It has been a while[1]/sup/a since I last wrote about RFID. The most recent article I have read on the subject is substantially more of a concern than the others that show up in the recent history if you search “Random Unfinished Thoughts.”[2]/a/sup This is because I now read about tagging people/em, not products/em or even documents/em.[3]/a/sup This takes the idea of biometric authentication to a new and highly disturbing level. Notably, it combines the worst aspects of biometrics' hard-to-deny with RFID’s easy-to-covertly-read. Thus if it ever does prove forgable, as is rather likely, as it would be a purely technical matter of reverse engineering the chip inside, you will have a particularly nasty sort of identity theft./p
The pluses for those wishing to secure facilities and monitor workers are as considerable as the risks are, so I expect that this sort of monitoring will become more prevalent./p
- Mr. Luke Schierer. “200505-04-1118” Random Unfinished Thoughts 2005-05-04. https://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20050504-1118/20050504-1118/font/li
- Mr. Luke Schierer. Search of Random Unfinished Thoughts for “RFID.” https://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/index.php?s=RFID This will naturally change with time./font/li
- Mr. Richard Waters. “US group implants electronic tags in workers” Financial Times (online) 2006-02-12. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ec414700-9bf4-11da-8baa-0000779e2340.html /font/li/font/ol