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RFID scare? Blame the media

Journalists “screw up” health story… trust business to fix the problem, says business blogger. (RFID tags didn’t cause his heart attack. But arphids can make matters worse. Photo: Daubentonia) from...

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Snap! Setback for makers of RFID shield

RFID privacy sleeve-maker Identity Stronghold this week learned from NASA that the metal claps holding workers’ IDs in place can pop-out, damaging eyeballs, potentially, or delicate, space-bound...

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Charge cards give way to RFID phones

Photo: Courtesy of MasterCard From my Boston Globe column this week, MasterCard says any bank can now issue computer codes, rather than cards, to consumers.–mb I usually tap my RFID-chipped Citizens...

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Coming soon: Mark Baard's "Fret Level"

No one is immune from the fret agenda. CC/Kerys I’m starting this week on a new site for my new show, “Fret Level.” And when I read stories like this one, from the Las Vegas Sun (excerpt, link, below),...

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Welcome to Parallelnormal

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Google + P&G = RFID + data mining

Parallelnormal is not encouraged by the companies’ new innovation-idea-swapping agreement. All in it together. CC/Kenneth Lu This item (excerpt, link, below) is about more than a cross-cultural...

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"Unforgeable" ID cards hacked in minutes

Classic: New ID cards are supposed to be ‘unforgeable’ – but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data Adam Laurie is no ordinary hacker. In the world of computing,...

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Haitian priests fear thousands of zombies, Reuters reports

The news agency reports the undead will seek revenge, for their hasty burials: Dumping the dead in hurriedly excavated mass graves without proper rites is seen as desecration in a country where many...

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Want to search the internet of things?

Google’s got it covered: The company recently joined the Internet Protocol Smart Object Alliance: The IPSO alliance now boasts 53 member companies, including Bosch, Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, SAP, Sun...

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New tech tracks you to the tomb – The Boston Globe

From my Globe column this week: “Talk about function creep. A new product, the RosettaStone (www.personalrosettastone.com), guarantees that RFID will follow you straight to your grave. The...

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