Re[2]: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT

[Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>]

Good Afternoon,

Friday, November 4, 2005, 7:16:24 AM, you wrote:

VKve> On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:23:18 GMT, Fergie said:
> > It's already been tried with RFID (tracking children "for their
> > safety") in California:
> >
> >  http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/children.html

VKve> I don't remember many people picking up on the most obvious problems:

That's because they are probably quite easily solvable.

VKve> 1) Visiting miscreants are invisible because they aren't rfid-tagged.

Could probably be addressed by something like "if presence is detected
and no RFID response is received then sound alarm"

VKve> 2) The RFID doesn't tell you that Suzy is in class. It tells you that Suzy's ID
VKve> card is in class.  In reality, Suzy asked Jamie to carry the card while Suzy
VKve> popped out for a smoke in the girl's bathroom.....

Or worse. That one is solved already

http://www.adsx.com/content/pdf/pr/pr_44.pdf


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