Re: Some more background on the RFID experiment in Hiroshima

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Excerpts from Eric Rescorla on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 11:09:31PM -0700:
> At Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:19:53 -0700 (PDT),
> Ole Jacobsen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Eric,
> > 
> > The local hosts are reading the messages on this list and will take 
> > appropriate steps including:
> > 
> > * Not displaying the ID number <--> attendee mapping anywhere
> > 
> > * Not assigning numbers sequencially
> 
> That seems like a good start. As Richard and I have both indicated,
> however, this system seems to have substantial residual privacy
> risk, even if the identifiers are assigned completely unpredictably
> (and note that non-sequential and unpredictable are not at all the
> same thing). 

So don't carry it.  Or carry it in your faraday cage passport holder.

> I think it's fair to say that the people running this experiment
> haven't done anything like full disclosure of the relevant
> risks--and it's not even clear that they understand them themselves. 

Please help them

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