Surveillance Society and the RFID Menace

While looking into whether or not there are any tires left that do not have RFID tags, I found this little gem. The far-reaching ramifications are astounding and horrifying. Below is just the abstract of the patent application:

USPTO Application #: 20060180647
Title: Rfid applications
Abstract: Applications of RFID technology include: RFID Tags on Automobiles in Parking Garages; RFID w/Toothbrushes; RFID Tags For Laundry Settings; RFID Tags Or Labels to Find a Mate; RFID To Identify The Value Of Coins; RFID Tags In The Doctors Office; RFID Tags Or Labels In Game Arcades; RFID With Prisoners; RFID Tags To Identify Soldiers; RFID Labels As Tags To Label Particular Components Of Aircraft or Other Structures; Car, Snowmobile, Boat, Etc. Ignition That Won't Start Without RFID Card; Car seats with RFID reader and memory; Air bags that adjust based on information on RFID; Car that keeps track of GPS info and knows whos driving based on RFID; RFID Smart Closet; Method of taking attendance; RFID on networked desks to monitor the location of individuals; Personal computer reads RFID to log you in and take you to favorite web page, load favorites list, etc.; RFID labels on Files; RFID address label versions of all label and sheet inventions; RFID sports tickets; Combination function invitation and RFID chip to allow admittance; Roll of tape with RFID built in; Schoolbus reads which kids getting on, keeps record; RFID on each car wheel; RFID key to operate common-area laundry; RFID to automatically adjust weights/treadmill settings in gym; RFID w/clothes measurements, save shelf space at store, get proper size; RFID keyring w/car information; Keep track of who's driving around neighborhood; RFID dental implant; RFID Thumbtack; RFID Doorstop; RFID identification of boats or ships at docks; RFID on cups w/specifics of favorite coffee drinks; RFID on bridges with RFID tanks on top of cars, to detect speeding; RFID on studs in a wall and RFID reader that acts as a stud finder; RFID tags or labels inside tires; RFID cards supplied with newspapers or magazines; RFID card that lights up a when the user reaches a particular location; RFID sports ticket w/automatic map generation to seat; RFID card to tell school cafeteria what lunch to prepare for particular student; student desk with slot to receive RFID card, desks on networks together, Central computing system can tell where any particular student is sitting at any given moment within the school; RFID readers on outdoor play equipment; Authentication of Expensive Items With RFID; Paintings or other art work with RFID label to be used to verify the number in a limited series; RFID on sports helmet or uniform; RFID chips in paint; RFID cards issued to airline passengers to identify type of drinks and meals for a particular passenger, etc.; Greeting Cards With RFID; Decorative Tiles With RFID Tags; RFID in Car Washes; and Adaptive Advertising Based on RFID Information. (end of abstract)
Agent: Scott R. Hansen - Irvine, CA, US
Inventor: Scott Robert Hansen
USPTO Applicaton #: 20060180647 - Class: 235375000 (USPTO)
Related Patent Categories: Registers, Systems Controlled By Data Bearing Records
The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060180647.

According to high-level managers and CEOs

Organizers of the EPCglobal conference noted that RFID is already pervasive in some industries, including the automotive industry, where many cars and most tires have RFID chips, said Mike Meranda, president of EPCglobal U.S. The retail and pharmaceutical industries are good fits for RFID as well, he said, because both industries want to keep close tabs on their products moving through the supply chain.

It immediately strikes me that a) there are no tires that are manufactured without RFID, and b) we are surrounded with RFID tags and readers. It's really just a quick jump to install reader devices along exits on the highways (soon to become toll roads) to track our movements. And with our new, spiffy National ID (with accompanying RFID tag installed), we'll be tracked that way, too.

Heck, they plan to keep track of "who's driving around the neighborhood" and even put one in my dental implant!

And, according to the rather sterilized and bland description on About.com,

Currently RFID tags are somewhat expensive - as much as 60 cents each, too much to justify widespread use. That cost is expected to drop dramatically, however - perhaps to fractions of a cent once mass production really takes off. This will allow manufacturers to place tags in everything they make even as it is created. Everything that is made will then be capable of being tracked and monitored.

What this means is that pretty soon, you will walk into a store to buy RFID-tagged chicken with RFID-cash while wearing your RFID-tagged jeans. You will then travel in a car with RFID-tagged tires to a picnic with an RFID-tagged grill and eat potato salad made with RFID-tagged vegetables. The government will know every step of your movement - and so will anyone else with an RFID scanner and an interest in what you do with your day.

Lest you think this is just a paranoid delusion, consider what former Federal Reserve Board member and current vice president and general manager of Texas Instruments’ RFID business Julie England has to say about the "internet of things" in an interview for the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas, Texas :

Q: What future applications do you feel have significant possibilities?

A: Once you identify an item, you want to know more about it. We’re convinced that RFID plus sensors for temperature, pressure, time and even location will be the next big thing in little things. Right now, the most broadly used application involving sensors is measuring pressure in tires.

