Does the existence of this device convey our tacit acceptance that RFIDification is already a done deal?

I’d feel a lot better about an RFID fryer. Because I don’t think we’ve done the dialog yet. And I’m dismayed by the world we’re heading for.

Rieback et at. did a great job making the blocker tag a reality.

However, there’s no law in place that requires anyone to accept the RFID data emitted by this device as if it were emitted by the original device, for hopefully obvious reasons.

So, you could probably use this to hide the data on your passport, but it wouldn’t help you get on a plane. You’d still have to hand over your real passport and allow them to scan the RFID.

“…passport and credit card shielding sleeves are small, portable Faraday cages.”

This solves the issues discussed above, and is after all simple and reliable to use.

This program is called NAIS (national animal identification system) will force everyone who owns even one livestock animal on a private level, say as pets or for their own consumption, to register their premises with the government, microchip and file reports to the govt on every birth, death and off property move those animals make. If animal disease is suspected an entire 6 mile radius of animals can be depopulated (killed). Think I am kidding? I only wish I were.

NAIS is a business plan for corporate agriculture, even though the USDA is pushing it as an animal disease tracking plan. But even Granny’s hens, my horses and pet pot belly pigs in suburbia are included by having to tag and track and report all their births, deaths and off property movements. Why? So corporate ag can tell the world what a safe meat supply they have and Japan will buy that beef. But they only have one lot number per groups of animals, no chipping and few reporting events. Yup! Makes sure sense to me. Just like me having a disease but I force YOU to take and pay for the meds, then I travel the world declaring I am disease free. I am not against big ag making money, but the rest of us are forced to be part of that scheme and get none of the profits, just the onerous responsibilites of making is seem like big ag has safe beef. see nonais.org for more info.

I did try checking out their hardware specs, but everything seems to be in PDF files that I don’t want to trawl through. Anyone know off-hand?

“Improvised Electronic Device”.. what a bullshit term anyway.

My guess is that this is either LF only, HF only or maybe LF / HF, but almost certainly isn’t UHF:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rfid#Antenna_types

To do what they claim, their device needs to be a full-fledged tag reader, otherwise it couldn’t clone the tags. This isn’t too hard with LF/HF tags because they’re slow and use very simple anti-collision protocols (if any), but it is very hard with UHF tags. It’s especially hard if you’re trying to run off a battery.

RFID tags used in animal tracking, key fobs, etc. tend to be LF/HF tags, so this device could work with them. Inventory tags (like the ones used in the Wal*Mart trials) are UHF and so I don’t think this device would even recognize them, let alone jam / clone / mimic them.