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Why not make it standard?

Why not make it standard?

Posted Nov 26, 2005 1:25 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Why not make it standard? by bojan
Parent article: Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal)

Well, think about why people use RFID. If you had to unsheath it every time you wanted it used, it would defeat the purpose.

If we want privacy more than the convenience of RFID scanning, we could just go back to a magnetic stripe ID badge that you swipe or a key that you plug into a socket.


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