United Airlines Introduces The RFID Chip.

Antaletriangle · 02-07-2009, 11:07 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TknLzJmn0X0

MSNBC reports on how wonderful the new RFID chip will be to it's customers.
United Airlines: Get Chipped To Save 3 Minute Delay - You're Worth It

http://www.amazon.com/Playmobil-3172...pr_product_top

judykott · 02-07-2009, 04:59 PM

Classic example of boil the frog
The boiling frog story states that a frog can be boiled alive if the water is heated slowly enough — it is said that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will never jump out.

The story is generally told in a figurative context, with the upshot being that people should make themselves aware of gradual change lest they suffer a catastrophic loss. Often it is used to illustrate a slippery-slope argument. For example, many civil libertarians argue that even minor increases in government authority, which may seem less noteworthy, make future increases in that authority more likely: what would once have seemed a huge power grab, the argument goes, now becomes seen as just another incremental increase, and thus appears more palatable. In the boiling-frog allegory, the frog represents the citizenry, whilst the gradual heating of the water represents the incremental encroachment of government. Others have used it as an analogy with the growth of the offshore-world over decades, and how ordinary citizens have accepted the presence of abusive tax havens.

In the UK railway industry, "boiling frog syndrome" has been adopted as shorthand for the unnoticed escalation in infrastructure and maintenance costs under Railtrack. The phrase was first coined by Roger Ford, columnist for Modern Railways magazine.[1]

The story has been reprinted many times and used to illustrate many different points, including:

warning against people sympathetic to the Soviet Union ("The frog dropped into boiling water has sense to leap out, but the frog dropped into cold water can be cooked to death before he realizes he is in serious trouble. So it is with us Americans and our civilization in this mounting crisis. We must beware of those who want to thaw the cold war out at any cost. We may be cooked before we realize what has happened.")[2]
warning against inaction in response to climate change ("This is not an experiment I wish to commend, but it has lessons for another animal—ourselves. If drastic change takes place abruptly, we notice and react to it. If it takes place gradually, over a few generations, we are hardly aware of it, and by the time that we are ready to react, it can be too late.")[3]
warning about the impending collapse of civilization ("That's what's happening to us. Things are getting worse and worse, so we don't really notice what's happening. Whatever happens will happen slowly, and we won't have time to jump out.")[4]
as a way of understanding the Sorites paradox ("The art of frog-boiling is an ancient one, and the correct procedure will emerge in the course of considering an ancient puzzle, the so-called 'Paradox of the Heap' or Sorites.")[5]
warning against being in abusive relationships ("We are not inclined to notice gradual changes. This is how most partners adapt to verbal abuse. They slowly adapt until, like frog number two, they are living in an environment which is killing to their spirit.")[6]
Al Gore uses the analogy in his presentations and the movie An Inconvenient Truth to describe people's ignorance towards the issue of global warming. It is common in books about business, economics, and marketing to illustrate the idea that change needs to be gradual if it is to be accepted, and as a warning against being slowly "boiled" in one's job.

In the book The Story of B, author Daniel Quinn uses the story of the boiling frog as metaphor for humans of our culture (defined by the practice of totalitarian agriculture). The boiling water in this case is the population growth that food surpluses make possible, combined with the belief that all resources in the world exist solely for the purpose of growing human food.

[edit] Veracity
The story's origins are rooted in nineteenth-century physiological literature. An article co-written by G. Stanley Hall from 1887 indicates that many experiments were performed on frogs in the 1870s and 1880s for the purposes of determining how reactive their nervous systems were to various types of stimuli, with temperature change being one of these.[7] One source from 1897 lists an experiment done in 1882 at Johns Hopkins as evidence that "a live frog can actually be boiled without a movement if the water is heated slowly enough; in one experiment the temperature was raised at a rate of 0.002°C. per second, and the frog was found dead at the end of 2½ hours without having moved."[8]

The story has been challenged by one or more recent experiments.[9][10] However, in these experiments, the temperature was increased at a rate of 2°F. per minute (or 0.019°C. per second), which is almost 10 times faster than the rate of temperature increase in the 1882 experiments.

Professor Doug Melton, Harvard University Biology Department, says, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot -- they don't sit still for you."[11]

Wikipedia

Avid · 02-07-2009, 06:12 PM

http://revelationwatch.blogspot.com/...passports.html

Hackers can clone these RFID chips easily....
This is utter nonsense - we should remove all tags asap!

Quote:

"Researchers have shown that it is possible for criminals to clone RFID tags held in US border passports and enhanced driver’s licences (EDL) which also contain the chips.

In a paper co-authored with staff at the University of Washington and internet security firm RSA the team detail how the RFID chips can be cloned from distances of up to 150 feet. They also found that a key anti-cloning technique recommended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had not been used on the tags.

Since earlier this year Americans crossing borders by land or sea (but not air) have been able to apply for the United States Passport Card (also known as the PASS Card) which contains a readable RFID chip. This was intended to speed up border crossings and make them more secure.

However, the team found that the RFID tags were Class One Generation Two models, which while cheap at about ten cents each, are very insecure.

“Gen-2 tags, however, are essentially wireless barcodes, with no specific provisions to meet security and privacy needs,” the researchers note.

“Just as their optical counterparts are subject to photocopying, Gen-2 EPC tags are vulnerable to cloning attacks in which their publicly visible data are scanned (\skimmed") by an adversary and then transferred to a clone device, be it another tag or a more sophisticated emulator.”

Furthermore the RFID chips did not use unique tag identifier codes, as recommended by the DHS, but generic manufacturer’s codes, making cloning much easier.

