Why Is RFID Always In The Firing Line?

Filed in archive Privacy and Security on March 27, 2006

RFID seems to be a soft target these days. A group of more than 20 interest groups which includes physicians, tax reformers, privacy advocates and others have decided that RFID has no place in an emerging in an emerging federal standard that would make state driver's licenses more secure. The group in a letter to DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff claimed that RFID technology is changing too quickly, costs a lot and is prone to security breaches.

Certainly these charges seem to be unconvincing. As far as the changes regarding technology are concerned, we must understand that since it is a new technology improvements are bound to take place. As far as the price is concerned, every new technology is costly at the beginning but with the wider adoption over a period of time it becomes cheaper. Finally, coming on to the security part until and unless security protections are used no technology in this world would be safe.

If somebody could offer them some brains!!!!

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Response from: Chris Kapsambelis (03/27/06 10:43am)

I do not understand why the addition if RFID will make a Driver’s License more secure. My license has my picture and two bar codes, and I periodically read in the local press that teenagers are buying liquor using a fake Driver’s License. If they can fake them now, adding RFID will not stop them. Barcode printers are now being made to encode RFID chips. I think we should wait until the government perfects the use of RFID on Passports before we spend a lot of money foolishly on Driver’s Licenses.

Response from: Bruce (03/28/06 7:51pm)

Look, there's no big mystery about why RFIDs are very controversial. You're running a blog here, why don't you just link directly to the critics? You've got brains -- so why leave your industry readers to get blindsided by political activists? Stop spinning, and get right down in the trenches.

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Response from: Dave Piasecki (03/29/06 6:52am)

Any technology that is hyped as much as RFID has been in recent years is going to attract critics. That’s just natural. In my case, even though I see many advantages of RFID, the over hyping and misrepresentation of RFID by its proponents forces me to become a critic just to provide a little balance. The fact is RFID does have some technical challenges, is not going to make bar codes extinct, and is a legitimate privacy concern. I wouldn’t have to constantly point this out if RFID proponents provided an accurate assessment of the technology.

So its your fault.

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