RFID's - Book Tagging, etc.

Matthew Astley lists-ukcrypto at fruitcake.demon.co.uk
Sun, 5 May 2002 23:27:45 +0100


On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:50:14PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> Pretty much the same information (and much more!) that "they" can
> infer from your library borrowing record is also present in the log
> traces that you leave while browsing the web.

I chuckled sheepishly after reading an online copy[1] of "1984" from
cover to cover one evening. Now "they" know exactly how long I took to
read each page.

On the bright side, I'm not concerned that the thought police will be
visiting, but it doesn't seem like a terribly clever thing for Outer
Party members to do.


Matthew  #8-)
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[1] http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~smf7/175/booktoc.html