RFID combined with sensors often requires a tag that’s active or semipassive, which means batteries are present. Those applications are going to be slightly more expensive than a passive tag on a box or pallet. When active, RFID tags can relay in real time the pertinent information to a central database, and the benefit for companies is access to that data.

Another combination we’re seeing is RFID plus biometrics, which involves measurements of the human body. That’s already happening in electronic passports in countries outside the U.S.

We need to think about an Internet of things. Just like we’re all connected with our handy cell phones and BlackBerrys, ultimately we’re going to be able to connect things. That’s got a lot of appeal for significant breakthroughs in how companies do business and how they reduce costs.

A big idea being kicked around in the industry is near-field communications, which combines cell phones with the electronic payment systems the credit card companies are now rolling out. If we put that same chip and antenna in the cell phone, the phone becomes an electronic payment device. It’s already being done in Japan. It’s being discussed in the U.S. and Europe.

Q: What’s the holdup in the U.S.?

A: There are two main barriers to adoption. One is working out the business model between the credit card issuer, the telecom operator and the handset maker. The second is deciding who owns the customer when there’s a service issue on a payment application. Is it the telecom operator who owns the wireless network? Or is it the credit card company?

Um, excuse me... "who OWNS the customer"??? Oh, that's right, she's on the Federal Reserve Board. I forgot, silly me! Masters of the universe and all.
What was I thinking?

New ID Card Tracking? You’re Already A Beacon

New ID Card Tracking? You're Already A Beacon

Ted Twietmeyer / February 2, 2007

Much has been uttered and printed regarding the new national ID card, coming soon to a pocket near you. Many are upset by this little gem of technology, fearing big brother and Orwell's ideas. But is it the first way they will have to personally track you? First, let's take a look at the essential factor for spying-at-a-distance without optics: Radio frequencies. To begin with, it is generally accepted that frequencies of 50 Megahertz (MHz) and higher will travel from Earth's surface, through the ionosphere and into space. 50 Megahertz is actually the start of the VHF television band, channel 2 in the United States and Canada.

A former member of the intelligence community went public on a television documentary about the first Gulf War in Iraq, in 1991. When Saddam purchased all new printers and computers for his military installations everywhere, a special chip was provided to the printer manufacturer by an American Intelligence agency. It did everything the normal chip in the circuit did to make the printer work, plus one additional function. The chip acted like a beacon when pinged by a satellite signal, enabling American forces to drop a bomb on every single military installation. And that was 16 years ago! Now imagine how advanced things are now. The rule of thumb has been the military advances 44 years, for every year of civilian technology. That's right - high density, high pin count microchips date back to the 1960s. That's when THEY had them. Everyone else was still working with individual transistors.

You may wonder what all this has to do with RFID. The answer is everything, because spy satellites orbiting Earth 200 miles up cannot detect radio signals very well below 50 MHz! These lower frequencies bounce off the Earth's ionosphere as though it were a mirror, returning them back to Earth or in some cases, completely absorbing them.
In the earlier days of "remote control USA," garage door openers first operated near the 27MHz citizens band frequency. Remote control systems for model airplanes and boats also used this band in the 1970s. There were no personal devices like cell phones, PDAs, WiFi networks, GPS or other toys. All of today's electronic toys operate at far higher frequencies - and all are well within the listening capability of spy satellites. These satellites have directional antenna arrays as large as a football field, that fold out and deploy upon reaching orbit. Super-cooled, ultra-high gain amplifiers can pull a signal out of the mud for almost any given frequency of interest. The shuttle is used to deploy these satellites for the defense dept. on classified missions. Satellite launches are not televised.

Below are just a few of the FCC assigned frequencies for today's toys. This data was extracted from a lengthy 56 page table [1] which came straight from the FCC, the keeper of all things for communications in the USA. Canada's regulatory body generally follows the same spectrum assignments, being a close geographic neighbor. With the exception of the television band included for reference only, I have left out numerous bands reserved for satellite data, Earth to space communications, etc… and other frequencies reserved for non-personal use:
Fixed and land mobile communications - 152 to 156MHz, 161MHz etc…

Maritime Mobile - 156MHz.

TV channels 2 through 13 - 174 to 216MHz.

Amateur radio - 222 to 225MHz. (One of many bands for amateurs)

Fixed mobile - 225 through 328MHz divided into numerous bands

Garage door openers - 317MHz.

Amateur radio location as needed - 420 to 430MHz.

Remote Vehicle Starters - 433MHz

Private land mobile - 451 to 460MHz. divided into numerous bands

Cell phones - 824 to 894 and 1900MHz.

Private paging - 929 to 930MHz.

Broadband PCS - 1850 to 1980 MHz divided into numerous bands

Computer WiFi networking - 4.9GHz [2]

Newer cordless Phones - 5.2GHz. These started at 49Mhz, then went to 900MHz and higher.

