funsec mailing list archives
Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:16:24 -0500
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
I don't remember many people picking up on the most obvious problems: 1) Visiting miscreants are invisible because they aren't rfid-tagged. 2) The RFID doesn't tell you that Suzy is in class. It tells you that Suzy's ID card is in class. In reality, Suzy asked Jamie to carry the card while Suzy popped out for a smoke in the girl's bathroom.....
Attachment:
_bin
Description:
_______________________________________________ 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.
Current thread:
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT, (continued)
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Paul Vixie (Nov 03)
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Gadi Evron (Nov 03)
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Steve Kalman (Nov 04)
- RE: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place atMIT Richard M. Smith (Nov 04)
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place atMIT Tom Van Vleck (Nov 04)
- RE: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place atMIT Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Nov 04)
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Roland Dobbins (Nov 04)
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Paul Vixie (Nov 03)
- More info on WiFi tracking Richard M. Smith (Nov 04)
- Re: More info on WiFi tracking Florian Weimer (Nov 05)
- Re: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 03)
- Re[2]: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Pierre Vandevenne (Nov 04)
- Re: Re[2]: A campus-wide 24/7 WiFi tracking network now in place at MIT Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 04)