Hardly over-blown: it would be much easier to install a RFID sensor on a curb or at the gate to a parking garage and track vehicles than it would be to get a clean shot of the license plat and do OCR on it later. Also, you run into a similar idea with passports; rigging a bomb to explode when the correct tag was in close proximity. The argument is this requires much less gear and is much cheaper than any other way of fingerprinting a car.
If the tags fall into easily identifiable groups, such as by year or by area of distribution, that is also a concern. An attacker could notice if a tire from a batch that was delivered to the USA showed up in Iraq and trigger an "improvised explosive device".
For the record, Michelin has been putting RFID chips in tires for years now...
So what does it take before people get concerned? Round up all the handicap and Gypsy's? Or maybe we need 24/7 satellite tracking of everyone on the planet? Any amount of tracking, watching, surveying, logging, or collecting information about the whereabouts of citizens should be closely examined - this is where it starts.
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Hardly over-blown: it would be much easier to install a RFID sensor on a curb or at the gate to a parking garage and track vehicles than it would be to get a clean shot of the license plat and do OCR on it later. Also, you run into a similar idea with passports; rigging a bomb to explode when the correct tag was in close proximity. The argument is this requires much less gear and is much cheaper than any other way of fingerprinting a car.
If the tags fall into easily identifiable groups, such as by year or by area of distribution, that is also a concern. An attacker could notice if a tire from a batch that was delivered to the USA showed up in Iraq and trigger an "improvised explosive device".
For the record, Michelin has been putting RFID chips in tires for years now...
So what does it take before people get concerned? Round up all the handicap and Gypsy's? Or maybe we need 24/7 satellite tracking of everyone on the planet? Any amount of tracking, watching, surveying, logging, or collecting information about the whereabouts of citizens should be closely examined - this is where it starts.
I think tinfoil comes in 50 meter rolls now :D