Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

It's already been tried with RFID (tracking children "for their
safety") in California:

 http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/children.html

W.R.T. tracking via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. let's just say that
I presonally dislike Bluetooth because of the security implications,
and do not own a single piece of Bluetooth gear. ;-)

- ferg


-- Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com> wrote:

Good Day,

Friday, November 4, 2005, 12:43:24 AM, you wrote:

RMS> Looks like the MIT crowd came thru with a 24/7 people RF tracking network.

I can't wait until it becomes mandatory for everyone who doesn't want
to be suspected of "terrorism", of any kind. They'll probably first
sell it to us as a means of protecting our children...

-- 
Best regards,
 Pierre                            mailto:pierre () datarescue com


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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