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Gordon Burditt <gordon@hammy.burditt.org> wrote:
> In article <ethc62h0qjf4aph9ch46bnu4f37kciiuso@4ax.com>,
> Bob Ward  <bobward@email.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 May 2006 20:51:05 -0000, gordonb.n43x0@burditt.org (Gordon
>> Burditt) wrote:
>>
>>>> You only need to create the link between the ID number and the
>>>> person once. Forever after that, all you need is the ID number.
>>>>
>>>> It's like how supermarket loyalty cards work. They record who
>>>> you are in their database when you sign up and they give you
>>>> the card with a unique ID. From then on, all they do is scan
>>>> the card with that ID and they know who you are.
>>>
>>> With ubiquitous RFID, a supermarket could create "loyalty cards"
>>> without even having to issue them or admit having them.  When you
>>> buy something, they record the ID numbers of RFID items you have
>>> on you other than their merchandise.  These might be in your
>>> driver's license, credit cards, pants, shoes, wallet, etc. and the
>>> store doesn't really have to care WHAT they are on.
>>>
>>> To avoid thinking you are a different person every time you change
>>> pants, items seen together often are linked together as being the
>>> same person.  The first time they see your driver's license and
>>> credit card.  The next time they see the credit card and your new
>>> wallet.  The next time they see your new wallet and your running
>>> shoes.  Now all of these are grouped together in one record.  Pretty
>>> soon they've got a pretty good inventory list of the RFID items you
>>> sometimes carry with you.  Some adjustment might be used to account
>>> for shared clothing or gifts (which means they can track who you
>>> share stuff with).
>>>
>>> If they even once accept payment in the form of a check or credit
>>> card, they've got your name, account number, and maybe an address
>>> or phone number.  Now consider what happens when half of the
>>> stores in a given city share this info with each other.

>> What?  They find out that you've been buying aluminum foil from all
>> of them?

> They have enough info to steal your identity and
> charge up a storm on your credit cards, even if you
> never used your credit cards in any of those stores.

Just another of your silly little paranoid conspiracy theorys.

If you're that mindlessly paranoid, use cash.

> And don't say identity theft is a
> "mindless paranoid conspiracy".  It's real.

Not like that it aint, its just another of your mindless luddite fantasys.