Thread: RFID AND NATIONAL ID AS ELECTRONIC STALKING

RFID AND NATIONAL ID AS ELECTRONIC STALKING
PART 1


By John Longenecker
November 21, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Part I: The Flea.

PRIVACY is an American Safeguard against mistake, abuse and retaliation. The Personal Data Portability removal of this safeguard – for any reason – opens the door to a whole family of predatory cottage industries. The cost is not in how to pay for these, the cost is in the loss of privacy first.

Though the reasons may sound good at first — fighting crime, violence and even terrorism — the removal of the protection of Privacy as a safeguard of our way of life will usher in unstoppable predatory industries promising to rectify problems, furnish solutions and even guide Americans into newer monstrosities of electronic surveillance.

With Political Correctness already having its own boot on the throat of American thought, intrusion of electronic surveillance will not only keep open files on what you buy and how much you have, but it will soon presume to dictate what you must become.

For health, safety of yourself and others, knowledge of your behavior and habits will soon come to dictate how you must change, and that means morphing you into what you must be. For your own good and for the good of society, you will be compelled to change.

RFID Chips — one of two leading means of electronic surveillance — promise dreams of convenience, but they will deliver nightmares of conformity. The PC influence can already force parents into unwelcome injections for their children, or go to jail for ten days. Too much milkfat or animal fat in your diet will soon be known, and the insurance underwriters will soon be able to know – not guess, but know – your consumption, and it is they who will cite the figures on heart disease and animal fat and how much is good or bad for you, not you.

Let’s take a look at one of the earliest applications as I recall it from the seventies when I first heard about portable data embedded in a chip which is to be embedded in people — the medical records data to accompany the patient wherever he or she goes.

The Flea – the tiny thing you really don’t want on you – was originally touted in the middle seventies for keeping medical records with the patient at all times, specifically on their person, indwelling. In the seventies and before, the MedicAlert Tag was more than sufficient in furnishing vital information to doctors, volunteers and others. This was before EMS was even called EMS.

The newer concept was that, with the arrival of greater technology, longer history and more complex treatments and medicines, there was — supposedly – the greater complexity of records to keep, and the need for the right platform to disgorge it all to the practitioner who would see the patient in time of emergency.

But this is not how emergency treatment works. Then or now.

Much of emergency medical care is commonly without a complete medical history. It is... well, emergency. Much of emergency treatment is supportive, life-saving, and generally straightforward from patient to patient. Airway, breathing, circulation, whether shortness of breath is from heart attack, choking, bee sting, electric shock or even myasthenia gravis in the field, it’s all the same. First things first.

Paramedics in the field are trained to assess the patient in 90-seconds. In that time, the nature and degree of the emergency is understood and life-saving treatment has begun in Advanced Life Support. That’s pretty damned fast. Any other medical professional in the same situation as Paramedics operate in their world would not delay his or her assessment and treatment of an emergency patient for want of further information. There would be no wait-and-see delay, as the insistence on a portable, embedded medical history suggests.

Furthermore, what a professional needs to know at the most urgent moments is not contained in a chip, but in the physical exam and presentation of the patient. Signs, symptoms and findings of what is happening at the present are generally much more important than a miniature past embedded somewhere in the patient’s muscle.

Once the door is opened for portable medical history data — as unimportant as it is — others will push it open for all sorts of applications for the portability of other personal data — data which is a lot less urgent than medical data, but certainly more useful to predators. RFID rings the dinner bell for predators. Those predators are worldwide.

And this is where the second problem emerges. Supposing that our sovereignty is in fact dead and we cannot stop the Flea from jumping on us – first problem — the second problem is identity theft, or theft of all portable information.

Remember that once the Flea is embedded in you, you can’t get rid of it. Even if you can precisely locate the thing, it’s harder to remove than a tattoo.

One may not have anything to hide per se, but everyone has something to protect.


Privacy, not Piracy

Some of us remember cell phone piracy of the nineties, and we remember the assurances officials gave. Pirates would stand over freeways and scan passing cars below to capture their cellular codes electronically. Within minutes, they could make calls billed to Joe and Josephine Caller. Only when millions of customers began denying they made all those phone calls did the industry catch on. Meanwhile, officials denied that it was possible. It was more than possible — it was done and gone. As with most such theft, most of the predators are not found.

Today, with handheld technology available to read RFID chips at a distance, no rational person can assure Americans that their personal data will not be stolen and abused. With today’s technology, a person with an RFID Chip containing any information at all could find their data stolen, and not ever know where, when nor by whom. Never. It’s as fast as a snapshot and just as anonymous.

