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Image via WikipediaFor several years now I have been trying to help warn people about RFID chips not only in Credit Cards but the use of them in ID cards and what is now chipping people under the skin for Obamas New Heathcare.
To see that so many still are not paying much attention to this I will include a couple of links here to keep you up to date. Though I have been posting these since 2008. I'm amazed on how many still seem to not know a thing about it. Be sure to check out some of my previous posts on this subject. Be sure to watch all the Videos as well.
LAS VEGAS -- As credit cards become more high-tech, so too are the thieves trying to steal the information they contain.With the help of a radio frequency reader, FOX5 hit the Las Vegas Strip to find out how easy it was to steal information from unsuspecting tourists.
People on the Strip expressed surprise as their credit card number and expiration date was read back to them -- even though their cards had never left their wallets."I'm shocked, I don't like that," said Janet Kunz. "I don't like that all. I think the credit card companies should do something to protect us."Hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards are embedded with a radio frequency identification chip -- or RFID -- that the credit card industry says makes it easier for consumers to use their cards.The tiny chip inside the card communicates the account information to a merchant via a wireless reader.But only MasterCard -- one of the several credit card companies FOX5 reached out to -- responded, saying,
RFID cards "are as secure as paying with traditional MasterCard cards. Many consumers tell us they feel more secure with PayPass because they never have to turn the card over to a cashier and it never leaves their hand."The problem is that the RFID chip is always on, making consumers more susceptible to identity theft, said Walt Augustinowitz, a privacy advocate."You might as well have your card number painted on you because anyone who picks up this (card reader) online … will pick up that same information," he said.Augustinowitz said that thieves are able to buy card reader equipment through online stores, such as eBay."The idea is to get the info to people so they can protect themselves," he said. "If you don't know the door is unlocked, you don't know to lock it."
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- We have a consumer warning about your credit card. It could contain a simple chip that transmits your credit card information.
Typically, you'd have to wave your credit card past a reader to activate the chip, but the readers can be in the hands of the wrong people, leaving your financial information vulnerable. You use them to unlock doors, open gates and even pay for things with just the wave of a hand. The Radio Frequency ID Chip is the technology that turns your card into a key. Most people may not know it, but their credit cards may also have the chip.
Credit cards with a symbol of a chip on them, or if you have a passport issued since 2006, it has a chip. While the RFID can make life simple, some say the chips are playing a big role in electronic pick-pocketing. "One particular credit card which ended up the very next weekend having a thousand-plus dollars in fraudulent charges which I absolutely did not make," RFID victim Emily Williams said.
Williams is not certain the RFID chip in her credit card gave away her information, but the more she found out about RFID chips and the readers that can be bought online, the more she suspected technology.
REAL ID Background
The Real ID Act of 2005 establishes national standards for state-issued driver's licenses (DL) and non-driver's identification cards (ID). After 11 May 2008 federal agencies are scheduled to only accept DL/IDs that meet Real ID standards. This does not mean that states are required to issue Real ID compliant DL/ID cards; however, non-compliant cards will not be accepted for federal purposes such as boarding a domestic flight.
Real ID compliant credentials will incorporate a digital face image and incorporate some type of common machine-readable technology, such as RFID technology. In addition, the incorporation of iris recognition and/or fingerprint technology has been mentioned. Each state will also be required to share data from their DL/ID card database with other states.
Now Real ID's name has been changed Several times now. From Positive ID, To National ID, Even VeriChip and Digital Angel believe it or not. All of these are the same RFID Technology.
Now I want to show you how easily they all can be hacked into.
The RFID hacks keep coming fast and furious -- hot the heels of that Mifare / Oyster Card exploit, the crew at BoingBoing TV has posted up a little demo of how easy cracking the RFID encryption on an American Express card can be. All it takes is an $8 dollar reader easily available on eBay, some software, and the courage to walk around with a laptop waving plastic boxes at people's butt pockets, but developer Pablos Holman says he's hoping to develop a newer version that will allow him to be a little more discreet. The root of the problem is apparently the fact that the system uses local decryption rather than sending card info to a secure data center, but either way we've been worried about this for a long time -- we're sticking to loose change and the barter system from now on. Video after the break.
