accept it. Because we said so.
That did not work when I was a child. And as a man it is not happening.
One day they will have a sign at the front that says welcome Mr. Smith nice underwear. But it has been six months and you need a new pair.
It gets worse.
Unless you remove the HIDDEN RFID chip from the sole of your shoe (inside the sole) or the wall of your car tire (that's right your tires) then a reader can read the RFID number as you go into a store, walk by the front of the store or drive through an intersection. (tires can only be read about a foot because of the wire belts in the tire and the rubber (a 60% loss). But with readers under the street (with the pressure sensors ... those cuts in the pavement at the light) it is still no problem reading the HIDDEN RFID chips in your tires) The infrastructure is already in place.
Side note: if your tire blows out a sidewall it may well be the RFID chip caused the failure. The tire industry has had a really hard time getting the RFID chips to stay in the tires and not cause a failure of the tire wall.
The RIFD number is then looked up in a database and the credit card is matched to that number and now whatever store you are passing by, can see how much you make, what your house is worth and in many cases how much you make a year at your job. (those databases are already up and running for 20 years now)
So much for conspiracy theories.
If you pay with a credit card "everyone" in the supply chain knows who you are. That data is sold. It is a BIG business.
As far as not enough computer storage to store all the information. Ever heard of credit bureaus?
There are currently 3 credit bureaus that store every credit card transaction you make and every item you buy with said credit card. As well as your last three jobs, your address, the last 5 sale prices of your house, your job title, how many miles you travel to work, etc.
You should look into how the Credit Bureaus were created. You will be horrified.
Wal-Mart is not talking to Target. They both send their information to the Credit bureaus like a central communist command. All frequent shopper cards are the same way, sold to many centralized databases.
All the RFID chips Wal-Mart mandates in their stores have individual non-repeating numbers. Great for inventory of products or humans.
No one is saying that RFID chips are not wonderful for inventory control. Checkout lines can be reduced to seconds once every manufacturer is forced to use them. The problem is that they are being imbedded in products so they cannot be removed. So YOU can be tracked later on.
At some point it will be made against the law to remove an RFID chip just like it is against the law to remove a tag on a mattress. You can call this prediction a conspiracy theory if you want to. But I said the NSA was recording every call and people called that a conspiracy theory, until they saw it on the news.
The NSA has built a storage facility in Utah (declassified) that holds every phone call made in the USA now and in the future. Not enough computer space ... give me a break.
The data is collected and stored in a database. Why would we want to make THEIR collection of OUR data more secure?
I don't want them to collect anything.
At our local grocery store all the prices went up right after the frequent shopper card was introduced. So card holders are getting the old high prices and non-card shoppers are forced to give over their information or pay even higher prices. That is normally called coercion to be forced to do something to get a better price. Yes you can be discriminated against and then choose to leave and go to Wal-Mart, but do you want to be discriminated against? What happens when Wal-Mart uses shopper cards? Then where do you go?
The purchases from the card holders are ALL SOLD as information to anyone willing to pay. It is a BIG business.
For those who don't believe in the data exchanges, recently a man was arrested for buying too many baggies at the grocery store. The FBI found out about him because he used the store's Frequent shopper card to buy the baggies. The FBI used a service that bought the card information.
Seems unfair, but it is hardly a conspiracy theory. All data you give is sold. It is a BIG business.
As for EZPass your car is tracked everywhere. They could have made a system that did not track you and just made a payment, but that was not the design. That is why there is a push for toll roads. They don't need toll roads. But they are convenient if you want to track cars and cattle, I mean people.
Or try OnStar if you want tracking and eavesdropping and unlocking your car or stopping the engine while you are driving. Oops we thought you were a criminal. Sorry for the pileup.
At least you can opt out in older cars. It comes wired in whether you want it or not for some newer cars.
Don't want to pay for it. We will keep it active in case we want to lock you out of your car so it can be repossessed.
Senator Joseph McCarthy was a patriot who saw communist recruiters taking over Hollywood in order to manipulate the public through psychology. Well, here we are 60 years later and guess what, McCarthy was correct after all.
Is there one person in America who does not think Communists have taken over Hollywood?
Many conservatives complain they cannot get into movies because they are turned down for not being communists. There are several groups making this claim.
Socialist Communists try to say McCarthy attacked innocent people. It's just bad people, saying they are not bad.
So in conclusion it's great for your refrigerator to tell you, your milk is one week old, but not so great when you get a doctor's note from ObamaCare that you have to be fined 100.00 this week for eating too many frozen pizzas. Just because your refrigerator called the internet on you.
By the way you did not recycle all those packages properly because there is a scale on the recycle truck and it read all the RFID chips in the garbage and they don't match all the bad food in your refrigerator. Fine 50.00 the first time and 100.000 the second time.
The scale is already on the recycling truck, ... look it up.
Funniest thing about all of this is the manufacturers don't realize what they are doing to themselves. Karl Marx called them useful idiots. Once RFIDs are required everywhere, the guys in charge of the RFID central database will be able to commit unbelievable corporate espionage. They will know every ingredient and every piece of inventory in every business. Everything in and out of every world wide business. They will be able to crush the supply lines of any business and put them out of business with one phone call.
Nothing like digging their own graves.
SOLUTION:
You give out all the information that people know about you.
So stop filling out forms.
Stop using credit cards and
use cash.
Using cash is green.
It does not require hundreds of people in credit card sweat shops, tracking your orders and your credit and how much you make and where you live, so you can be approved for more debt slavery.
Think of all the gas wasted and all the productivity that could be transferred to other businesses that don't hurt you.
You could save the planet.
OK ... I can't stop laughing.
Use cash or anonymous gift cards, thwart the system.
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