Both the PASS cards and EDLs were also worryingly easy to read from a distance, under ideal conditions from up to 50 metres away. This would make cloning them much less risky for criminals.

“The lessons we have gleaned on cloning and anticloning extend well beyond the setting of EDLs and Passport Cards to Electronic Product Code (EPC) deployment in any setting where cloning or counterfeiting poses a risk,” the report ‘EPC RFID Tags in Security Applications: Passport Cards, Enhanced Drivers Licenses, and Beyond’ concludes

“For example, with the encouragement of government regulators, the pharmaceutical industry is gradually embracing EPC for tracking and anticounterfeiting at the prompting of the United States Food and Drug Administration, foreshadowing the technology's broad industry use as a security tool. Indeed, counterfeiting of consumer goods is a risk in nearly every industry.”

Swanny · 02-07-2009, 06:59 PM

Hooray for the hackers

Myra · 02-07-2009, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avid

http://revelationwatch.blogspot.com/...passports.html

Hackers can clone these RFID chips easily....
This is utter nonsense - we should remove all tags asap!

Yeah thatll' work out real well for those Elites....

02-07-2009, 11:07 AM	#1
Antaletriangle Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: U.K. Posts: 3,380	United Airlines Introduces The RFID Chip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TknLzJmn0X0 MSNBC reports on how wonderful the new RFID chip will be to it's customers. United Airlines: Get Chipped To Save 3 Minute Delay - You're Worth It http://www.amazon.com/Playmobil-3172...pr_product_top Last edited by Antaletriangle; 02-07-2009 at 11:10 AM.

02-07-2009, 04:59 PM	#2
judykott Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 711	Re: United Airlines Introduces The RFID Chip. Classic example of boil the frog The boiling frog story states that a frog can be boiled alive if the water is heated slowly enough — it is said that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will never jump out. The story is generally told in a figurative context, with the upshot being that people should make themselves aware of gradual change lest they suffer a catastrophic loss. Often it is used to illustrate a slippery-slope argument. For example, many civil libertarians argue that even minor increases in government authority, which may seem less noteworthy, make future increases in that authority more likely: what would once have seemed a huge power grab, the argument goes, now becomes seen as just another incremental increase, and thus appears more palatable. In the boiling-frog allegory, the frog represents the citizenry, whilst the gradual heating of the water represents the incremental encroachment of government. Others have used it as an analogy with the growth of the offshore-world over decades, and how ordinary citizens have accepted the presence of abusive tax havens. In the UK railway industry, "boiling frog syndrome" has been adopted as shorthand for the unnoticed escalation in infrastructure and maintenance costs under Railtrack. The phrase was first coined by Roger Ford, columnist for Modern Railways magazine.[1] The story has been reprinted many times and used to illustrate many different points, including: warning against people sympathetic to the Soviet Union ("The frog dropped into boiling water has sense to leap out, but the frog dropped into cold water can be cooked to death before he realizes he is in serious trouble. So it is with us Americans and our civilization in this mounting crisis. We must beware of those who want to thaw the cold war out at any cost. We may be cooked before we realize what has happened.")[2] warning against inaction in response to climate change ("This is not an experiment I wish to commend, but it has lessons for another animal—ourselves. If drastic change takes place abruptly, we notice and react to it. If it takes place gradually, over a few generations, we are hardly aware of it, and by the time that we are ready to react, it can be too late.")[3] warning about the impending collapse of civilization ("That's what's happening to us. Things are getting worse and worse, so we don't really notice what's happening. Whatever happens will happen slowly, and we won't have time to jump out.")[4] as a way of understanding the Sorites paradox ("The art of frog-boiling is an ancient one, and the correct procedure will emerge in the course of considering an ancient puzzle, the so-called 'Paradox of the Heap' or Sorites.")[5] warning against being in abusive relationships ("We are not inclined to notice gradual changes. This is how most partners adapt to verbal abuse. They slowly adapt until, like frog number two, they are living in an environment which is killing to their spirit.")[6] Al Gore uses the analogy in his presentations and the movie An Inconvenient Truth to describe people's ignorance towards the issue of global warming. It is common in books about business, economics, and marketing to illustrate the idea that change needs to be gradual if it is to be accepted, and as a warning against being slowly "boiled" in one's job. In the book The Story of B, author Daniel Quinn uses the story of the boiling frog as metaphor for humans of our culture (defined by the practice of totalitarian agriculture). The boiling water in this case is the population growth that food surpluses make possible, combined with the belief that all resources in the world exist solely for the purpose of growing human food. [edit] Veracity The story's origins are rooted in nineteenth-century physiological literature. An article co-written by G. Stanley Hall from 1887 indicates that many experiments were performed on frogs in the 1870s and 1880s for the purposes of determining how reactive their nervous systems were to various types of stimuli, with temperature change being one of these.[7] One source from 1897 lists an experiment done in 1882 at Johns Hopkins as evidence that "a live frog can actually be boiled without a movement if the water is heated slowly enough; in one experiment the temperature was raised at a rate of 0.002°C. per second, and the frog was found dead at the end of 2½ hours without having moved."[8] The story has been challenged by one or more recent experiments.[9][10] However, in these experiments, the temperature was increased at a rate of 2°F. per minute (or 0.019°C. per second), which is almost 10 times faster than the rate of temperature increase in the 1882 experiments. Professor Doug Melton, Harvard University Biology Department, says, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot -- they don't sit still for you."[11] Wikipedia

02-07-2009, 06:59 PM	#4
Swanny I dont need a label ! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Shire of Wilt Posts: 2,889	Re: United Airlines Introduces The RFID Chip. Hooray for the hackers