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RFID thread
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frag
2005-09-06 14:28:27 UTC
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A few people commented in the "RFID is nasty" thread that we'd have
people lurking outside our houses with their readers and antenna
checking out all the groceries we have.

Received Insights catalog today with this on the cover:-

Datalogic Jet 001-511 RFID reader. (inc bluetooth & barcode scanner)

Cost £1599.99 ex.

Operating range : 10cm

So unless you arrange everything along your window sill, it ain't going
to work! :)
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MikeH
2005-09-06 14:42:10 UTC
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Post by frag
A few people commented in the "RFID is nasty" thread that we'd have
people lurking outside our houses with their readers and antenna
checking out all the groceries we have.
Received Insights catalog today with this on the cover:-
Datalogic Jet 001-511 RFID reader. (inc bluetooth & barcode scanner)
Cost £1599.99 ex.
Operating range : 10cm
So unless you arrange everything along your window sill, it ain't going
to work! :)
That's going to narrow the doors in Tescos quite a bit.
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doetnietcomputeren
2005-09-06 15:02:15 UTC
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Post by frag
Operating range : 10cm
So unless you arrange everything along your window
sill, it ain't going to work! :)
that's like receiving a monkeybike catalogue and assuming you could use it
to circumnavigate the globe.

well you *could*[1] but there's far better machinery suited to that
particular task.

I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here to stay
and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get used to it.


[1] except for the wet bits
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Ginge
2005-09-06 15:06:08 UTC
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Post by doetnietcomputeren
I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here to stay
and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get used to it.
I see a gap in the market for farraday cage shopping bags.
doetnietcomputeren
2005-09-06 15:24:26 UTC
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Post by Ginge
I see a gap in the market for farraday cage
shopping bags.
Thieves have been lining shopping bags with foil for years already, to get
around security tags.
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Dnc
Rope
2005-09-08 03:24:05 UTC
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Post by Ginge
Post by doetnietcomputeren
I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here to stay
and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get used to it.
I see a gap in the market for farraday cage shopping bags.
There was one of those police programs on the other night where they raided
a drug dealers house and showed a bag lined with tin-foil for just such
purposes.
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tallbloke
2005-09-06 15:29:40 UTC
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Post by doetnietcomputeren
I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here to stay
and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get used to it.
So you wouldn't regard having an RFID chip embedded in your vehicle
numberplate as a privacy issue then? Just get used to being continuously
monitored?
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sweller
2005-09-07 06:52:05 UTC
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Post by tallbloke
Post by doetnietcomputeren
I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here to
stay and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get used
to it.
So you wouldn't regard having an RFID chip embedded in your vehicle
numberplate as a privacy issue then? Just get used to being
continuously monitored?
Have you got something to hide or are you some kind of luddite that wants
to take us backwards?

If we don't take these great strides forwards we'll simply be giving in
to terrorists.
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Simon
tallbloke
2005-09-07 07:12:24 UTC
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Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
Post by doetnietcomputeren
I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here to
stay and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get used
to it.
So you wouldn't regard having an RFID chip embedded in your vehicle
numberplate as a privacy issue then? Just get used to being
continuously monitored?
Have you got something to hide or are you some kind of luddite that
wants to take us backwards?
If we don't take these great strides forwards we'll simply be giving in
to terrorists.
If we don't wake up to what's happening we'll be sleepwalking into the
surveillance society.
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sweller
2005-09-07 07:15:26 UTC
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Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
Post by doetnietcomputeren
I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here to
stay and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get
used >> > to it.
Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
So you wouldn't regard having an RFID chip embedded in your vehicle
numberplate as a privacy issue then? Just get used to being
continuously monitored?
Have you got something to hide or are you some kind of luddite that
wants to take us backwards?
If we don't take these great strides forwards we'll simply be giving
in to terrorists.
If we don't wake up to what's happening we'll be sleepwalking into the
surveillance society.
It's only a problem for those who want to destroy freedom and our way of
life. Or is that what you want?
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Simon
tallbloke
2005-09-07 07:23:24 UTC
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Post by sweller
Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
Post by doetnietcomputeren
I maintain, RFID is here, it has been for a long time, it's here
to stay and will only proliferate. The anti-lobby just need to get
used >> > to it.
Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
So you wouldn't regard having an RFID chip embedded in your vehicle
numberplate as a privacy issue then? Just get used to being
continuously monitored?
Have you got something to hide or are you some kind of luddite that
wants to take us backwards?
If we don't take these great strides forwards we'll simply be giving
in to terrorists.
If we don't wake up to what's happening we'll be sleepwalking into the
surveillance society.
It's only a problem for those who want to destroy freedom and our way of
life. Or is that what you want?
Tell you what. Lets insist that all our public servants wear the tags
first so we can see how well it works.
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sweller
2005-09-07 07:31:38 UTC
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Post by tallbloke
Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
Post by sweller
If we don't take these great strides forwards we'll simply be
giving in to terrorists.
If we don't wake up to what's happening we'll be sleepwalking into
the surveillance society.
It's only a problem for those who want to destroy freedom and our way
of life. Or is that what you want?
Tell you what. Lets insist that all our public servants wear the tags
first so we can see how well it works.
I can see the protection of our way of life and improved security for
employees being as good as reason as any; it would be hypocritical of us
to keep insisting on improvements to workplace safety but to reject this.

