RFID Tags

As I was researching on the Homework topic, RFID tags, I found it very interesting that the information can be tracked. Wikipedia says that today the RFID is used to effeciency of inventory tracking and management. I feel as if this is alright, but it should not be placed on clothing items and soda cans. This is an invasion of privacy.

The attatched article states that RFID tags are being upgraded in order to become more intelligent. So sooner than later we will be hearing about more advanced RFID tags. The article also states that with the advancement of RFID tags, "enabling them to encrypt and decrypt data could make chips in passports or credit cards more secure".

At first I was a little scared of this technology because of the rising threat of identity theft, but because of the computational radio-frequency identifications tags, otherwise known as CRFID tags, it is becoming harder to hack into. This relates directly to the readings in chapter 3.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17616-rfid-tags-get-an-intelligence-upgrade.html

Below is a Youtube clip describing all aspects of the RFID tags.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7HEZ-Luy4&feature=related