Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for beefed up RFID technology

Is there any room left in Canada? I could get used to the cold, maybe.

THIS IS SCARY STUFF!
 
A little aluminum foil can block any radio wave. So if you are worried about being RFID'd, just line your purse, wallet, pants, or shirt with aluminum foil. I'm guessing eventually, people will make clothes with impregnated copper or aluminum.

Radar detectors aren't illegal in all states, so I assume RFID detectors may be available too.

The beauty of America.... for everything the gov't does, there are people creating ways to circumvent.

One thing that will be really cool about RFID is.... imagine going to the grocery store and loading a cart with about $200 worth of food. Push the car through the checkout aisle and everything is totalled within one second. You won't even have time to read the National Enquirer as you wait in line.
 
Remember when they started implanting chips in dogs, high-dollar racehorses, and then children, to make locating and identyifying easier? Did they say anything about removing the children's implants? Will they stay until old age, and the government can track them at will? It gets scary when you ponder. . .
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LunchBox said:
what about magnets? I mean, realistically you could short out any microchip if you expose it to a large enough magnet right?
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It's an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that wipes out integrated circuits.
 
DirkW said:
It's an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that wipes out integrated circuits.
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On different scales, they are basically the same thing. Although a magnet has a very small frequency range that can't really affect anything...except maybe a cheap wrist watch or television set (ever put a magnet near a TV? ...not destructive, but will mess up your picture) A real "EMP", as in that which comes from a nuclear blast has a wide frequency range and can affect a wider range of devices (PC's, new cars w/ electronic ignition, etc.)...and has has a huge amount of power. Similar to a bolt of lighting which charges the air around it with a high voltage.

(As it turns out, my current project is testing a device until it fails. It finally failed with a radiated impulse field of 70 volts per meter at 400 MHz. The ac adapter went into shut down and couldn't restart until I stopped the field. Fun/ nerdy stuff !)

So, picture a satellite in space shooting this sort of EMP at your computer while it is orbiting in space. They can shut you down if they want.

Anyhow, back to RFID. The embedded RFID tags are passive electronic devices. Kinda like the security tags in CD's and other items at department stores. Since they are passive, you can't shut them down with an EMP. To read them, you have to transmit at them which excites the radio waves in a manner that the transmitting antenna can decode and read. Big Brother has the transmitter, so if you have an implant, you're out of luck. Maybe consider a full-body coat of gold paint?
 
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