ProxCards = Satan

Wired tends to be a little out on the fringe of tech news for me, but they have some interesting stories too. Aaron Shaffer blogs a Wired story about a pundit who thinks that RFID tags are (take your pick):

  • A major privacy problem insofar as the government could use your groceries to track your location -- presumably by having a CIA operative follow you around with a scanner at a distance of no more than 20 feet, until his/her cover was blown by Karl Rove.
  • The Mark of the Beast, identifying sinners, from the Biblical book of Revelation.

I think it's time for Case to come clean about the prox ID cards we were all forced to adopt a couple years ago. Clearly, getting me to carry the thing around in my wallet is a clever way to allow the government to track my movements and habits. Their obvious next step will be to brand the Fat Surfer Dude Logo into students' foreheads.

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