I suspect we're reaching a point where the line is getting blurry, with the main distinction being that most world governments have been good about restricting access to explosive precursors and monitoring purchases so IEDs have a higher failure rate since they do not generally have military grade explosives, military grade electronics, or access to the vast body of knowledge on how to blow shit up that most armies have.
Which is one of the reasons the US president's motorcade includes broad-spectrum radio jammers. If you can get enough access to read the target RFID, couldn't you just plant a device then, rather than a roadside device?
You might only have access when the vehicle is moving on the road. The observer notes the time whenever a military vehicle goes by. After you've logged a few military vehicles, you retrieve the logs, match them up to the observer's time stamps, and now you've got a list of targets for your roadside RFID based bomb. Knowing the target RFID doesn't mean proximate access. You might, say, attack a hardened, highly secured, professionally maintained electronic data system.
Say the integrated business operations system of a large nationwide tyres-service company. Pull off the RFID and owner data. Apply information as, where, and when desired. And this is why, boys and girls, data are liability. ChuckMcM on Jan 9, parent prev next [—]. And yes they were all unique. Some folks at UC Berkeley built an RFID reading device you could put by the side of a one lane road like an on-ramp and read the tires from it. From a traffic analysis standpoint it would be much more effective than those hoses they put across the road to measure cars going by.
Why would that be much more effective? ChuckMcM on Jan 10, root parent next [—]. The hose system tells you total traffic but unless you have two of them you don't know what direction the cars are going. Also it can't tell how cars "flow" so where cars enter the measured area and where they exit. Traffic planners need flow to understand if "express" lanes would help for example. It would be pretty handy for tire manufacturers to know where best to place their adverts. I believe it is the inevitable outcome of the "Internet of Things" meets the "identification of things".
Today a number of police departments have red light cameras the give no tickets. So you might wonder why they are still there. As it turns out they do an excellent job of watching your license plate go through an intersection and recording that on a server. Add that to police cars with their own license plate readers and GPS and you end up with a cloud of data points, with time and GPS information for places in a city where a license plate has appeared.
That provides a very valuable database for law enforcement, if you know a car was used during a robbery, poof you know where that car as been, so you are one up on the robbers. Even if the license plate was stolen or the car stolen, you have it from the point the plate was stolen to the present.
The ALCU has been trying to get statements about how long this data is kept and how it is accessed. Today you can recognize faces with machines better than you can with humans. A camera can take pictures and store the face data with no other personally identifiable information, and yet when you suspect someone of something you plug in their face data and "poof" you get all the cameras that have seen them and when.
Recent laws about trying to protect this sort of abuse not withstanding. Storage is cheap, 32 bit CPU chips are free, HD cameras are cheap, and software radios can build white-space mesh networks on demand. When you lay a grid of these passive technologies around town, it will become the most powerful tool humans have ever invented for keeping track of, or locating, other humans of interest. The fun part is that private citzens can play too, anyone can put together a fleet of cameras recognizing faces and license plates with a Raspberry Pi 2.
Not something you would do on a lark but certainly within reach of someone who could profit from the information. When your car has a license plate and there are ANPR cameras all over the city The tracking horse has long since bolted.
How is anyone able to steal cars anymore with those cameras? Presumably by removing the license plate in an alley. Are those readers even used to catch stolen cars? And disconnecting a GPS lead isn't hard. How is that "most cars worth stealing"? The tracking potential is very low for tire RFID tags because every tire as well as every car has some sort of visual identification.
However, the main advantage I see is that you can very easily find out who dumps used tires in a river or in the woods. So they would burn them instead now. An RFID is just a unique serial number no real different to a barcode or a written serial no, just it can be read easier and generally matched to a UID on a maintenance database or suchlike Yes the manufacturer can also store encrypted data on one but I honestly cannot figure out how an external party could abuse this system.
It really doesn't take very much creativity to abuse this system. How about a database of who bought each tire cross referenced to a monitoring strip in the road to see who is going where?
How about that monitoring strip being in the entrance to every fast food joint, restaurant, store, mall, etc - now you can track drivers just like we track browsers. Since we have your name, we can cross reference your driving and browsing history. And if you put a video camera in a strategic location you can capture every license plate that pass by This is exactly what I was thinking. As much as these RFIDs seem like a privacy issue, a license plate is already there and in many ways a more accessible way to track a vehicle.
Especially now that state governments have redesigned the plates to be more easily read by OCR. That is not the same. There is no need for computer vision or any kind of expensive computing. Also it is far easier to abuse by evil civilians. Consider the overhead of installing a high enough quality video camera on a public road for a criminal compared to an Rfid reader. Install readers around Thugs HQ. While the parent comment was definitely lacking in creativity, a unique RFID in each tire isn't terribly different from a unique barcode on each tire.
I'd honestly be surprised if most products I own didn't have one of those. A barcode or an RFID tag? The only reason most of your products don't have an RFID tag is that barcodes are much cheaper, and the entire logistics chain - from manufacturing to retail - is already pretty well optimized around those. There is not much value to gain.
About the only use for passive radio tags I've seen widely deployed is theft prevention, and half of the times the tags are removed at the counter and later reused. A barcode. More: Tires that patch their own holes? According to an article from December on AutomotiveIQ: "RFID has the potential to bring increased efficiencies to tire production and logistics processes — including gathering of significantly increased amounts of data.
RFID technology in tires has been used for years, but not for government tracking. Industry publications state the technology is used to improve "efficiencies to tire production" as well as for fleet management purposes.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Finally, stock levels can be checked more efficiently by reading the tire data quickly, and the need for new tires can hence be adjusted more easily. What is now taking hold in the car business has long been reality in the truck industry.
Especially in the logistics industry, RFID technology has established itself as a perfect tool for checking the flow of goods and for effective tire management. So, frequently requested single-variety delivery can be ensured. Potential complaints and transparent inventory management may also be tracked better via simplified tracking by means of RFID.
In the future, this would allow proof of recycling to stakeholders, increasing the recycling rate or improving the efficiency of the energy recovery process. Magazine Current Issue Past Issues. Connect with us. Advertise Subscribe Contact Us. By Tire Review Staff.
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