Monday, March 02, 2009

In the License?

Why don't we just cut to the chase and implant the chips in our hands or foreheads? [More]

Y'know, we never did hear back from Tommy Thompson, did we?

[Via Ron W]
Posted by David Codrea at 3/02/2009 12:09:00 PM

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I renewed my driver's license not long ago. It's good for 8 years. If at the end of 8 years, a chip, or mandatory biometrics or DNA sampling are waiting, the license I have will be the license I'll have. I believe other more pressing questions will have been answered by then anyway.

3/02/2009 12:45 PM
Anonymous said...

Yeah, I'd say this is the beginning of the Mark, but isn't there a way to defeat or destroy the chip?

At least, if one goes to a politically incorrect event or location, one can leave his license behind.

3/02/2009 1:01 PM
jon said...

this just goes to show you that scary-looking legislation is just a way to poke and prod until they find a way to sneak it by, couched in new-speak, and always for the children.

the vast outcry does their work for them, identifying what will never pass, and goading the statist sycophants into prevarication about what might perhaps be "reasonable," and could pass.

in an honorable fight, you would kill and kill quickly at the mere threat of aggression, allowing no opening for the regrouping of forces on better intelligence.

legislation and politics are just polite forms of this. they should be deal with accordingly. instead, for some reason, all those legislators just get voted back into their seats in the following election cycle.

3/02/2009 1:42 PM
Anonymous said...

I've heard putting the card in a microwave for a couple of seconds does the job quite nicely (as far as destroying the chip), the magnetized strip could probably be taken care of by using a cassette tape head degaussing tool.

3/02/2009 1:52 PM
Anonymous said...

The big problem with nuking it or otherwise destroying it is that you'd be arrested the next time you got pulled over, or tried to do any of the things it will be required for. I'm sure they'll make tampering with it a crime all by itself.

Seems to me that the thing to do is carry it in a thick foil pouch or in something that prevents it from being read casually, then presenting it ONLY when absolutely necessary.

I don't plan on getting one. And I don't think things are going to hold together long enough to make that our top priority anyway.

But at this time I carry my current old fashioned "license" in a special pouch that prevents it being read - whether it has a chip or not.

3/02/2009 3:38 PM
John Hardin said...

The microwave might scorch it. Use a hammer. First make sure it has a smooth face!

3/02/2009 4:06 PM
Anonymous said...

yes MamaLiberty, no doubt you are right, but at that point I won't give a damn about obeying the law and I will be prepared to discourage them at point of contact. Because you see I will have been outlawed as a free man. I would rather remain the outlaw of their invention than the slave of their design. For at least as long as I survive the conflict.

Of course, I will do my best to share the benefits of force with those agents sent to neutralize me. If I am to cross the river in anything other than a peaceful natural death, I intend to take company and finish them on the other side. Let their women and children cry for them, except I think there might be a few who would smile at the irony of the bully falling to a creation he invented, an "outlawed freeman".

For a man my age and experience not nearly as scary as it would be for a thug who, if he minded his own business and didn't serve in the subjugation of fellow citizens, could live for multi-decades. That is unless he unwittingly opts to take a journey with someone who has vowed to die as he lived, "FREE".

3/02/2009 4:13 PM
Anonymous said...

Actually, I like MamaLiberty's way best. You don't damage their precious card, but you prevent it from being read. But I also like SA's "outlawed freeman".

3/02/2009 5:53 PM
tom said...

I posted a comment that seems to have been deleted. David, I have no affiliation with that particular manufacturer, I was just pointing out that there are already companies in business already making Faraday cage wallets and passport sleeves that prevent the RFID from doing anything unless you actually take the card out of the wallet.

Sorry if a commercial URL bothered you, it was for example purposes only. I haven't bought one, don't know them, and it's something I stumbled across looking for something a bit nicer than wrapping my driver's license in tinfoil and having to explain that to people when required to display my driving license.

Regards,
Tom

3/02/2009 7:34 PM
David Codrea said...

Tom, it did not post--I did not delete it. Repost it--if it's on topic, it's welcome here.

3/02/2009 8:26 PM
tom said...

OkieDokie, looks better than a tinfoil wrapped license and less good as my ele hide one. =]

I'm gonna order one and see if it works and is what they say it is.

Here ya go and here too, from the makers.

Happy Shooting,
Tom

3/03/2009 12:27 AM

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