Keep my fettuccini out of the microwave.

George at Orwellian.Org George at Orwellian.Org
Thu Feb 15 18:55:47 PST 2001


(wired link http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar01/schmidt.asp)

Good? Bad? Useful for both, as usual...

http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=23175&pod_id=13

----

#   Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, June 1994 issue
#
#   The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S.
#   Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research called "Embedded Electronic
#   Fingerprint" to develop a transponder the size of a grain of wheat that
#   could be attached to a garment until the owner threw it out.
#
#   Heretofor, this application has been considered only for security purposes.
#
#   The definition of "security", according to the textile industry magazine
#   'Bobbin', has been expanded to include "anti-counterfeit" tracking after
#   purchase. [What???]
#
#   Could a machine-readable tag on a person's clothing serve many of the same
#   tracking purposes an one embedded in the body?






More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list