Security flaw in Mifare Classic RFID applications exposed. See http://www.ru.nl/ds/research/rfid/ for more information, including the paper "Dismantling MIFARE Classic" with all details.
For more detailed information visit my website: http://www.jessewoodrow.com VERICHIP has now bought STEEL VAULT and has now changed their name once again to POSITIVE ID and for the FIRST TIME EVER now they will be combining MONEY & IDENTITY with a RFID CHIP!!! WOW!!! SIDE NOTE: youtube stats for this video showed that this video was the #1 Favorited video for all of youtube in the first 24 hrs! pretty cool... POWER IS KNOWLEDGE and people want to know this stuff!!
Last month, a three-day summer camp in Israel brought Facebook to the real world. Using bracelets equipped with radio-frequency identification tags and programmed with their Facebook log-ins, teenagers could "Like" objects and activities by holding their arms close to readers throughout the camp. RFID tags - miniature chips that use radio waves to exchange data with reading devices - have been around since World War II, but with production costs dropping and applications sprouting at an unprecedented level, the industry believes the technology's time is now.
But while businesses see RFID as a way to obtain valuable information about their products' whereabouts, critics worry that the expansion of this technology might peel away yet another layer of privacy.
An RFID tag can be small enough to be fitted to an ant's back and often use little to no energy, activating only when they are close to a reader. They have been used for years to keep track of livestock, authenticate ID badges, manage inventories or pay bridge and highway tolls.
But as the technology has become more affordable, it is being used in new applications and areas of innovation, said Victor Vega, marketing director at Morgan Hill RFID firm Alien Technology.
Amusement parks have begun using them to help lost children get back to their parents; friends and relatives of marathon runners wearing RFID-equipped bracelets can follow their progress in a race; pharmaceutical companies are using them to detect counterfeits; and "smart cups" are using the technology to keep track of free refills, Vega said.
With costs as low as 5 to 7 cents per chip, IBISWorld industry analyst Casey Thormahlen said, RFID technology has really boomed in the last five years, and he expects the trend to continue in the next five.
Why spend so much time on this issue you may ask? Because people need to know what their near future is going to be like. No matter what we may believe. This is the technology that is sweeping over the World at a very fast pace.
Since Wal-Mart is taking such a beating for just marking their inventory items. I find it amazing how so many will not touch the very bill that will place this tags on all Humans in Not just America but all those who enter or around us as well.
The ones who are protesting so much and as news media encourages their arguments are now pushing the Federal Government to do their job.
Sounds good right?
National ID, And what many illegals will be calling a blue card as they go for Amnesty.
It's all in the bill. Please read it all.
Now, RFID, Biometric tagging of people can also have ID's and information stolen easily with things just like this very article below. Be sure to click the links.
RFID tags can be read at a surprising range, a researcher has found.
When he's not listening in to GSM phone calls, Chris Paget has been busy seeing at what distance an RFID tag can be read, managing a respectable 217 feet.
Paget also reckons the US military could read an EPC Gen2 tag from 80 miles off, though the connection would likely time out before any data was retrieved. Which is a shame as his calculations put the theoretical maximum read range at 317 miles, if you've got a big enough dish.
Generation 2 tags aren't what we use in credit cards, or NFC-equipped phones, at least not yet. EPC Gen2 tags don't rely on magnetic induction for power and can thus be read at a much greater distance making them ideal for packaging and product labels, and the US Passport Card, among other things.
As Paget explains in his report (pdf) Gen2 readers are more akin to radar in that they send out a radio signal
It could be the ultimate in political control — but it won't be patented in Germany.
German media outlets reported last week that a Saudi inventor's application to patent a "killer chip," as the Swiss tabloids put it, had been denied.
The basic model would consist of a tiny GPS transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin, so that authorities could track him easily.
Model B would have an extra function — a dose of cyanide to remotely kill the wearer without muss or fuss if authorities deemed he'd become a public threat.
The inventor said the chip could be used to track terrorists, criminals, fugitives, illegal immigrants, political dissidents, domestic servants and foreigners overstaying their visas.
"The invention will probably be found to violate paragraph two of the German Patent Law — which does not allow inventions that transgress public order or good morals," German Patent and Trademark Office spokeswoman Stephanie Krüger told the English-language German-news Web site The Local.
"WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with major implantable pacemaker and ICD manufacturers, demonstrated the effects of emissions from radio frequency identification (RFID) readers on common implantable cardiac devices. According to research published in the January edition of the HeartRhythm Journal, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the observed effects may cause increasing complications as RFID use expands in the medical device field. Read full text of study » The study, which looked at the electromagnetic interference susceptibility of 15 pacemakers and 15 ICDs caused by exposure to 13 RFID readers, concluded that low frequency RFID readers may pose the greatest risk to pacemakers and ICDs. While modern pacemakers and ICDs use filters to minimize susceptibility to higher-frequency signals, there is limited filtering of low frequency signals due to the design constraints of both pacemakers and ICDs."
Image via WikipediaA "global Federal Reserve" that dominates the currency and the economy of the entire planet?
At least with the U.S. Federal Reserve there is hope that someday the American people can convince Congress to shut it down.
A "global Federal Reserve" would not answer to anyone. Individual nations could attempt to pull out, but then they would potentially be isolated from the rest of the globe and potentially cut off from world trade.
That may sound very far-fetched now, but that is the direction we are headed.
Revelation 13 14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16And 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: 17And 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. 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
The IMF is trying to move the world away from the U.S. dollar and towards a global currency once again. In a new report entitled "Enhancing International Monetary Stability—A Role for the SDR", the IMF details the "problems" with having the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the globe and the IMF discusses the potential for a larger role for SDRs (Special Drawing Rights). But the IMF certainly does not view SDRs as the "final solution" to global currency problems. Rather, the IMF considers SDRs to be a transitional phase between what we have now and a new world currency. In this newly published report, the IMF makes this point very clearly: "In the even longer run, if there were political willingness to do so, these securities could constitute an embryo of global currency." Yes, you read that correctly. The SDR is supposed to be "an embryo" from which a global currency will one day develop. So what about the U.S. dollar and other national currencies? Well, they would just end up fading away.
CNN clearly understands what the IMF is trying to accomplish with this new report. The following is how CNN's recent story about the new IMF report begins....
"The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world's reserve currency."
That is exactly what the IMF intends to do.
They intend to have SDRs replace the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency.
So exactly what are SDRs?
Well, "SDR" is short for Special Drawing Rights. It is a synthetic currency unit that is made up of a basket of currencies. SDRs have actually been around for many years, but now they are being heavily promoted as an alternative to the dollar.
The following is how Wikipedia defines SDRs....
Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) are international foreign exchange reserve assets. Allocated to nations by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a SDR represents a claim to foreign currencies for which it may be exchanged in times of need.
The SDR is a hybrid. SDRs are part U.S. dollar, part euro, part yen and part British pound. In particular, the following is how each SDR currently breaks down....
U.S. Dollar: 41.9%
Euro: 37.4%
Yen: 9.4%
British Pound: 11.3%
Now there are calls for other national currencies to be included in the basket.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has publicly called for the national currencies of Brazil, Russia, India and China to be included in the SDR.
In January, the Obama administration said that it fully supports the eventual inclusion of the yuan in the SDR.
Government Moving Forward with Laws Requiring RFID in Drivers' Licenses
http://www.lambslain.com/2011/05/states-moving-forward-with-laws.html The government is using heightened security concerns arising from the manufactured 'war on terror' and illegal immigration to increase interest and research into biometric technology, with the end goal being mandatory electronic biometric national IDs. The 'war on terror' has destroyed America more in the last ten years than any attack on home soil. "The events of September 11, 2001, were the trigger for a flurry of developments in the biometrics field. The USA Patriot Act, passed in October 2001, introduced measures requiring all foreign visitors to provide machine-readable, biometric travel documents, and put into place an entry-exit system to monitor movements to and from the country. This legislation prompted a number of other countries to adapt their travel documents accordingly and to set up biometric identity checks to ensure border security" [Rebekah Thomas, Biometrics, Migrants, and Human Rights, Global Commission on International Migration, Migration Policy Institute, March 2005].
NBC Channel 2 News, Lee County, Florida - An amendment to a Senate bill is working its way through Florida Senate committees that would require an "electronic authentication" to be added to Florida drivers' licenses.
