Looks like someone is already onto this: www.rfid-shield.com
Posted on 07/23/2010 2:37:58 PM PDT by deport
RFID scanners aren’t selective, but which RFIDs they understand is, unless you think Michigan is going to give WalMart the decoding methods to their RFIDs. It would be like scanning your gym barcode at the grocery store, their barcode reader can read the barcodes but it doesn’t know what that barcode means so it ignores it.
Just get all your friends to help you save up about 1000 of them, take them back into the store and hide them under a stack at the bottom of the jeans counter, and watch the fun begin!
Too funny, but I would bet that running these tags over the scanner de-activates them.
However, now that they have told us that they can track sizes purchased and in inventory, we can start a game called “switch the security tags” and really watch the fun begin.
In the future, once everybody forgets about thes things and stops smashing them with rocks etc, they'll become part of usual marketing activities.
People entering a stadium will be silently scanned and a tally of what type of jeans being worn will be created. If it is shown that an overwhelming majority are “Wrangler” brand, Levis will pay for a commercial to be run during half time on the jumbotron. If most people are already wearing Levis, they won't buy the commercial.
This sort of activity will go on throughout your life, as most products will be RFID equipped. Or so the marketing people hope.
While this isn't really that invasive, I'm somewhat happy that I'll probably be gone before things progress to that point.
The dust-up has to be that it because it is Wal-Mart.
Grocery stores have been putting these on booze for years.
Retailers too. They set off anti-theft alarms if not
deactivated.
Have you ever seen a clerk rub the tag on a raised surface at checkout?
They are deactivating the tag.
I don’t think it will be used to scan a cart for checkout either.
Shoplifting becomes too easy. Buy 10 things, cut a couple of tags on the expensive items and off you go.
You can deactivate the licenses with an X-Aacto blade.
Doing so will probably carry a fined, though.
This is such a total non-issue. If it were any UNION company it would be applauded as innovation.
Unless you have the tool to install those pesky little plastic tag umbilical cords, it's hard to switch tags. The only thing this might help with is to inventory items that have left the store without passing the register scanner.
yeah, but unless you pay for everything with cash, retailers have been collecting data on you for years now!!
I’ve noticed at Kroger’s that you don’t get the in-store deals unless you use their Shopper’s card. And the savings can be huge if you do.
The concern here is not the tag, but the readers.. those readers will be able to also read your Nexes passes , and’ smart drivers licenses ‘used to pass into canada instead of a pass port. the imbedded material on the Nexes and drivers licenses contain private info that could be used in identity theft
We have no way of knowing who will have those readers in their hands ...
The info is supposed to be protected by the sheath you keep it in, but I bet lots of folks do not bother with the sheath ..and the next step will be to have a reader that sees “through” them
Meth chefs buying mass quantities of cold pills will be tracked as well.
I bought a new gas BBQ with a grill in the side and it was all of $49.
Most all their genes go for no more than $9-15.
Most of what you say can be avoided by the checkers being even half trained.
yep... I opt-in for that kind of tracking. Food Lion has some great deals with their MVP card :)
tip - I have never turned in the “application” form for said savings cards anywhere.
Everybody buying any amount of sudafed is already being tracked.
Looks like someone is already onto this: www.rfid-shield.com
“Microwaves work nicely... “
You can make a dandy little RFID zapper out of a disposable camera.
That reminds me of something I read about
a law suit by a woman that stepped on one
of the sticky ones that some one had taken
off of something and throw it on the floor.
She set off the theft alarm leaving the store.
She was eventually strip-searched before
they found the tag on her shoe.
She won.
I was going to give some other hints to evade being found, if you don’t have your tinfoil hat on, but it looks like you are up on your tactics.
it says they are REMOVABLE smart tags - so once the item is bought, the customer can remove it. I don’t see a problem and the hysteria.
If you couldn’t remove it, that would be an entirely different matter.
I posted this same thing before I saw your post.
Step 1: Steal underpants.
Step 2:........
Step 3: Profit.
Everything I needed to know about business, I learned from the underpants gnomes.....
South Park Underpants Gnomes Profit Clip (Warning: crude language)
I agree with your vision of the future. While not necessarily evil, it is the inevitable progress of technology being applied anywhere we can imagine a use for it.
Your post reminds me of a news article from a few years ago indicating that a company had developed technology that allowed them to detect what radio stations drivers were listening to through some sort of antenna-tuning measurement. The idea was that electronic billboard-advertisers would pay to target certain groups based on the predominant market group sampled in real-time. Cool and creepy all at the same time...
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