The genius or the horror of human implanted RFID Chips is that they can be read at a distance and through solid objects. Alright, we know this. But did you know how easy it is for a predator to pick up a few parts and steal your portable data from even greater distances than the manufacturer's parameters?

It’s not a question of encoding your chip for protection – codes are universal to some extent or the chips themselves are useless in any industry, or incompatible with various scanners. Besides, your installer may not have preferred the more expensive options of encoding, no matter what he says. It’s easier to say they did than to do it, just like it’s easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.

Once your personal, portable data is captured, it’s in the wind, and you’re toast. The technology makes it possible to pick up a few parts, make up a yagi antenna and you’re in business. Now, the useful range of the RFID Chip – about 30 feet – is extended by a sensitive lurking antenna and circuit to 300 feet or more. That can put it on a freeway overpass, outside a restaurant, or even your home.

The patent for human implantation of the RFID Chip was granted in 1973, with plenty of time to dream up many applications since then. Sounded good, but two things prevented it: privacy concerns and miniaturization technology. Now, the Flea is tiny enough to be lost among several grains of pepper on the tip of your finger, and privacy concerns can go to Hades.

But this is only the beginning. This is not your father’s reading your portable data for one medical emergency application, it is shared for many applications. It is placed on shared databases, and it is to be shared worldwide. Airports, retailers, public buildings, foreign stations are gearing up to read RFID Chips as visitors, patrons and members pass through their doors hourly.


Shared databases mean your data is shared worldwide.

As with all looting in this country, Liberty and Sovereignty must be pushed aside somehow, because they are the last bulwark against that kind of predatory industries — looting. These industries depend heavily on adversity for their customer base and very survival. Whole industries large and small tend to sprout up not only to furnish the Flea, but to manage the problems anticipated and unanticipated in an enchanting transfer of wealth. All in the name of fighting crime, or some other purported necessity. Pick one.


If you like the credit reporting bureaus and the cottage industries who promise to clean up the errors, you’ll love RFID and all other surveillances and what they charge. But the cost to America is not in the repair bills for errors – it’s in the loss of sovereignty that paves the way for the Flea to begin with.

In Part II, we’ll elaborate even greater potential for abuse (as if this wasn’t enough?) defiance of citizen authority, and what defiance and electronic surveillance mean to the American of tomorrow — your children and their children after parents have had the chip as the norm for a generation.



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RFID AND NATIONAL ID AS ELECTRONIC STALKING
PART 2

By John Longenecker
November 28, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Tracking Americans Worldwide

The Right To Bare Arms means no RFID in the body. Virgin. Untouched. Unmolested.

With any sort of requirement to even eventually and for whatever reason take the RFID Chip implant, the officials pushing it makes them the New Bureau Of Engraving.

I had written years ago that when I was a Paramedic in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles in 1977, I had seen and treated many Jews who had Nazi Numbers on their arms. You know what those were for.

The RFID Chip is for that same purpose. Order.

You can call it fighting crime, you can call it tracking and you can call it Order, but it’s all the same: Control. And Control by knowing things about you is the foe of Liberty, because it subjects innocent everyday behavior to scrutiny, and this leads to mistake, abuse and retaliation.

When I say that tiny RFID Chips can track Americans worldwide, I am speaking of the shared databases we described in Part I. For years, I’ve been calling it the Flea — the tiny thing you don’t want on you. Let’s look closer.

Shared databases are already operating in fingerprinting, insurance coverage, point of sale, automobile records, medical records, sales leads for sales weasels, marketing tracking of both merchandise and customer habits, diesel parts, tires, grooming supplies, and much, much more. Enter Internet search term Keyword RFID and you pull up a host of news items. Take it a step further: Google for yourself your own tracking: Google Alert term RFID and you can begin to follow RFID newsbreaks as they happen by opting-in for e-mail notification of the latest. You may get ten a day. When one begins to view the enormity of the applications, delight of new technology turns to apprehension and suspicion. JMO, of course. .

As more and more agencies adopt RFID readers, more and more databases want to join, and many have made a good case for taking a peek at the data of what you buy, eat, read and watch. The fact is, that you are now watched, or soon will be.

As these are embedded in consumables, they are read wherever you take your consumables. This establishes the technology of worldwide reading of RFID Chips for a seemingly harmless tracking model: marketing. It also makes you trackable wherever you go by what you carry. (What’s in your wallet?)

