More RFID nightmares: Human 00000000000001

Opinion
Nov 3, 20051 min

As the government announced its mandate of RFID-chips on passports, one of my online security colleagues, Ted Richardson, wrote a well-researched blog about RFID chips used for tracking human activity. This is scary stuff. Worse, however, is the implantation of RFID chips into humans, which the government quietly approved in October, and which people are experimentally using to put their medical information and entertainment preferences on. No encryption, so anyone with an RFID reader could grab our personal information to become us, which I wrote about in one of my own blogs. How do we stop this train???

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Deb Radcliff is an investigative journalist and analyst focused on computer crime and security. Her work has appeared on Security Boulevard, the SANS Cyber Security Blog, and SC Media, among other outlets. She stood up an analyst program for SANS Institute and ran it for 15 years before joining the Cyber Risk Alliance as strategic analyst on the business intelligence unit. She is author of the popular cyber thriller series, “Breaking Backbones,” available at Amazon.

Deb won two Neal Awards for investigative business reporting. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Jose State University.

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