/. [You Need Not Be Paranoid To Fear RFID]
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/10/0643235 Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-10-10 10:32:00 An anonymous reader writes A story at the Boston Globe [1]covers extensive privacy abuses involving RFID. From the article: Why is this so scary? Because so many of us pay for our purchases with credit or debit cards, which contain our names, addresses, and other sensitive information. Now imagine a store with RFID chips embedded in every product. At checkout time, the digital code in each item is associated with our credit card data. From now on, that particular pair of shoes or carton of cigarettes is associated with you. Even if you throw them away, the RFID chips will survive. Indeed, Albrecht and McIntyre learned that the phone company BellSouth Corp. had applied for a patent on a system for scanning RFID tags in trash, and using the data to study the shopping patterns of individual consumers. I think they may be going a little overboard with their stance, but it's always interesting to talk about. References 1. http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/10/10/you_need_not_be_paranoid_to_fear_rfid?mode=PF - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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- Forwarded message from Sam Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Sam Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:53:51 +0900 To: Peer-to-peer development. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [p2p-hackers] Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems Organization: NeuroGrid http://www.neurogrid.net/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peer-to-peer development. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [CALL FOR PAPERS] The First International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2006) is the first workshop which focuses on dependability and sustainability of P2P systems, with respect to their designs, operations, applications and social impacts. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) can be a promising technology on which we can depend lives of ours and our children, upon which we can build sustainable societies. Designs of P2P systems are characterized by their usage of overlay networks such that there is symmetry in the roles among participants. This implies distribution of authorities, not only preventing introduction of single points of failure, but also assuring a level of autonomy which allows many of us to spontaneously start, maintain, or recover from failures of, such systems. Although difficulties exist, such as uncertainty in the trust among participants, one needs to be aware that such difficulties are, in many parts, due to our own human nature; depending on P2P is, in fact and literally, depending on ourselves and our friends, which seem to be the only ones we can trust anyway, when it comes to our own survival. The goal of this workshop is to share experiences, insights and new ideas, and set forth research agendas and suggestive future directions by collaborations among researchers with different disciplines and with similar interests toward dependability and sustainability. The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant topics: ** Designs and operations of dependable and sustainable P2P systems - Self-organization and emergence - Attack-resistance - Fault tolerance - Sustainable operations - Sustainable mutual trust - Sustainable reciprocal relationships ** Applications and social impacts of dependable and sustainable P2P systems - Sustainable economy - Sustainable governance - Sustainable lifestyles - Rescue activities - Post-catastrophic recovery - Tackling environmental problems The program of the workshop will be a combination of invited talks, paper presentations and discussions. [SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS] The workshop invites your contributions of previously unpublished papers, which will be selected based on their originality, technical merit and topical relevance. Papers will also be selected by the likelihood that they will lead to interesting and fruitful discussions at the workshop. Your contributions should be formatted acoording to the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines: 10-point Times, single-spaced, two-column format (see http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/IEEE/Format/instruct.htm for detail). Each of your contributions should not exceed 8 pages. See the workshop web site (http://das-p2p.wide.ad.jp/) for the submission procedure. [PUBLICATION] Proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. [IMPORTANT DATES] Paper submission due: December 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: January 15th, 2006 Camera-ready copies due: February 1st, 2006 Author registration due: February 1st, 2006 Workshop: April 20th-22nd, 2006 (exact date is to be decided) [REGISTRATION] Workshop registration will be handled by the ARES 2006 organization along with the main conference registration. [ORGANIZING COMMITTEE] Program co-chairs: Yusuke Doi Communication Platform Laboratory, Corporate RD Center, TOSHIBA Corporation 1 Komukai-Toshiba-Cho, Saiwai-Ku, Kawasaki Kanagawa 212-8582 Japan Youki Kadobayashi Graduate School of Information Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology Takayama 8916-5, Ikoma Nara 630-0192 Japan Kenji Saito (main contact) Graduate School of Media and Governance Keio University 5322 Endo, Fujisawa Kanagawa 252-8520 Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PROGRAM COMMITTEE] See the workshop web site (http://das-p2p.wide.ad.jp/). - ___ p2p-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ___ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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RNC and White House confess Harriet Miers intended as CRONY for the Supreme Court
TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MIERS AT http://www.trotn.com/miers.htm Faced with growing opposition even from their own, the Republican National Committee and the White House held a joint mobilizing conference call to rally their most reactionary supporters behind Harriet Miers, their get out of conviction on appeal free card. The point was to assure them that her votes on the Supreme Court were already predetermined. Here is a typically chilling quote from the transcript of that sesssion: He and she [the president and Miers] both understand that if she were to get on the court, and she were to rule in ways that are contrary to the way the president would want her to approach her role as a justice, it would be a deep personal betrayal, and would be perceived as such both by him and by her. This is absolutely nothing more than a patently crony nomination, and is perceived by even its proponents as exactly that and being sold as such. It is a matter of the utmost urgency that you communicate to your senators that this nomination is not worthy of any consideration at all on that basis alone. As if our members of Congress had not sold the people so far down the river already, do we really need ANOTHER hardcore administration loyalist on our Supreme Court? TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MIERS AT http://www.trotn.com/miers.htm We all know how much the reactionaries love their talking points. Here are ours: 1) NO BUSH CRONY EVEN DESERVES A HEARING Have we not seen the disaster wrought by installation of hardcore administration cronies in positions of the highest responsibility? Must our Supreme Court go the way of New Orleans? There are many jobs in this world where you have to qualify to even GET a job interview. Surely a seat on our Supreme Court is one of them. Some say they need to hear what she has to say. That is just more of the same surrender babble, and is based on two false premises, that we don't ALREADY know where Miers stands, and that she will disclose anything meaningful under examination. There is nothing coming but another Roberts' style stonewall, and for all those reasons we say NO HEARING. 2) THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DEMAND A MODERATE It's time to fight for what we really want on principle. It's time for those who would presume to represent us to take up that fight. And the American people will tolerate NO MORE extremist far right appointees to our Supreme Court. Every day Bush's popularity rating sinks to a new record low. It is only his totally corrupt party caucus, now with a temporary majority in the House of Representatives, that has prevented the initiation of impeachment proceedings already for his incompetence and malfeasance. We the people demand that any further nominees be no worse than true MODERATES. That's our position and we're sticking to it. AND SPEAK OUT FOR REAL ELECTION REFORM Is there anybody who would want to be elected by cheating? Then why should not everybody want to support real voting reform, so we can make sure all votes are always counted accurately and reliably. Rush Holt has introduced a bill (HR 550) which would make sure that's what happens from now on. TAKE ACTION NOW AT http://www.trotn.com/hr550.htm The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (HR 550) (1) establishes a requirement for a voter verified paper ballot created for every vote cast; (2) establishes a mandatory uniform national standard that states that the voter verified paper ballot -- the only record verified by the voter rather than the voting machine -- is the vote of record in the case of any inconsistency with electronic records; (3) provides Federal funding to pay for implementation of voter verified paper balloting; (4) requires a percentage of mandatory random audits in every state, and in each county, for every Federal election; (5) prohibits use of undisclosed software, wireless communication devices, and internet connections in voting machines; (6) is required to be fully implemented by 2006; and (7) protects the accessibility mandates of the Help America Vote Act. The one click action page above has now been fully dedicated to the message that we will not tolerate any more funny business in our elections. Vote now by sending a message to our members of Congress that we need these long overdue reforms, so that we will actually have a chance to really vote in the future. TAKE ACTION NOW AT http://www.trotn.com/hr550.htm or to get no more simply email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