And, naturally, if it’s proven in marketing, it will be of interest in law enforcement. The brunt of the cost will have been absorbed by business in pioneering the concept of following a single item anywhere in the world, and with such an infrastructure in place by then, law enforcement tracking is no longer three steps away, but one step away. The privacy defense will no longer be a voice, but a whimper by then, outweighed – bullied – by so-called necessity for a new crime fighting tool, and technical wonder for its ease of operation.

No wonder crime is permitted to continue: it paves the way for new technologic intrusions, equipment sales and the staff to man them.

Now, to the future Americans to be tracked, the children, as promised.

As I mentioned, Liberty, Sovereignty and Privacy need to be pushed aside for the industry of Personal Data Portability, otherwise known as Tracking. The customer’s view is convenience, while the marketer’s view is watching. What they do with the information they obtain morphs into wider and wider applications, inspired by more and more successful experiments – some technological triumphs, others societal triumphs, as in overcoming Privacy objections — all of which then translate into deeper and deeper intrusions.

But intrusion isn’t harmless, because such personal information can so easily be misinterpreted. Such personal data can so easily be subjective and abused. What they interpret can be pivotal in how you parent your children, and sooner than you think.

As RFID is embedded in more and more items, a greater acceptance and acceptability occurs, and over time, tracking becomes the norm. What we establish and accept today will become the norm for our kids, and will proceed from there. As with our U.S. History, what is erased or forgotten is what might have added powerful enough perspective to protect the nation on the issue, so acceptance today is essential to the control of tomorrow. Refusal today is critical to the safety and freedom of our kids tomorrow.

Erasing the baseline for perspective is to disarm the children of tomorrow in their protest against control when it comes time for them to grapple with the problem -- long after we’re gone. Order. Irrespective of what we teach them today, our actions of acceptance will speak louder, and do much of the advance work of control — no.. more like surrender – to and for the industries which will thrive on adversity, war, terrorism and crime. And the need for....Order.

Now look at this: Who uses the Internet a lot in 2008? The kids. Who likes to buy all kinds of junk at the Mall? The kids. Where are RFID chips being placed? In all sorts of items, from those diesel parts to wet shaving razors . . . and RFID is placed in tons of stuff for... shall we say.. marketing purposes.

And who furnishes a free modem with new or upgraded service? ISP’s do. When was the last time you paid for a modem?

As the discussion has been posted on the world wide web [don’t forget to Google Alert the term RFID] modems are being geared for RFID readers for so-called marketing research in items brought home. This is not a new concept, not new at all. Haven’t you noticed the contactless ‘swipe’ or ‘pass’ feature on the terminal when you buy something? Internet. Various software already manages what they are calling Global RFID Networks already in place.

It’s no great leap to RFID readers in the home computer’s modem.

And here’s another frightening aspect of the nightmare: not only will chips of the near future be readable and tiny, they will also be writeable and re-writeable, just like the mag stripe on your membership card is. The mag stripe is just a piece of recording tape souped up for high print-through and durability. But make no mistake, when it is read at the supermarket, it is re-writing the stripe and updating it. How’s that for taking a swipe at Americans?

They’re not likely to leave this feature out of Portable Personal Data chips.

Every day the industry makes advances toward personal implantation, it’s an appraisal of our current Sovereignty.

In Part III, we can ask the denizens of the industry why they don’t take their own Chip and more.
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RFID AND NATIONAL ID AS ELECTRONIC STALKING
PART 3

By John Longenecker
December 4, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Supervision As An Industrial Complex

Supervision of American Citizens is one of the most resentful and unwelcome concepts of high technology. It serves no purpose but to harass in the name of Order while writing paychecks for the industries thriving on Hate, Violence, and Terrorism.

In Parts I and II, we elaborated on some of the plans and potential for the RFID Chip I affectionately refer to as the Flea — the tiny thing you don’t want on you. In our final installment, let’s take a look at one final detail and at the National ID Card as an unwelcome brother in a whole family of electronic surveillance.

As I pointed out, it’s no great leap to RFID readers in the home computer’s modem. In a White Paper published by SUN, the industry’s vision IMO is quite clear in the first lines of the Paper’s Introduction. Publishing the Paper on the web permits selected excerpts under Fair Use.

"The vision for Electronic Product Code [EPC] technology is to enable a global business network that tracks products across the entire supplier-to-consumer chain, helping businesses improve their asset visibility. The network will allow companies to automatically monitor items anywhere throughout the supply chain in real time, and share information with trading partners."

‘Trading Partners’ is technospeak for datasharing. ‘Asset Visibility’ means location is known. ‘Real Time’ is technospeak for tracking the medication in... well, real time, and that requires monitoring real time. And ‘global’ means what it means: Global.

