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Monthly Archive for November, 2007
Boing Boing reports about RFID Guardian, a personal RFID firewall.
The Guardian is a personal device that operates by detecting the RFID tags on your person (keys, passport, bank cards) and jamming them so that they cannot communicate and answer queries anymore. If you prefer a network analogy, it’s a firewall for your RFID-accessible data.
It’s fascinating how media, being an extension to our bodies, require similar practices: people used to customize their computer and cellphones as they buy clothes for themselves, and now that RFID tags embody intimate/private details of our being, the need arises to create proper “underwear” for this data.
Good thing is, schematics for knitting this underwear is freely available and documented on a wiki ;)
a bit disappointed for not being in Berlin, but a bit relieved for being here too.
My Italian holidays are almost over, tomorrow I’ll fly back to London. My hometown this morning is already cloaked in mist, like it was forecasting in numb anticipation.
I spent so little time clackering these days, I feel a bit detox’d and a bit out of spin. Probably would be a good idea to try to get back on “track” in the next few days, maybe with one of the thousands of pet vaporware waiting in the dusty pages of wikis, google docs and email drafts.
Maybe the social news reading one.
But now it’s time for a shower and one more walk.
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