Electronic Frisking And The RFID Chipby John Longenecker
New handheld scanners of microscopic identification chips are making their debut.As you may have heard, RFID - radio frequency identification - is on the move for government, marketing and others.
Technically, these are passive devices which, themselves, use no energy, but which are energized by RF energy from a scanner and can gather and surrender up data on your movements, purchases, travels, and a host of other parameters. The chip dwells in nearly every product made.
One of the newest intrusions based on the next leg of this technology will be BPL Broadband Power Lines contemplated for a long time which is simply Internet connectivity via your house current outlets. Modems can become sensors for RFID Chips and voila! youre bugged, bruda, as the modem reads all the chips in your home!
And there are those others I mentioned: criminals who can buy a handheld scanner for less than about $5,000 or so.
With the debut of handheld scanners, criminals can snoop, more specifically, frisk innocent persons consumers who own an expensive watch, carry cash or who are in the habit of buying expensive clothes or other giveaway that makes them a possible, profitable target.
Chips are embedded in products we buy, including clothing, tires, you name it.
And that might include your Smith & Wesson .357 since the moment of sale!
Remember when cellular service was so very easily pirated by individuals simply scanning your cell phone as you passed beneath their freeway overpass? Small stuff.
Modern times: now those scanners can surveille, scan and identify products in your fannie pack, purse, wallet or briefcase with a simple pass of the chip embedded therein. Its better than X-ray vision: it looks through solid objects, but it itemizes what it sees for you!
At a distance!
Imagine wearing your piece under your coat, doing your best to observe the law in keeping your concealed weapon concealed and someone electronically frisks you and trouble breaks out.
At present, its not illegal to purchase a handheld scanner, and its not illegal to scan or frisk people.
But it can be disastrous for innocent persons due to official zeal, mistake or abuse.
Not to mention the expected abuse by criminals searching for cash, persons of habit or immense assets. Or a gun. A legal gun.
These people will not avoid CCW citizens, theyll target them for takeaway, multiple assailant, any stalking and striking game or other crime once they know whos carrying. Where not knowing whos armed is to the individuals advantage, its neutralized by this technology, and can set up innocent law-abiding persons for wrongful accusations or trouble.
But these criminals will know what everybodys carrying soon enough as RFID chips permeate every product we buy. With a simple pass, the bad guys will know whats in your purse.
And soon, theyll know whats in your home.
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/longenecker/*FW Note:So... in the near future, the JBTs won't have to take the time out of their busy day to trash your house searching for your guns, they'll be able to find them all by simply and convieniently "scanning" your residence
before they break down the door.
Wonderful.
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