So, WRT that robber, sounds like the technology was used fairly & well
indeed, don't you think so?

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


On (19 Jul 06) Bob Ackley wrote to George Pope...

 BA> Replying to a message of George Pope to Steve Asher:
 BA>
 BA>  GP> Posting this in this echo implies you don't believe there can be
 BA> ANY
 BA>  GP> benign or positive application of this technology. . .
 BA>
 BA>  GP> Is that so?
 BA>
 BA> Not WRT people.  Those who need or want to carry such ID can do so on
 BA> a chain
 BA> around their neck.  I have a major problem with chipping infants (and
 BA> that's what's
 BA> coming) shortly after birth and using that chip to keep track of them
 BA> throughout their
 BA> life.  Right now it's voluntary.  Before much more time passes it will
 BA> become
 BA> mandatory as the government encourages employers and businesses
 BA> (especially banks,
 BA> which are directly under federal supervision) to use them to ID
 BA> employees and
 BA> customers.
 BA>
 BA> Right now the technology exists - and is used - to ID every single
 BA> product item in
 BA> commerce, down to individual cans of vegetables or soda pop.  Not just
 BA> the
 BA> ubiquitous bar code that identifies the manufacturer and the product
 BA> but a chip that
 BA> identifies the specific item - even if there are millions of them
 BA> made.
 BA>
 BA> A bank robber in Omaha was recently caught using this RFID technology.
 BA>  Seems he
 BA> wrote his note on a scrap of a cardboard product box and left it at
 BA> the bank.  That
 BA> scrap had the tiny spy chip in it and the police used it to find (a)
 BA> the manufacturer,
 BA> (b) when and where it was manufactured and where it went from the
 BA> maker, and (c)
 BA> the store the item was sold in.  Then they went to the store, reviewed
 BA> its computer
 BA> records and found the specific date and time - to the second - that
 BA> the product
 BA> was sold and on which register.  From there they reviewed the store's
 BA> security camera
 BA> records and got a picture of the robber, which the bank tellers were
 BA> able to recognize
 BA> despite the diguise he'd used at the bank.  The whole process took
 BA> only a couple of hours.
 BA> Had he used a check or credit card to pay for the merchandise they
 BA> could have been
 BA> waiting at his house for him to come home.
 BA>
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