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Tuesday, August 5, 2003

“Show me an activist who won’t buy the $5-tagged razors in favor of $10 untagged razors and I’ll show you an activist with a trust fund. … Personally, given the trade-off between being tracked and microwaving my new shorts, I think future shopping trips will end in my kitchen. … In a country like America, “Big Brother” is effective only if we let him. Will big corporations, or the government, try to ban personal RFID detectors (as they did with radar detectors)? Perhaps. Would we let them? We’ll see. ”

Some great letters to the editor at Salon.

What it takes to issue PIV-I credentials

How an organization gets certified to issue these high-assurance IDs

In the early days of finance in England, bankers would routinely write letters of introduction for customers so they could access credit in other parts of the world. “If you had an account in good standing with a bank in England you would be given a letter of introduction and when you sailed to the new world you would use it to get a loan,” says Jeff Nigriny, CEO at CertiPath.

German firm issues more than 1 million grid cards

SCHUFA, a German credit reporting agency, has issued more than 1 million grid cards from Entrust for multi-factor authentication to its consumer portal. SCHUFA and its customers rely on the Entrust IdentityGuard authentication platform and Entrust’s grid cards.

UPM completes sale of its RFID business

UPM’s sale of RFID business to SMARTRAC N.V. was completed on March 31 following clearance by all competent authorities. The RFID business consisting of three companies in Finland, the United States and China, has been transferred to the new owner.

GAO Gen 2 RFID reader with 4-port read and 4-port listen

GAO RFID Asset Tracking announced an ultra-high frequency Gen 2 RFID reader with 4-port read and 4-port listen.

This RFID reader, operating at the frequency range of 902 to 928 MHz, reads Gen 2 compatible transponders at a maximum distance of up to 7 meters or more. It also offers communication interfaces including Ethernet TCP/ IP, DHCP and HTTPS for data exchange.

Picture-based AdCAPTCHA software stops spam bots

San Diego-based Confident Technologies, a provider of image-based authentication and verification solutions for Web sites, has rolled out its Confident AdCAPTCHA, an image-based solution that stops spam and malicious bots on Web sites while providing site owners and online advertisers with an advertising channel to promote their companies.

Coachella rakes in more fans via RFID social media

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with help from Intellitix, an RFID technology provider for live events, added an online audience of more than 30 million last month when over 30,000 fans registered to “Live Click” around the festival site.

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