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Spy chips under discussion
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:01:09 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <amicus () well com> Date: October 3, 2004 1:54:10 AM EDT To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com Subject: RE: [johnmacsgroup] Spy chips under discussion Reply-To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com At 10:34 PM 10/2/2004, A Grudko wrote:
Spy chips will be perfectly copied by criminals and abused by over-enthusiastic political supporters/government officials.
RFID use in counterfeiting doesn't rely on the *chips* being uncopiable... they're trivially replicated. The idea here is that, via the unique ID in
the chip, you'd be able to ascertain the item's (claimed) pedigree, andfigure out if it was plausible that the item you had in your hand matched
the reported history. So, for example, you read the RFID (or, probably, human readable copy printed on the label) on a bottle of pills and query somebody/somebodies over the Internet, which would tell you that thatbottle was part of a shipment that was delivered to [your local retailer,
in your local town] within the last several days, etc. If you do thelookup and are told that the bottle was last seen yesterday in Ouagadougou, Paris, or Chengdu, or sold to an end consumer last week, you start to get
suspicious. I'm actually quite skeptical that this is going to work (and will bewriting on that and other item-level tagging issues for a piece to run in
one of the RFID mags); if it *does* work, yes, it'll be a fantasy playground for privacy violators too. Ross ----- Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D., CISSP Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc. http://www.stapleton-gray.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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