Comments on: RFID gets a reality check

At Baltimore pow-wow, hype over new electronic tracking technology is tempered by concerns about cost, privacy and quality.

[Razzl]

Common sense will cut a path

First, to address the bureaucrat's point:

""Taxpayers should be happy I'm managing supplies with RFID," Defense Department official Alan Estevez said. "I don't want to discount people's concerns, but I think they're overblown."

Taxpayers will decide this, thank you. If we're concerned we're entitled to put limits on this, and your job is to salute, end of story. John Ashcroft thinks the Bill of Rights addresses overblown concerns...

As for the future of RFID, using it in a commonsense way from the beginning is the way to have a future for this technology. The public has no problem with RFID on warehouse-to-store packaging such as palettes and containers, so that area is good to go. As for RFID on the retail pieces, putting the devices on the removable tags and boxes should alleviate almost all public concerns. It's the wackos who want to RFID the items so they can track us for marketing that will get the whole concept in trouble, so don't go there and you won't generate controversy.

RFID HACKWAY

I sure hope the black hats come up with something fast to battle the RFID movement. This is one TROJAN HORSE concept RFID plan. I note that this is not on the main stream news but only for the small precent of us know about the rfid movement. I say to all you who oppose this conquest of walmart the machine to inform every one you know although they will not believe this intrusive. Write your local paper and give them key terms and tell them how EPIC this story is. Do what you have to before this chip is under your skin persa or not persa, I know I will get me a tagzapper to burst the chip. Stop them, ZombieWire

[douglaslau]

Question on RFID

Have read the potential benefits of RFID on the retail stores. But what I understand is that gangs of shoplifters are using something to block the radio frequency so that the sensor is unable to detect the goods and alarm. Fortunately, ro unfortunately, they are all targeting for high value products and brand names. What would RFID help in such situation? If RFID doesn't cater for such scenario, then what is the value of RFID to high street shops?

The other thing is security. You may track on the products for, maybe, JIT and inventory control. But the others may make use of it to reveal the location for storage and the business operation data. How we can avoid the leakage of the confidential information through RFID?