Re: "if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

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*]

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