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Apple testing RFID-enabled iPhone?
Mike Clark
Near Field Communications World
Friday, November 6, 2009
Einar Rosenberg, who runs the Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin.com, has reported the following:
Had to share this news. A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in and they have seen it in action. So its not full NFC but its a start for real service discovery and I’m told that the reaction was very positive that we can expect this in the next gen iPhone.
If Apple does it, expect every phone manufacturer and their sister to begin pumping out NFC enabled phones, at least for service discovery and sync.
This just reinforces what we knew based on the two separate patents Apple submitted that had the iPhone enabled to read RFID tags. I’m told that the touch project video and the BT SIG’s specs were all driving forces to push this forward as well as other factors.
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Guess I’ll be touching my iPhone to my Mac to link them together to sync iTunes by next year.
For more details on Apple’s ‘Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader’ patent see our earlier article here.
UPDATE: And here’s the Touch Project’s iPhone RFID demonstration video:
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November 6th, 2009 at 10:28 am
very cool and interesting film about martial law and gun rights and the bill of rights watch! the republic strikes back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dqf88ZBnLM
wisdom in New Mexico Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
stop wasting AJ’s bandwith on your dumbass web crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thebes Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Actually, this is IMPORTANT.
If all smart-phones eventually end up with RFID readers, then RFID tags will almost always be near the ubiquitous readers. THINK!!! What do you think the NSA would like to do with this data? Would AT&T sell it ?(do bears shit in the woods)
One of the big fears with RFID tags is that they are not de-activated upon leaving a store. Not to worry explain their supporters, they can only be read from a few feet away, you’d need a massive network of readers to track them. Now we see that network of readers being devoloped.
Hack Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
AT&T is the govt FYI
Glen Reply:
November 8th, 2009 at 2:22 am
As with all things a good tech used in bad ways by bad people.
I personally would like to have every bastard that throws their fast food wrapper out the window of their car fined as an example
But the loss of privacy so massively outweighs this that deactivation at POS has to be the only option.
BUT
If it can’t be stopped buy stock in the garbage truck companies.
Imagine the Gold Mine when they can market the data from all the chips as they pick up your rubbish. The destination of every product sold and the time it took to use
November 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Ford trucks use RFID to track tools removed from the vehicle.
Ford Tool Link by Dewalt
November 6th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
a powerful movie that will move your heart and make you think, short film about love freedom hope- gunrights martial law, rfid, jfk, you gotta see it ! the first light of dawn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUY7dl7X_vo
November 7th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Very misleading. It’s only an RFID tag *reader* – And if they wanted to track people through their cell phones… hey, they can already do that!
Richard Fowler-Pierre Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Dude, they’re using this to try to eliminate trading using anything other than their electronic “credit”.
Are you really so asleep that you cannot see this? It’s way past time to wake up, man. They’re gonna start massively attacking us very soon, using undercover contractors in addition to all of their more traditional tactics.
What will YOU do?
And for what it’s worth, I can assure you that any cell phone shipped in the last 3-5 years has an RFID, possibly multiple ones. So even if that’s all you’re concerned about, then by your own standards, you’re STILL asleep.
We are all going to be the walking dead very soon if we don’t shape up and get REALLY serious about this … really, really … REALLY … fast.
Comments like the above are so profoundly disappointing and unbelievable that any words almost cannot do justice to them.
Yes, resistance, this will be the kind of person who — not may — WILL have your 6 at some point.
If that’s not enough to scare the absolute everything out of you … then what is.
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November 7th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Could be useful if it can be used to track down any RFID tag on the stuff around you.
With them being added to more and more stuff this could be useful
w1nst0n Reply:
November 8th, 2009 at 5:26 am
that was my first thought
November 7th, 2009 at 6:26 am
augmented reality
Who’s reality is being augmented by an army of highly mobile neural (co)processors called ‘humans’.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:54 am
did you ever wonder if your finger prints are checked every time you use a touchpad…
markus Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 8:27 am
No, I use my knuckle if I have to press buttons. Guess I’m a germiphobe.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Don’t credit/debit cards have RFID chips now? could the iPhone be used to steal personal info, or even charge a card remotely??
November 7th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
That would be great since there is a huge RFID scanning grid on almost every major highway now. The little white boxes on poles that point down at traffic. The rfid works on 175 khz a lower frequency than the ELF uses. The waves will penetrate the sides of semi trucks and report back a moving inventory, you the human cattle.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
All United States issued Passports are already intergrated with RFID Chips. So slowly but surely they are carrying on with there agenda. WHO? The globalists Elite!