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Story: ID chips pressed into laundered clothes

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 1 February 2006, 9:08 PM)

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Hmmm Lets see how many ways you can fraud this. Ok first, Say you buy two pieces of clothing. One is very expensive and the other is not. You could take the chip from the inexpensive one and put it in the other one. When you take it back they will just do the radio frecuency thing (unless they are the one in a million cashiers that arent lazy) and you will get the ammount you paid for your expensive one. Vwa La !
Second, Since it only has a plastic covering in the store you could just put a good amount of pressure on the chip and Vwa La ! Then after that all you have to worry about is if your a good shop lifter.
Honestly I think this is an expensive and useless thing that people think will work just because its has something to deal with technology.
Oh and about the washermachine thing that recognizes the clothes. Did they even think about that you could be wearing clothing with the chip. What if what you want to wash is very delicate and what you are wearing is something normal. The washer could recognize yours and set it to wash normal and not delicate. Vwa La ! and that would suck.
They just need to wait till it has less flaws and better everything.
Johnny B

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