If it also means the spin off logistical and data management benefits,
err, benefit the customer it can only be something we should encourage
and embrace.

I think you're only taking the 'ultra' view to bolster your lefty
credentials. Real life doesn't work like that.
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tallbloke
2005-09-07 08:00:53 UTC
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Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
Post by sweller
If we don't take these great strides forwards we'll simply be
giving in to terrorists.
If we don't wake up to what's happening we'll be sleepwalking into
the surveillance society.
It's only a problem for those who want to destroy freedom and our way
of life. Or is that what you want?
Tell you what. Lets insist that all our public servants wear the tags
first so we can see how well it works.
I can see the protection of our way of life and improved security for
employees being as good as reason as any; it would be hypocritical of us
to keep insisting on improvements to workplace safety but to reject this.
If it also means the spin off logistical and data management benefits,
err, benefit the customer it can only be something we should encourage
and embrace.
I think you're only taking the 'ultra' view to bolster your lefty
credentials. Real life doesn't work like that.
I was thinking more of the pilot project requiring all MP's and Home
Office Civil Service to wear them. Let's see how keen they are to embrace
their own arguments. After all, the house of commons is at more risk of
terrorist attack than 23 Anystreet Yourtown n'est pas?
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sweller
2005-09-07 08:03:54 UTC
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Post by tallbloke
Post by sweller
I can see the protection of our way of life and improved security for
employees being as good as reason as any; it would be hypocritical of
us to keep insisting on improvements to workplace safety but to reject
this.
If it also means the spin off logistical and data management benefits,
err, benefit the customer it can only be something we should encourage
and embrace.
I think you're only taking the 'ultra' view to bolster your lefty
credentials. Real life doesn't work like that.
I was thinking more of the pilot project requiring all MP's and Home
Office Civil Service to wear them. Let's see how keen they are to
embrace their own arguments. After all, the house of commons is at more
risk of terrorist attack than 23 Anystreet Yourtown n'est pas?
Their primary aim /must/ be protecting innocent people.
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Simon
tallbloke
2005-09-07 08:34:56 UTC
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Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
I was thinking more of the pilot project requiring all MP's and Home
Office Civil Service to wear them. Let's see how keen they are to
embrace their own arguments. After all, the house of commons is at more
risk of terrorist attack than 23 Anystreet Yourtown n'est pas?
Their primary aim /must/ be protecting innocent people.
I see what you mean. If that's the case, they'd be way down the list.
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sweller
2005-09-07 08:43:05 UTC
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Post by tallbloke
I was thinking more of the pilot project requiring all MP's and Home
Office Civil Service to wear them. Let's see how keen they are to
embrace their own arguments. After all, the house of commons is at
more >> risk of terrorist attack than 23 Anystreet Yourtown n'est pas?
Their primary aim must be protecting innocent people.
I see what you mean. If that's the case, they'd be way down the list.
I'm sorry I can't do this anymore because (a) it's made me feel poorly
and (b) I'm beginning to believe it.
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Simon
tallbloke
2005-09-07 08:52:39 UTC
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Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
Their primary aim must be protecting innocent people.
I see what you mean. If that's the case, they'd be way down the list.
I'm sorry I can't do this anymore because (a) it's made me feel poorly
and (b) I'm beginning to believe it.
:-)

