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    By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips

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    Image of Adam Simon Adam Simon
    10/03/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    Wow, way to spread the FUD.

    The passive RFID tags used in clothing provide just a serial number of the item, not anything personally revealing. Plus if you forget to cut them out, one trip through the drier will nuke them beyond useable.

    Your clothes are really the least of your RFID worries. Let's talk about the RFID tags in US passports, which *do* contain personal information and *are* verifiably insecure.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/04/09

    @Adam Simon: plus they're passive, so they only emit when you pass next to a reader, which is not as inexpensive as a tag
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10/03/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    "By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips"

    Maybe yours will, but mine won't. I don't even have a cellphone.
    -Kle.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/03/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    Aaaaand I'll be microwaving my clothing after purchase now, thanks. :/
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    Image of Adah Adah
    10/02/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    I'm assuming the US Army already has my uniforms tagged in every way imagineable. And that my Anthrax and Smallpox vaccines were probably some form of mind control.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/04/09

    @Adah: I don't think the military makes such a fuss about their dog tags. Just think of it as the same but in many places.
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    10/02/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    Of course American Apparel uses them. So now you can wear over priced faux retro clothing modeled by heroin addicted 16 year olds and be followed be Skynet.
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    10/02/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    ...Why? So it'll update out Twitter account automatically whenever we enter a trendy nightclub?

    I swear, didn't people used to think the government would have to force us to use these things?
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    10/03/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a twitter.
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    10/03/09

    @schrodingers-katana: +1.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    10/02/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    Who's got two thumbs and will be buying all of his clothes vintage in the future? This guy.

    As I said the night I walked into a Wal-Mart at 3AM coming down off shrooms when I noticed the motion sensing lights in the freezer section: "I'm not ready for the f**king future yet!"

    Then I kicked the hell out of a stray cart, causing it to rebound to and fro off the doors (which, ironically, only reinforced my initial issue as it made more lights come on).

    Good times.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    10/02/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    I haven't worked in retail for quite some time, but those used to be stickers that peel off right!? Why are they attaching them to clothes if they have to cut off later, it doesn't make sense.

    I could see embedding one in clothes, especially kids clothing that makes them easier to track down if they get lost or kidnapped, but it seems stupid to sew it into the clothing so that you the consumer has to cut it out of your clothes.
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    Image of qwijybo qwijybo
    10/02/09

    In reply to By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips
    Not an issue isn't the world supposed to end before that.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    10/02/09

    @qwijybo: The RFID's they are putting into clothes are responsible for the 2012 catastrophe because the radio waves...mess with the magnetic ummm...poles...and...nevermind.
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