Security issues in most of this type of release speak to assuring consumers, but the way the industry defines the concept is in securing identity data from thieves. The industry forgets that citizens resent even sharing with so-called Trading Partners as a prelude to subsequent accidents, an unacceptable degree of negligence, and a very early-on hostility to privacy concerns which object to the very concept.

Further, the next lines confirm suspicions of constituents who have their own vision of nightmares instead of benefits:

"The deployment of an EPC Internet-scale network is no small task— IDC estimates that by 2012, there will be one trillion tags and sensors worldwide. By way of comparison, IDC estimates there will be approximately 17 billion traditional network devices in the same time."

This is two different kinds of device at work, one numbering about one trillion ‘tags’, and older generation ‘traditional’ network devices numbering about 17 billion to read RFID.

This technospeak is, of course, not referring to an entity or inevitable trend external to the industry, but outlines the goal which is purely of the industry: a Plan to sell product and service.

The White Paper was published in 2004. It can be viewed on the world wide web.

What’s important is the finding that advocates of the RFID Chip won’t take the damned thing. At last report, some 200 persons have taken a chip, but this is nothing. Does the Board Of Directors of any company take their own chip?

In order to have confidence in the product, the Board has to be official food taster of the thing. I would expect the following in order to give meaning to any endorsement of the Flea.

1. It must be embedded in all Board Members throughout the industry. And now, otherwise, any future taking of the chip is meaningless, and it therefore lacks a vote of confidence. Boardmembers must use actual medicines embedded with their chip, if they are taking prescribed medicine. Many people do. They may not care what critics think, but without personally involved affirmation, all RFID human implantation plans and technology must stop for lack of good faith.

2. Their personal RFID Chip must contain current and vital personal information on that individual just as consumer’s will. It must be comparable to what one expects to put into chips for the general public, soldiers, employees, patients, suspects, and any and all future plans.

3. It must be a modern contemporary chip, such as those which are re-writable, not merely readable, and not obsolete chips. No substitutions.

4. It must be verifiable not by a neutral party, but by the opposing interests, and at a time and place of his/her choosing. Repeated, unannounced inspections are a must. Trust, but verify.

Put another way, if it’s such a great idea, you go first.

The National ID Card is pretty much the same theory of operation, claiming to fight crime and terrorism by the identification of all persons. Or else.

Order.

But officials forget that they do not give orders, they take orders, and irrespective of what they might feel, believe or know, and irrespective of who fills their war chests, they still take orders from constituents. The problem, of course, is that too many Americans are not even registered to vote.

Still, many state legislatures understand this intrusion and the nightmares likely to follow, and are resisting the National ID Card, and you know something? In resisting on behalf of constituents, they, like their constituents, do not need to show cause. Legislators, like their constituents, do not have to furnish exhibits, bring data nor even so much as give a reason for refusing the National ID Card. Is this a great country, or what? Courage, to each and every one of you. And thank you for your service.

This is why the refusal of the RFID Chip and of the National ID Card is a test of our Sovereignty. More, it is a statement of our Sovereignty. Refusal is an assertion of it.

It is time to make the connection between the rise of violent crime and the industrial complexes which thrive and benefit from that anti-social dynamic.

Let’s face it: most Americans are more than not guilty of things – most Americans are Innocent, and do not deserve to be supervised, much less politically or legally so. Americans do not wish to be explaining to employers, insurers, colleagues, sadistic watchdog activists and other indifferent but powerful groups of Komrades why they should not be fired, canceled, on a watch list or on a no-fly list. That’s a lot of unreturned money paid in, a lot of unpaid interest, and a lot of paychecks that should never be, because that kind of supervision must never be, and supervision is becoming a horrible, predatory industrial complex.

There is no law against the Flea at this time, there's no regulation, no protections for the adult taxpayer or child, but there are dozens and dozens of applications found through dozens and dozens of Plans.

The RFID Chip and National ID Card must pass into history and oblivion as respectfully declined, a footnote in History.

The problem is not in inconvenience or slight inaccuracy, but intrusion in how folks are to be Supervised at all against protest.

And the serious mistakes that will come with it. The heavy-handed inquiries.

And the commerce in charging to rectify those mistakes...

And the adjustments you’ll have to make when they can’t change anything after all.

And what our children will have to put up with because we put up with it for a generation.

Crime to others affects you, and now violence, hate and terrorism are the perfect excuse to usher in all sorts of Supervision. For Order. Where sovereign refusal today secures the safety of tomorrow, affirming that Americans do not need supervision for safety of the nation is good for the country.
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Revelation 13:16-17

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.