It's easy to distinguish ordinary folk from politicians isn't it?
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Champ
2005-09-07 13:58:41 UTC
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:43:05 +0100, "sweller"
Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
I was thinking more of the pilot project requiring all MP's and Home
Office Civil Service to wear them. Let's see how keen they are to
embrace their own arguments. After all, the house of commons is at
more >> risk of terrorist attack than 23 Anystreet Yourtown n'est pas?
Their primary aim must be protecting innocent people.
I see what you mean. If that's the case, they'd be way down the list.
I'm sorry I can't do this anymore because (a) it's made me feel poorly
and (b) I'm beginning to believe it.
heh. I wondered a) when you were going to give up and b) whether
tallbloke thought you were serious.
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tallbloke
2005-09-08 00:03:11 UTC
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Post by Champ
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:43:05 +0100, "sweller"
Post by sweller
Post by tallbloke
I see what you mean. If that's the case, they'd be way down the list.
I'm sorry I can't do this anymore because (a) it's made me feel poorly
and (b) I'm beginning to believe it.
heh. I wondered a) when you were going to give up and b) whether
tallbloke thought you were serious.
Si, our double-act may be improving, or improvising, or something.
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Lozzo
2005-09-06 17:59:52 UTC
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doetnietcomputeren says...
Post by doetnietcomputeren
Post by frag
Operating range : 10cm
So unless you arrange everything along your window
sill, it ain't going to work! :)
that's like receiving a monkeybike catalogue and assuming you could use it
to circumnavigate the globe.
My mate Mark Roche circumnavigated the mainland Britain on a Honda ST70
Monkey bike, 2-up with full camping kit back in 1983. He's the same
nutter who built the H1 engined SS50, and later had a full-race TZ350 of
highly dubious legality as his 'get to work' bike.

Last I heard he'd gone mental and bought a fucking Harley.
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Ben Blaney
2005-09-07 11:08:43 UTC
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Post by Lozzo
My mate Mark Roche circumnavigated the mainland Britain on a Honda ST70
Monkey bike, 2-up with full camping kit back in 1983. He's the same
nutter who built the H1 engined SS50, and later had a full-race TZ350 of
highly dubious legality as his 'get to work' bike.
Last I heard he'd gone mental and bought a fucking Harley.
Poor fella. It's sad when their minds go, isn't it?
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Lozzo
2005-09-07 18:34:24 UTC
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Ben Blaney says...
Post by Ben Blaney
Post by Lozzo
My mate Mark Roche circumnavigated the mainland Britain on a Honda ST70
Monkey bike, 2-up with full camping kit back in 1983. He's the same
nutter who built the H1 engined SS50, and later had a full-race TZ350 of
highly dubious legality as his 'get to work' bike.
Last I heard he'd gone mental and bought a fucking Harley.
Poor fella. It's sad when their minds go, isn't it?
It's hard to say when his mind went. Rocky was never the most sane
person, he worked as a waiter to save for diving courses so he could
train to be a deep sea diver/underwater welder. You can see why he's
like he is now.
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Eiron
2005-09-07 20:52:40 UTC
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Post by Lozzo
My mate Mark Roche circumnavigated the mainland Britain on a Honda ST70
Monkey bike, 2-up with full camping kit back in 1983. He's the same
nutter who built the H1 engined SS50, and later had a full-race TZ350 of
highly dubious legality as his 'get to work' bike.
That's cool but what is a non-full-race TZ350?
It must be fun trying to start one in the company car park, in the rain.
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Lozzo
2005-09-07 21:06:34 UTC
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Eiron says...
Post by Eiron
Post by Lozzo
My mate Mark Roche circumnavigated the mainland Britain on a Honda ST70
Monkey bike, 2-up with full camping kit back in 1983. He's the same
nutter who built the H1 engined SS50, and later had a full-race TZ350 of
highly dubious legality as his 'get to work' bike.
That's cool but what is a non-full-race TZ350?
It must be fun trying to start one in the company car park, in the rain.
A non-full-race one is one with lights, and quieter pipes and road
tyres. Rocky's was a full-on race bike with a number plate bodged on and
a dodgy MOT.
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Andy
2005-09-06 15:09:30 UTC
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Post by frag
Datalogic Jet 001-511 RFID reader. (inc bluetooth & barcode scanner)
Cost £1599.99 ex.
Operating range : 10cm
Sounds a bit overpriced, given that these chaps managed to read a passive
RFID tag from 69 feet away using what appear to be a couple of TV aerials:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/07/_defcon_rfid_wo.html

