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Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips

Submitted by nirosive on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 15:27
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According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world.

So while the American people, especially those in Texas and other busy border states, have been inundated lately with news reports advising them to hurry and get their expensive passports, “enhanced driver’s licenses,” passport cards and other “chipped” or otherwise trackable identification devices that they are being forced to own, this digital television/RFID connection has been hidden, according to Patrick Redmond.

Redmond, a Canadian, held a variety of jobs at IBM before retiring, including working in the company’s Toronto lab from 1992 to 2007, then in sales support. He has given talks, written a book and produced a DVD on the aggressive, growing use of passive, semi-passive and active RFID chips (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) implanted in new clothing, in items such as Gillette Fusion blades, and in countless other products that become one’s personal belongings. These RFID chips, many of which are as small, or smaller, than the tip of a sharp pencil, also are embedded in all new U.S. passports, some medical cards, a growing number of credit and debit cards and so on. More than two billion of them were sold in 2007.

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Submitted by quiltingsando on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 18:02.

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I've heard that magnets

Submitted by Scott Barber on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 17:20.

can reek havoc on electronic devices... hehehe

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Excellent article. Thanks for posting.

Submitted by DeMolay on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 17:00.

Well worth the read. The sad part is that it has already happened and most people don't realize it.

I always thought that

Submitted by BmoreBrawler on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 16:46.

I always thought that digital move was sketchy as hell. Why would the government care enough about TV of all things to mandate the end of analog?

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yep

Submitted by legalizeliberty on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 16:44.

great post - front page material.

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The truth

Submitted by quiltingsando on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 16:04.

comes out.

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How to counteract this?

Submitted by Light4Jesus on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 15:55.

If we can't stop them politically, is there something we can buy that would detect these radio frequency devices in order to get rid of them or block them?

Maybe there is a covering or metal you can put around them or something. Not that I have anything to hide, but who knows what these people are up to? We need to be ready to protect ourselves.

If you put a microphone in someone's house to bug it, someone else with a bug detector can find it.

rfid proof/detector

Submitted by ardentscientist on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 16:44.

Search rfid on instuctables.com. There are many things to do to counteract this. Good thing to, because anybody with the technology can steal your most protected information and use it. RFID only helps the thief to get your wallet without having to fight you for it.

"The reason they are doing

Submitted by fiodax on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 16:43.

"The reason they are doing this is that the [UHF-VHF] analog frequencies are being used for the chips. They do not want to overload the chips with television signals, so the chips’ signals are going to be taking those [analog] frequencies. They plan to sell the frequencies to private companies and other groups who will use them to monitor the chips."

So you could pirate these frequencies and broadcast at very high powers. Since most of the implantable chips actually get their electrical power to transmit from the actual signal they are receiving, by transmitting a powerful signal it may be possible to fry the chip, and it would certainly be possible to jam the signal of the chips by transmitting at a high power over the range of frequencies that the chips use. This way whatever was being used to track your rfid signal would be overloaded with the pirate signal and would not be able to "hear" the transmissions of the chips.

One problem however is that your transmission source would be instantly recognized if they had in place some kind of antenna grid or network, and with current adaptive array antenna technologies the antennas could then just null out your source of interference and continue operating until your interference was taken off the air.