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Story: Apple and Nike don't toe security line
I just can't let this slide!
Ok, I NEVER respond this these things but this was so absurd I had to wite. This entire article and the researcher's premise was total junk science. I'm not even sure the writer here even read the orgional story.
But let me review, you need to be within the transmit distance about 30 feet. The idea that this transmits an ID is no different than your bluetooth headset, your cellphone, or just about any other wireless device. That's how they communicate ya know.
The way this is written you would think there was a way to track someone, and as you say, plot it on a google map. Well sure you can! AS long as you followed them around all day and took note of where you where in a spreadsheet or something! Seriously this is just crazy! If you have to be within 30 feet anyway what's the point yea know? Now you could set up some sniffers all over the city in a 30x30 foot grid and I suppose attach them to a cellular device to somehow signal you but...um...I think that would be pretty expensive and you would have a lot of unhappy home owners wondering what these things are stuck all over town.
I also loved the fear factor of "The message to Apple and Nike, though, is...any product or service that stores or communicates personal data is a security risk."
What personal data!?!?! Since when is a device ID personal data? Not only that, but since the researchers premise was that someone slipped one of these in your bag without you knowing, the ID is hardly personal,they already have that!
Since you can also do this with a car, remember cars have VIN numbers, and you can see it plain as day inside the window, and given you can you follow a person in their car, which also has about an even greater distance than 30 feet, it too is a hazard. Oh, wait...we have huge plates on our cars! Damn!
hey...slow news day...two week old story....enough said.
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