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RFID: Why you may need tinfoil trousers
« on: February 20, 2005, 05:26:41 AM »

by Jo Best
And other niceties of data privacy for business...

Microsoft has told people worried about the tracking capabilities of RFID chips to wrap themselves in tin foil.

Speaking yesterday at Microsoft's IT Forum in Copenhagen, Steve Riley, security programme manager at Microsoft, said consumers will have to be proactive if they want to 'kill' the RFID tracking tags when they leave a store - and he joked about the possible ways to do it.

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This came to me while chopping wood the other day. You've heard don't sweat the small stuff. I say save it for later and use it for kindling