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Twilight of the Swampoid Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 15:08
Leutha Blissett

As database profiling of non/citizens grows increasingly pervasive and the dubious promise of 'techno-communism 2.0' haunts the blogosphere, real material differences will continue to sort the technologically ‘liberated’ from the dataslaves, declares Leutha Blissett


Oyster card hacked? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Friday, 25 January, 2008 - 21:42
Various

I had heard this week that an RFID card being developed for trial on Rotterdam's public transport system had been hacked, producing qualms about the security of all systems using RFID. However, according to the comment to the article below, the news turns out to be even more portentious for those in London, where an extremely unpopular Oyster card has existed for some time based on exactly the same Phillips manufactured 'MiFare' chip  

Re-posted from Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology.

subject: Science | Hacking | ID Cards | RFID

Defending Anonymity OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 9 July, 2007 - 20:30
Anarchist Federation

This Anarchist Federation analysis of the National (UK) ID Database, parts of which are already up and running with no need for cards, needs to be read as widely as possible.  A terrifying account of how much more than abstract 'privacy' is at stake, and FOR WHOM.


The Factory Without Walls Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 14 September, 2006 - 16:41
Brian Ashton

Wireless and social networking technologies depend on and help shape the global logistics industry. This worldwide supply chain ensures just-in-time production responds to consumer demand, whether it be books from Amazon or exhaust pipes for Jaguars.

If, contra to theorists of ‘immaterial labour’, the mass worker is not dead but reconfigured, will networked production and distribution see the rise of networked labour struggles?


Capturing the Photon Burp Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 5 July, 2004 - 23:00
Peter Carty

The era of quantum technology is dawning. With quantum computing set to smash our existing ciphers, quantum encryption is providing a new set of uncrackable codes. But are the new codes completely secure? asks Peter Carty

subject: Privacy | RFID | Wireless

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