Right now, drivers' licenses have all the information on the back strip. But to access it, it has to be swiped. The amendment would place Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips in the license, which could compromise the security of your identity.
Security expert Walk Augustinowicz breaks down the bill.
"There are other states with RFID in their drivers' licenses, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Washington state," he says.
He goes on to say these states started using the RFID chips as a way to ensure licenses couldn't be duplicated.
However, he explains how easy it is to steal the card's card information in less than a second if you're in the range of an RFID reader.
"It's not something to be taken lightly," he says. "anything once you put a radio chip in it, you need to have physcial protection. There's always a hacker that's going to figure a way around it."
While this is the same technology that could be put in your driver's license, Walt says some states provide people with a security sleeve that protects licenses from being scanned.
Currently, the bill has not been passed. It must still clear several hurdles before being presented to the governor.
VeriChip Highlights Role Implanted Chip May Play in a Government Immigration and Guest Worker Program
http://www.hispanicprwire.com/news.php?l=in&id=6406 Using VeriChip’s secure implantable RFID technology, the Department of Homeland Security can ensure that a secure, tamper-proof system is in place to identify, register and confirm guest worker credentials at the border or at an employer’s premises. VeriChip already employs the same technology to provide secure access to medical records and to secure areas of buildings such as hospitals or office buildings. Medical records access may prove relevant in immigration applications as well. In addition to border security, this device can provide medical records of guest workers that may be unable to communicate (currently a strain on our medical system).
In addition, the VeriChip can also be bonded into a piece of paper, implanted into an ID card or into a wearable wrist bracelet. Use of this RFID chip in tandem with, or in lieu of the immigration “blue card”, provides an additional layer of security to confirm the identity of a guest worker.
“It’s really no different than a tamperproof passport you can carry all the time,” says Silverman. “As concerns mount about falsified documents, VeriChip technology ensures security and privacy for the individual as well as increased security at our borders.”
VeriChip Corporation, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, develops, markets and sells radio frequency identification, or RFID, systems used to identify, locate and protect people and assets. VeriChip's goal is to become the leading provider of RFID systems for people in the healthcare industry. VeriChip sells passive RFID systems for identification purposes and active RFID systems for local-area location and identification purposes. VeriChip recently began to market its VeriMed(TM) Patient Identification System which is used to rapidly and accurately identify people who arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. This system uses the first human-implantable passive RFID microchip, the implantable VeriChip(TM), cleared for medical use in October 2004 by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
About Applied Digital - "The Power of Identification Technology"
05-01-2011 • spectrum.ieee.org/
From each volunteer participant, the government collects 10 fingerprints, 2 iris images, and a photo, and if the new data don’t match any identity already enrolled, it assigns the person a unique 12-digit number. After that, a single fingerprint or iris scan should be all that’s needed to verify the identity of any person. As of the end of March, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has registered more than 4 million people this way.
The UIDAI hopes to eventually collect biometrics from a majority of the Indian population. India has many federal and state programs to help people living in poverty, but today it’s nearly impossible to be sure that funds and benefits are actually being delivered to those who need them. The ID project is an attempt to cut down on fraud and graft by increasing accountability and transparency. It’s also meant to provide access to banking and the formal economy that many people lack.
Government biometrics programs have been tried before and failed, in India and elsewhere. The United Kingdom’s universal ID program, for instance, got bogged down by both costs and privacy concerns and didn’t offer tangible benefits to the average citizen. But the UIDAI’s universal ID program, or Aadhaar, as it’s called, seems to be off to a fast start. As soon as he was appointed in July 2009, chairman Nandan M. Nilekani set the ambitious goal of issuing the first million IDs within 12 to 18 months, and the UIDAI hit that mark by January 2011. Efficiency is not a strength of most government bureaucracies, so Nilekani looked to Silicon Valley for help. A core group of Indian expats with Silicon Valley start-up experience began working on the problem, as unpaid volunteers. Read Full Story
Image via WikipediaMany people actually think this could be a good thing. Using Biometrics to prove who you say you are. Though on the outside this seems like a great idea. On the inside, this is no different than numbering the Jews to wipe them out.