...Andy
Dave Jennings
2005-09-06 15:36:29 UTC
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Post by Andy
Sounds a bit overpriced, given that these chaps managed to read a passive
RFID tag from 69 feet away
Bingo! RFID hardware is still madly overpriced, that's why we built our
own OEM stuff. Read ranges, as Andy says above, vary wildly dependent
on frequency / tag / tag placement / environment / what way the wind's
blwoing at that specific moment.

Las Vegas Airport ( McCurran? ) trialled RFID for baggage and were
getting read ranges >60m, and that caused no end of problems with
baggage being grouped together when it shouldn't have been.
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frag
2005-09-08 01:57:11 UTC
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Post by Dave Jennings
Post by Andy
Sounds a bit overpriced, given that these chaps managed to read a
passive RFID tag from 69 feet away
Bingo! RFID hardware is still madly overpriced, that's why we built
our own OEM stuff. Read ranges, as Andy says above, vary wildly
dependent on frequency / tag / tag placement / environment / what way
the wind's blwoing at that specific moment.
Las Vegas Airport ( McCurran? ) trialled RFID for baggage and were
getting read ranges >60m, and that caused no end of problems with
baggage being grouped together when it shouldn't have been.
Maybe, just *maybe*, this is why the range is 10cm, any more and it
picks up far too many tags to be of any use?
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Dave Jennings
2005-09-08 08:32:44 UTC
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Post by frag
Maybe, just *maybe*, this is why the range is 10cm, any more and it
picks up far too many tags to be of any use?
Yup. Different frequency tags for different apps, so you can "fine
tune" the read range to minimise exceptions by false reads.
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Dave Jennings
Wik
2005-09-06 17:28:12 UTC
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Post by frag
A few people commented in the "RFID is nasty" thread
[snip]

Must have missed that...

Spookily, this was the first thread I saw when I refreshed just now,
having just put the 'phone down to my boss who was asking for some input
on an RFID project we're bidding on! Are you bugging my flat, Rich?
:-)
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frag
2005-09-08 01:58:04 UTC
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Post by Wik
Post by frag
A few people commented in the "RFID is nasty" thread
[snip]
Must have missed that...
Spookily, this was the first thread I saw when I refreshed just now,
having just put the 'phone down to my boss who was asking for some
input on an RFID project we're bidding on! Are you bugging my flat,
Rich? :-)
Moi? Bugs? I haven't the slightest idea what you're on about old chap...

:~)
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Bear
2005-09-06 18:11:52 UTC
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Post by frag
A few people commented in the "RFID is nasty" thread that we'd have
people lurking outside our houses with their readers and antenna
checking out all the groceries we have.
Operating range : 10cm
So unless you arrange everything along your window sill, it ain't going
to work! :)
And even if it did, why am I supposed to be paranoid about people
checking out my groceries?
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Wicked Uncle Nigel
2005-09-06 20:56:31 UTC
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear
Post by Bear
Post by frag
A few people commented in the "RFID is nasty" thread that we'd have
people lurking outside our houses with their readers and antenna
checking out all the groceries we have.
Operating range : 10cm
So unless you arrange everything along your window sill, it ain't going
to work! :)
And even if it did, why am I supposed to be paranoid about people
checking out my groceries?
<bleep>

Fuck! All that "cookery" stuff's bullshit! He's got fourteen tins of
blue-and-white-stripy baked beans and a white loaf...
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