RFID Panopticon

Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
January 26, 2008

 

It’s sold in the Washington Post — the CIA’s favorite newspaper — as a wonderful world of convenience come true for consumers:

“RFID-enabled refrigerators could warn about expired milk, generate weekly shopping lists, even send signals to your interactive TV, so that you see ‘personalized’ commercials for foods you have a history of buying. Sniffers in your microwave might read a chip-equipped TV dinner and cook it without instruction… Companies say the RFID tags improve supply-chain efficiency, cut theft, and guarantee that brand-name products are authentic, not counterfeit. At a store, RFID doorways could scan your purchases automatically as you leave, eliminating tedious checkouts.”

Excuse me, but I’ll take the tedium.

The problem, critics say, is that microchipped products might very well do a whole lot more.

With tags in so many objects, relaying information to databases that can be linked to credit and bank cards, almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments, says Mark Rasch, former head of the computer-crime unit of the U.S. Justice Department.

 

By placing sniffers in strategic areas, companies can invisibly “rifle through people’s pockets, purses, suitcases, briefcases, luggage — and possibly their kitchens and bedrooms — anytime of the day or night,” says Rasch, now managing director of technology at FTI Consulting Inc., a Baltimore-based company.

In an RFID world, “You’ve got the possibility of unauthorized people learning stuff about who you are, what you’ve bought, how and where you’ve bought it … It’s like saying, ‘Well, who wants to look through my medicine cabinet?’”

He imagines a time when anyone from police to identity thieves to stalkers might scan locked car trunks, garages or home offices from a distance. “Think of it as a high-tech form of Dumpster diving,” says Rasch, who’s also concerned about data gathered by “spy” appliances in the home.

Forget identity thieves and stalkers — a distinct minority — and worry about the government using this technology, not to discover what’s in your medicine cabinet per se — by way of HIPAA and Section 215 of the Patriot Act, they may already know this — but rather to keep track of pesky enemies of the state, or would-be enemies of the state, the sort who actually believe they have a right to challenge the government, or even mildly petition it.

For autocrats, a world embedded with a constellation of ubiquitous RFID sensors would be ideal. “A Panopticon Singularity is the logical outcome if the burgeoning technologies of the singularity are funneled into automating law enforcement,” writes Charlie Stross. “Previous police states were limited by manpower, but the panopticon singularity substitutes technology, and ultimately replaces human conscience with a brilliant but merciless prosthesis.”

 

As Stross notes, the state will use this technology to go after the malcontents and troublemakers, but they will also use it against pedestrian criminals, those minus political persuasion:

If a panopticon singularity emerges, you’d be well advised to stay away from Massachusetts if you and your partner aren’t married. Don’t think about smoking a joint unless you want to see the inside of one of the labor camps where over 50% of the population sooner or later go. Don’t jaywalk, chew gum in public, smoke, exceed the speed limit, stand in front of fire exit routes, or wear clothing that violates the city dress code (passed on the nod in 1892, and never repealed because everybody knew nobody would enforce it and it would take up valuable legislative time). You won’t be able to watch those old DVD’s of ‘Friends’ you copied during the naughty oughties because if you stick them in your player it’ll call the copyright police on you. You’d better not spend too much time at the bar, or your insurance premiums will rocket and your boss might ask you to undergo therapy. You might be able to read a library book or play a round of a computer game, but your computer will be counting the words you read and monitoring your pulse so that it can bill you for the excitement it has delivered.

In a totalitarian society we “are all criminals,” or at least easy marks ready to be fleeced by a sociopathic elite.

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  1. Martin Timothy on January 27th, 2008

    “…Don’t jaywalk, chew gum in public, smoke, exceed the speed limit, stand in front of fire exit routes, or wear clothing that violates the city dress code.”

    Yes these things are important, of course when there is a news blackout from Iraq, and the last from there said B2 Bombers had been pounding Baghdad, and by last Thursday morning five hundred civilians had been killed overnight, since then nuthin’.

