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Data Security Not an Issue?

If the standard RFID can be read at thirty feet, I would consider data security a real issue - not when an item is on a base but during transport.

Scenario - data reader buried into roadway or mounted beside road on a pole or mounted on or under a bridge where transports pass. The enemy now know what is being supplied and when.

Scenario 2 - Terrorist leader with small number of troops desperately requiring supplies. A raid at a back of the lines supply unit gets reader and equipment catalog - after all the data is no good if you don't know what it is. He wants to attack convoy to obtain much needed supplies - with the reader data he knows which convoy to attack for the supplies he needs most.

If the convoy is equipped with a countermeasures tell tale that warns of reader transmissions that are needed to trigger responses, then all that is needed are a number of cheaply made decoy transmitters. After digging up a number of decoys, troops get lax as the VC found in Vietnam when they dug holes and didn't plant mines. Eventually troops ignored the decoys and the real one that was planted.

I can see real data security isssues - has xxx base been issued with xxx.
Are the troops equiped for chemical warfare?

If weapons etc are fitted with permanent tags then it is possible to know exactly how many armed personnel are in the back of a truck and what they are equipped with. If tags are only on supplies then the information may be a little less important but could still be vital - does that vehicle carry troops or supplies - what supplies does it carry?

If the Nukes were equiped with the tags then every "friendly" with an antinuke policy would fit readers on their roads etc outside US bases or beside runways as a matter of course.

But may be I'm just cynical...

Posted by: rxtxau   Posted on: 03/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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