Social Media climbs at extreme rates. People hacking sites and information are only making it even worse for the people who use everything honestly.
The general idea of RFID seems to reflect a very good idea to keep track of products and animals. But now? The Dream Act, Obamacare and several other bills passed are pushing the idea to track and have ALL personal information on a chip. Using things like eye scans or fingerprints, Facial recognition to prove who you say you are. Sound like a good idea? You may want to re think before you begin supporting this major issue everyone seem to want to ignore today.
All online data is easily hacked. Not some, Security is mostly just word not reality when it comes to online hacking. This also includes everything we use today. From your Cell phone or what they call Smart phones, anything basicly with the word Smart is a tracking system. That's why its called Smart. Also, All your info on your phone is and can be hacked. GPS for location, Facebook and G plus for who you are and what you look like, Friends and family and so on.
There is also, New cards with RFID chips that combine all this information and is stored in a database. Along with new cars, plugs to go into your car. (for better rates) so they say. Gaming devices that go online, All social media, and phone numbers, banking info and the list goes on and on and on. All this can and will be placed on these chips. All for the your safety as it's called.
What many people don't know is that anyone with an 8 dollar scanner can and will and have already hacked these chips and shows how easy it can be done. Yet, it seems most don't have a clue about this. You can do a simple search on this site using the Word RFID. I have several links on this show this information. I will also post a few here.
Now look at this article and think, Is this really a good Idea?
See the full article here. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/business/online-id-verification-plan-carries-risks.html?_r=1
Consumers who still pay bills via snail mail. Hospitals leery of making treatment records available online to their patients. Some state motor vehicle registries that require car owners to appear in person — or to mail back license plates — in order to transfer vehicle ownership.
But the White House is out to fight cyberphobia with an initiative intended to bolster confidence in e-commerce.
The plan, called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and introduced earlier this year, encourages the private-sector development and public adoption of online user authentication systems. Think of it as a driver’s license for the Internet. The idea is that if people have a simple, easy way to prove who they are online with more than a flimsy password, they’ll naturally do more business on the Web. And companies and government agencies, like Social Security or the I.R.S., could offer those consumers faster, more secure online services without having to come up with their own individual vetting systems.
If the plan works, consumers who opt in might soon be able to choose among trusted third parties — such as banks, technology companies or cellphone service providers — that could verify certain personal information about them and issue them secure credentials to use in online transactions.
Industry experts expect that each authentication technology would rely on at least two different ID confirmation methods. Those might include embedding an encryption chip in people’s phones, issuing smart cards or using one-time passwords or biometric identifiers like fingerprints to confirm substantial transactions. Banks already use two-factor authentication, confirming people’s identities when they open accounts and then issuing depositors with A.T.M. cards, says Kaliya Hamlin, an online identity expert known by the name of her Web site, Identity Woman.
Image via WikipediaIn case many of you missed this back in Jan 2011. I thought I would put a fresh reminder for those still trying to ignore new laws leading up to this. A real threat that's widely ignored. But first Let me post this.
Revelation 13 16And 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: 17And 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. 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Rice, Korean collaboration produces printable tag that could replace bar codes
Long lines at store checkouts could be history if a new technology created in part at Rice University comes to pass.
Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho at Sunchon National University in Korea, have come up with an inexpensive, printable transmitter that can be invisibly embedded in packaging. It would allow a customer to walk a cart full of groceries or other goods past a scanner on the way to the car; the scanner would read all items in the cart at once, total them up and charge the customer's account while adjusting the store's inventory.
The ink is used to make thin-film transistors, a key element in radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that can be printed on paper or plastic.
RFID tags are almost everywhere already. The tiny electronic transmitters are used to identify and track products and farm animals. They're in passports, library books and devices that let drivers pass through tollbooths without digging for change.
More advanced versions could collect all the information about the contents of a store in an instant, letting a retailer know where every package is at any time.
It would allow a customer to walk a cart full of groceries or other goods past a scanner on the way to the car; the scanner would read all items in the cart at once, total them up and charge the customer's account while adjusting the store's inventory.
Image via WikipediaFor several years now I have been trying to help warn people about RFID chips not only in Credit Cards but the use of them in ID cards and what is now chipping people under the skin for Obamas New Heathcare.
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