    “…You won’t be able to watch those old DVD’s of ‘Friends’ you copied during the naughty oughties because if you stick them in your player it’ll call the copyright police on you.”

    Kurt is probbly right about the CD’s too, sure the invasion of Afghanistan was carried out on false pretenses, 911 was an inside job, four thousand Jews took the day off from the WTC on the day, but the CD’s are gonna get copied anyways… let me tell you that.

    “…For autocrats, a world embedded with a constellation of ubiquitous RFID sensors would be ideal. “A Panopticon Singularity is the logical outcome if the burgeoning technologies of the singularity are funneled into automating law enforcement.”

    Sounds like Kurt had a dictionary for breakfast the day he wrote this… It doesna get anyone any closer to the truth though does it, if hard hitting well researched journalism is the answer, KN must have heard a different question.

  2. Gotcha on January 27th, 2008

    Hey Martin, you Fed, on who´s payroll are ya?

  3. watzen on January 27th, 2008

    DO NOT TAKE THE ID DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR INFO JUST DONT DO IT I WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE TAKE THE ID NOR WILL I GIVE UP AND I WILL CHEW GUM J WALK SMOKE A JOINT I WILL DO ANYTHING I WANT WHENEVER I WANT AND I WILL CARRY A GUN

  4. Surveillance Singularity « Children of the Lens, Seekers of Tomorrow on January 27th, 2008

    […] From TruthNews.us: For autocrats, a world embedded with a constellation of ubiquitous RFID sensors would be ideal. […]

  5. watzen on January 27th, 2008

    THE ANSWER IS IN NUMBERS JOIN THE REVOLUTION IF THERE PRISONS HOLD 50% OF THE POPULAS THEN WE NEED 75% TO STAND AND FIGHT JOIN NOW REMEMBER “UNITED WE STAND”

  6. carol on January 27th, 2008

    This well stated article is exactly why I do not: drive a car, have registration, pay property exemption taxes, have a bank account, bank card or any kind, have a credit card or store loyalty card, why I am in NO hurry to renew my state ID card, don’t have calling cards, etc. You get the idea.

    Cash only, shop at thrift stores and second hand shops, buy groceries from outlet stores, you get the idea. You are only trackable if you allow yourself to be.

  7. Jane Lee on January 27th, 2008

    Maybe they could make an anal chip to let me know when it’s time to take a crap and signal any undue flatulence.

  8. Doogie on January 27th, 2008

    We should chip all government employees as so we may track “their” every move. Then we’ll see legislation for privacy.

  9. John-EE on January 27th, 2008

    Not to mention that RFID chips have been shown to cause fast-growing, MALIGNANT TUMORS in lab animals.

  10. Choice? on January 27th, 2008

    Do you think you will have a choice? Economic Depression unlike the world has ever seen. Money will be worthless, you will not be able to feed yourself or your children… The only solution will be to take the chip. You wanna starve?

  11. CJ on January 27th, 2008

    Since most of my posts have either been removed or prevented in many forums lately, this is a test.
    As “Choice” said, there is a depression coming. But unlike the one before it in the history of this country, they had better remove guns from the population first before it gets to that stage. There will be another war, a war over food where you fight your neighbor first and the G second. That is unless you and your neighbor can come to terms and agree that you’re both fighting the same enemy. God forbid that should ever happen, cause then the G has got some serious shit coming. If ‘divide and conquer’ ever fails - we win.

  12. jon davis on January 27th, 2008

    “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.”

    Would I be jumping to conclusions if I suspected YouTube censorship?

  13. edisonoside on January 27th, 2008

    Loving and abiding by the system won’t be your savior. More and more illegalities will be added daily to their list. That list will grow with the up-comming enviralmental shortages. You will have as much freedom as a free range cow. You won’t miss freedom because you won’t know what it is.

