http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/ Engadget Comments for Hitachi shows off 7.5 micron thick mu-chip RFID tag http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 6th 2006 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/
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No, my fear with RFID is that they'll decrease security. It's so easy right now to read any RFID that somebody's carrying around on them, and once you get that far you're in a position to start spoofing just about anybody you can scan -- which is just about anybody. If we start relying on RFID alone for personal identification, identity theft will become (more?) rampant. And if we use RFID in conjunction with more traditional forms of identification, we lose all the advantages of the technology.

I say leave RFID for applications where it's useful and the lack of security doesn't matter so much, like inventory scanning or those RFID-based checkouts that some stores (not in the US, AFAIK) have. For personal identification and the like, mag strips are a lot more secure (since you have to actually swipe the card to read the data on it, rather than pinging it from across the room) and really not any less convenient. Also, the need to remove a mag strip card to swipe it makes human backup checks more practical. (Looking to see if the picture on the card jives with the person walking through, etc.)

RFID is a great and useful technology, but as usual people are throwing it about willy-nilly like it's some universal panacea, when it's got its flaws just like anything else. I wouldn't worry overmuch about inhaling RFID tracking devices, though. (Mainly because RFID is just about useless for tracking.)]]>Feb 6th 2006 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 6th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/
I am eating "black-pepper" chicken right now that appears to be covered with these things...]]>Feb 6th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/
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I think three semi-trailers loaded full of batteries and a goddamn massive aerial mounted on top (not to mention the electronic devices that will malfunction) might be a bit of a giveaway that the government is trying to read the public's RFID chips over long ranges.

Please remember that the range of passive RFID is only around a foot, in most cases, much less. Inverse square law, people!]]>Feb 7th 2006 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 7th 2006 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 7th 2006 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 7th 2006 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 7th 2006 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 7th 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Feb 19th 2006 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/Jul 5th 2006 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/
Only give it time when these things can transmit miles and everyone of us will have an RFID identifying us as a person.

The collation of various datasources will mean that our id will enable 'officials' to gather EVERY THING about you, including what you have last purchased, when you visited the doctors and what for.

Currently personal data is scattered accross the internet and in issolated systems, the govenment want to draw this information together using a common ID (like an ID card, RFID Tag etc) so that they can view every thing about you,

Scary stuff! ]]>Nov 12th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/hitachi-shows-off-7-5-micron-thick-mu-chip-rfid-tag/May 18th 2008 7:15PM