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Re: "if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"
From: coderman <coderman () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:01:17 -0800
On 2/21/06, Gary Funck <gary () intrepid com> wrote:
... The transmitters are tiny (about the size of a grain of rice), cheap (£85 and falling fast), safe and stable.
and easily scanned from a distance and copied. (note they did not mention secure and encased in tamper resistant/evident structures)
The armed forces will discover that they are more useful than dog tags for identifying injured soldiers or for tracking troops who are lost or have been captured by the enemy. Prisons will soon come to the same conclusion. Then sweatshops in developing countries will begin to catch on. Already the overseers seek to control their workers to the second; determining when they clock on, when they visit the toilet, even the number of hand movements they perform. A chip makes all this easier. The workers will not be forced to have them, any more than they are forced to have sex with their bosses; but if they don't accept the conditions, they don't get the job.
i've refused a number of jobs based on pre-employment piss scans and intolerable IP ownership requirements. how much is exercising your freedom worth to you? $1.05 or so?
[...] There will be no dramatic developments. We will not step out of our homes one morning to discover that the state, or our boss, or our insurance company, knows everything about us. But, if the muted response to the ID card is anything to go by, we will gradually submit, in the name of our own protection, to the demands of the machine. And it will not then require a tyrannical new government to deprive us of our freedom. Step by voluntary step, we will have given it up already.
this is what really concerns me; alas, complacency is pandemic at the moment... [i also don't use cell phones, pagers, membership cards for grocery stores or any other chain, credit cards, etc. i'm a freak, a freak! in this modern world. *sigh*] _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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