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RFID

2005-05-06T00:57:39Z

Whenever you talk to people about radio frequency identification (fondly known as RFID), they always start by saying, "This is actually a really old technology." RFID was invented about three decades ago, but apparently its time has come.

RFID tech consists of two parts: a tag and a reader. The tag is a microchip with a teensy antenna on it that talks to the reader, which is a small device that takes whatever data the tag sends it and passes it along to a computer. If your RFID tag is in a piece of hospital equipment, for example, the reader might "talk" to it and tell a database, "The machine that goes ping is in room seven." Then any hospital staff who queried the database would know exactly where to get the machine that goes ping.

RFID isn't some kind of wacky technology of the future, either. You may actually already be using it in your car if you have one of those devices that sends out a signal and debits your bank account when you drive through a tollbooth. Cities like Boston, San Francisco, and New York are making their toll booths compatible with RFID systems like E-ZPass and FasTrack.

But the most promising applications for RFID systems are in retail. And this is what groups like the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are banking on. Like a handful of other research and development outfits, Auto-ID is hoping stores will adopt RFID as the ultimate inventory tool and a safeguard against theft. With readers on every shelf, you could know every time someone removed a box of Wheaties from aisle 10. Potentially, every object in a store could have its own RFID the same way they all have bar codes now. But unlike bar codes, RFIDs can be read at a distance, and each tag has a unique identifier.

For privacy advocates, the idea of having a unique identifier on everything they buy is a nightmare. If RFID readers become ubiquitous – which RFID manufacturers bet they will – it could mean that every time you pass by a reader, it could "talk" to your sweater and shoes. Match up credit card records with your sweater's ID and presto: It's a system for monitoring your every move.

Harvard psychology graduate student Katherine Albrecht has formed a group, Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, that's devoted to fighting companies that want to put RFID tags in their products. Her most recent target was Benetton, the Italian clothing manufacturer, whose executives announced they would be putting the tags in their merchandise. After threatening a "Boycott Benetton" campaign, CASPIAN supporters were elated to hear the company had withdrawn its promise to use RFID – at least for now. Meanwhile, Prada already uses RFID for merchandise in its SoHo store in New York.

The question is, are RFIDs all nastiness with no killer app? Simson Garfinkel, a computer security expert and consultant with Auto-ID, says the technology will serve a useful purpose. He argues that the chips can be programmed with "kill code," or a single command to die. Sanjay Sarma, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of Auto-ID, suggests stores might send RFID tags these kill codes at the point of purchase so that the devices would not be used for tracking. Garfinkel adds that one could be even more clever and just kill the RFID's unique identifier. Keeping other identifiers in the chip, such as what the item is, could be useful for people who are blind and want to use a reader to identify medicines in their cabinet. RFID tags could also aid robots in sorting recycled materials, or people who want to ping their refrigerators to find out if they need to pick up some milk.

Both Garfinkel and Sarma are quick to point out that Auto-ID has a committee of advisors who are researching the potential abuses of RFID, as well as exploring ways of getting the industry to deploy it in a manner that preserves privacy rights. Sarma recently published a paper in which he and his coauthors painstakingly detail all of the ways RFID could lead to privacy and security violations.

Of course, not all RFID developers may be quite as concerned with civil liberties as the researchers at Auto-ID are. Intermec, the company whose IntelliTag RFID system was slated for Benetton shirts everywhere, makes no mention of privacy concerns in any of its four white papers on RFID and related technologies.

"There's a huge privacy issue that's being ignored here," Garfinkel concludes. "And that's the RFIDs in [cars that use] E-ZPass. Those can already be used to track your movements everywhere." In fact, transit authorities in several cities use E-ZPass tags as a way to measure traffic flow. In other words, people are reading the RFID in your car without your knowledge. I'm just worried flashy campaigns like CASPIAN's proto-Benetton boycott will distract us from the real issue: RFID is out there now. The cat is out of the bag. When are we going to start regulating it?

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Lexis Nexus

2005-05-06T00:54:51Z

Perhaps you weren't aware of my deep personal connection to Adrian Lamo, the so-called homeless hacker recently charged with two counts of illegally accessing the New York Times' computer systems. Yes, it's true. He and I may not be acquainted, but we share the same dream.

We both believe in truth and justice and all that crap. But that's not what I'm talking about. More important, Lamo and I have both dreamed of stealing information from the Lexis/Nexis database. But only Lamo had the hacker know-how to pull it off. I wasn't able to get in on any of the action when he did it, which is unfortunate because I have a lot of things I want from Lexis/Nexis.