  14. jim on January 27th, 2008

    ya martin, your senseless comment must be right out of your playbook eh?
    we already can see who makes sense & who does not,,,

  15. jdogg92056 on January 27th, 2008

    Did I mention that RFID chips really, really hate microwaves? Just can’t stand ‘em. Go figure.

  16. RL on January 27th, 2008

    Read Revelation 13:16-18

    v.16 “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forheads, v 17 “and that no one may buy or sell except on who has the mark or name of the beast, or the number of his name. v18 “Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”

  17. Rob on January 28th, 2008

    Absolutely no doubt it’s the mark of the beast. Which means it’s inevitable that it’s implemented on a large scale. It can’t be stopped. Simply try and work out what YOUR going to do when it’s here. It’s a matter of life and death. Stop fighting it. It’s the will of the gods. A lesson man must learn.

    We can’t stop the implementation, but we can destroy it once its here.

  18. 731 on January 28th, 2008

    Kurt may very well ate a dictionary for breakfast and sticking with the ad hominem theme I will suggest you get a dictionary and eat it quickly MT, your post made my dog throw up.

  19. James on January 28th, 2008

    Mark of the Beast!?!?!?!?! Too funny. When are you going to realize that the Bible including Revelations is contrived? Don’t accept this blatant abuse of you and your fellow humans as God’s will. What a wonderful excuse to lay down, let it happen, and then wait for Jesus’ second coming. Its not going to happen. Would you rather live on your knees or die on your feet? Its decision time.

  20. Mind Cooker on January 28th, 2008

    GO READ:

    IBM PATENT -
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,561,689
    Method and apparatus for digital carrier detection in a wireless lan by Arthur E. Fleek; October 1996.

    It references, contains and is based in part on:

    U.S. Pat. No. 5,159,703
    Silent Subliminal Communication System.

    Most minds are cheese by now….

  21. vincent ortega on January 28th, 2008

    I would rather die on my two feet then live on my knees.

  22. Martin Timothy on January 28th, 2008

    All this talk of the Antichrist, and the mark of the Beast… This next quote is from a publication titled Sword of Islam, it is a Docks Union publication that hit the streets in the nineties…

    http://www.dockersunion.com/we.....97_p1.html

    “… is called The Beast because of his brutal strength, his inhuman tolerance to pain and because of monstrous acts of violence he is reputed to have carried out. He is not a bad man, one argues brutal strength is useful aboard ship where the Docker earns his bread, tolerance to pain must be a matter of pride, and suppose he should argue that such violence as occurred was in self defense.

    The reformed FSPDU policy is that all members show evidence of current membership, thus baseball caps and hard hat stickers with the members union number are in use, thus Martin Timothy is number one, while the number of The Beast is 666. Thus Martin Timothy fulfills the prophesy of The Antichrist.”

    I dunno how your dog got crook 731, but I have a cat and he thinks …Martin Timothy is number one!!!

  23. raoul on January 31st, 2008

    Giday
    Your documentary talks about panopticon, actually two panopticon were built, according to Bertrand Russell, in his book Freedom and Organization, he sites one built in St Petersburg and the State of Illinois.
    Thank you Raoul

  24. Mike UK on February 1st, 2008

    Our fate in the US & UK has already been decided. All you can do is prepare yourselves by stockpiling canned foods etc. and making sure you have the means to defend yourselves. The government mantra here in the UK is ‘Nothing to fear, nothing to hide’ We all have private & personal things to hide like when we take a shit and when we have sex, and with whom. These are not things the goverments need to know or should want to know. THESE THINGS ARE PRIVATE!
    By the way, watch out for the launch of the GALILAO SATILITE SYSTEM, and try and find out who is at the top of the pyramid. Maybe then you’ll find the motives and the bad guys.

  25. T. on April 11th, 2008

    Satantic evil rulers plan to steal and take your soul.
    As Iron Maiden said:
    ” Run to the hills…..Run for your life…… ”
    Do not take the chip!!!
    Big brother is right around the corner and the new world order is on its way.

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