The above list is just a small sample of assigned frequencies. Every time you push a talk button on a radio, use a cordless phone (newer cordless digital phones operate at 5.2GHz.,) start a car, activate a garage door opener remote control, place a phone call, page someone etc… you and/or they light up like an airport beacon in the government's satellite tracking system.

Starting your car in the winter by using your remote car starter is a dream invention for intelligence agencies - you're telling them you're about to leave!

The frequencies used by the national ID card will not be officially published of course. However, it won't be long before some enterprising person finds out what they are with testing, and jams the daylights out of them. The FCC has declared a drop-dead date for all current analog commercial television broadcasting from channel 2 through 83 to cease. This date came and went, and has been changed by the Senate to Feb. 17th 2009. [3]
How did they arrive at Feb. 17th 2009? A bigger question still remains unanswered - what will the government dp with the 500 megahertz of spectrum this ban suddenly frees up? No one to date has discussed this issue. This spectrum is not attractive to manufacturers, because these lower frequencies by necessity require very big antennas, as compared to those on cell phones, WiFi boxes and computers, etc… It's also not useful for human RFID implants either which currently use very low frequencies, less than 1 MHz.

With all the "broadcasting" everyone does now using all these electronic devices and many others - why is everyone is worried about being tracked by the ID card?

It would seem to be the least of our problems.

Ted Twietmeyer

www.data4science.net

Strange footnote: UHF television channel 37 is now reserved by the FCC for radio telescope use.

REFERENCES

[1] - http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/database/spectrum/spinvtbl.pdf
[2] - http://www.apcointl.org/frequency/4-9GHz/WiFiPS.htm
[3] - http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5108580-3.html

Hat tip to Andre at Outlaw news!

Resistance to New World Order programs of domination explodes

Oldthinker news | Jan. 31, 2007

By Daniel Taylor

As tyranny is pushed onto the American people, resistance is being stirred from every corner of the land. As the programs for the tracking, numbering, and total domination of the populace becomes reality to more and more people, what was once left only to possible scenarios and a distant future is staring in the faces of millions.

Implantable RFID technology has been promoted in recent years as a means of keeping track of lost children, the elderly, as well as pets. Supreme court justice John Roberts was told during his confirmation hearings by Senator Joseph Biden, "Can microscopic tags be implanted in a person's body to track his every movement? There's actual discussion about that - you will rule on that, mark my words, before your tenure is over."

In Colorado - following similar bills in other states - a bill has been introduced by Rep. Mary Hodge that would render the requiring of individuals to be chipped with RFID tags to be a misdemeanor. Scripps Howard News Service reports,

"DENVER — For years, people have been implanting tiny microchips under their pet's skin so that if Rover's collar slips off, there's still a way to find him if he wanders away.Now a state lawmaker has added a twist to that concept with a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to require two-legged critters to have a microchip implanted under their skin. Under the bill, employers could not track workers' movements, for example."

In Maine, resistance is gathering in opposition to the Real ID Act. The act, signed by President Bush in 2005, is set to become law in 2008. Under the Real ID Act, citizens who do not have the federally approved card, will not be permitted to step foot on a federal building, open a bank account, fly on a plane, or travel by train. Reuters reports,

"BOSTON (Reuters) - Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to demand repeal of a federal law tightening identification requirements for drivers' licenses, a post-September 11 security measure that states say will cost them billions of dollars to administer.

Maine lawmakers passed a resolution urging repeal of the Real ID Act, which would create a national digital identification system by 2008. The lawmakers said it would cost Maine about $185 million, fail to boost security and put people at greater risk of identity theft."

In response to long existing CFR, and globalist plans to create a North American Union between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, a resolution has been introduced by Rep. Stephen Sandstrom to withdraw from the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. The Daily Herald reports,

"A House committee unanimously passed a joint resolution Tuesday that urges the president and Congress to withdraw from the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, now moves to the House floor for a vote.

The SPP, while not an institution, is harshly criticized by some Utah groups. Resolution supporters told the committee Tuesday that the purpose of the SPP is to remove sovereignty from the United States and give it to a North American union, similar to the European Union. The SPP involves the United States, Mexico and Canada."

Lou Dobbs, who has been the only prominent figure in the mainstream media to shed light on the plans for a North American Union, and issues regarding the border, conducted a poll asking respondents, "Do you support legislation that would prohibit any efforts to create a North American Union between the United States, Canada and Mexico?" In response to the poll, 82% stated that "Yes", they would support efforts to stop the NAU. Despite opposition on part of both Americans, as well as Canadians ,they continue, showing the arrogant hubris of the elite, and their total disregard for the wishes of the people.

"Make a dictator act like a dictator"

If resistance of the sort sited above continues, the elite will will be forced to either back off for a time, or choose to pull out all stops, remove their masks, and show the people who they really are.

Either way - we the people will prevail. Fulfill your duties as a patriotic American, as a liberty loving, free human being and inform your friends, family, and even total strangers.

We now have the high ground in the info-war.