The Lexis/Nexis database, you see, is an information gold mine. Owned by semi-evil über-corporation Reed Elsevier, it contains the full text of articles from hundreds of newspapers, magazines, legal documents, and public records. And here's the beauty part: It's all full-text searchable. You can look for mentions of a particular movie in articles published between 1991 and 1992. Or figure out how many times reporters used the word cheesy to describe the latest installment in the Star Wars cycle. You can search through zillions of legal decisions and deeds to properties. For media nerds like me, it's a candy box.

But it's fucking expensive. Not sort-of-annoying expensive, like a new DVD. I'm talking $75 a week just to search newspapers. If you wanted to search every part of the Lexis/Nexis database, it could run you $600 a week. Free weekly papers and independent Web publications can't afford to buy accounts for their reporters, and certainly the reporters can't afford to buy them on their own.

At most alternative media outlets where I've worked, there has always been some person who had a Lexis/Nexis password that he or she'd kept from a previous job at a Condé Nast publication or something like that. This person is like the loadie who's holding all the whippets at a party. A crowd groups around him or her, hands out, begging for just one more turn with the balloon. The bearer of the Lexis/Nexis dispenser can choose whom to grace with a search that day. Information junkies grovel at his or her feet, muttering phrases like "box-office statistics from 1992" and "Gavin Newsom's property holdings from 1995" and "RIAA lawsuits filed over the last month."

Of course, a posh place like the New York Times has a corporate subscription. And Lamo, fighting for the little guy as always, figured that he'd liberate some information while he was breaking into the Times' computer network. He was striking a blow for data serfs everywhere. OK, he didn't actually tell me that. But that's how I felt when I heard he'd stolen five Lexis/Nexis passwords from the newspaper.

Unfortunately, Lamo used them to run searches on himself, his friends, and his family. That was lame (pardon the obvious pun). He should have sent those passwords to me.

If he had, I'd be getting notices from the feds like a whole bunch of other journalists are right now. Apparently, the main "evidence" the federal government has used to charge Lamo came from journalists' accounts of his exploits in published articles. So they're sending notices to journalists who wrote about Lamo telling them to save all their notes in anticipation of a subpoena for them. The feds are standing on pretty shaky legal ground here: There are countless laws protecting journalists from warrants for their notes.

Plus, the law they're invoking to get these subpoenas comes from a section in the USA PATRIOT Act that's only supposed to be used for getting information from "providers of electronic communications services" like ISPs. As Mark Rasch asked in a recent column in SecurityFocus.com, are online journalists now in the same class as Internet-access providers and phone companies? Maybe my readers should be paying me monthly utility fees.

Adding insult to injury, the Times is claiming that Lamo's use of the Lexis/Nexis passwords cost them more than $300,000 in "damages." The service is expensive, yeah, but give me a break. You're talking mondo searches over a period of years to rack up a bill like that. I mean, I have elaborate masturbatory fantasies about running massive Lexis/Nexis searches, and even I cannot come up with the supermega orgasma-search that would merit such a ridiculous number. Maybe I should dream harder.

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ID BARCODES!!! NEW!!!

2004-03-07T21:35:40Z

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Updated

2004-02-09T22:16:32Z

Monday Feb 9th photo album updated.

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No One Cares...

2004-01-17T20:31:40Z

Give us real info you looser!

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UPDATED!

2004-01-15T18:55:35Z

Album collection had a massive update that I think everyone should check out.

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Lagging on Updates,

2004-01-14T19:09:16Z

I am sorry I have been slow to update the photo gallery. It is a slow tedious process photoshop editing over 300 images to a happy jpg file. I will be trying to hurry myself soon... maybe.
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New Photo Additions TRI-MET

2003-12-04T04:21:08Z

Trimet October and November Bus Passes are NOW in the Photo Gallery! Yo!
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California Magnetic Stripes on IDs

2003-11-24T10:16:57Z

Rubbing a magnet won't erase your magstripe on a california ID you need to literally scrape the fucker off as they have a cohesive rating 30,000 times greater than a credit card magstripe according to what I have read on it.
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"just working on content yo"

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B string is tribe happy

2003-11-23T01:20:19Z

muthafucka has more tribes then africa

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Hologram Creation

2003-11-22T04:22:22Z

I have found an easy way to make decent looking holograms is to purchase a reflective foil paper from a company called paper-direct and then print your holograms image using the foil overlay paper on a plain transparency sheet and then laminate over. The foil adheres to the transparency paper when you use a laserprinter to print out your image and when you look at it after whatever has been laminated it looks like a pretty good hologram. I can explain this further if anyone wants specifics.
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Hello Friends!

2003-11-21T21:08:18Z

Hopefully this tribe will have enough content for everyone as I have over 197 ID templates to upload and sofar have only gotten 26 uploaded. And please people lets try to stay out of trouble, yet lets have lots of fun causing trouble.
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