{"id":1815,"date":"2014-02-24T23:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T23:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2014-02-24T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T23:43:41","slug":"through-the-looking-glass-21st-century-rfid-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/through-the-looking-glass-21st-century-rfid-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Looking Glass, 21st Century RFID-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iTunesEquation of the day: \u00a0Cognitive dissonance = searching for travel accessories that will\u00a0hold a passport and credit cards AND provide\u00a0RFID protection <\/span>AND go under one’s clothing — while at the same time listening to the “<\/span>If You Like the Grateful Dead<\/a>” Channel on iTunes Radio. \u00a0OR I could switch to the <\/span>Leonard Cohen<\/a> one for the same result. \u00a0I’m usually pretty good at avoiding over-60 vertigo but this…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We can’t take our laptops or iPhones overseas without the capacity to completely cut off data and email. \u00a0Everything but text. \u00a0The data pirates I first met all those years ago in <\/span>Neuromancer<\/a>\u00a0are legion now, having moved from (fictionally) stealing corporate data to (really) pulling infinite amounts of information from our passports, phones, laptops and credit cards. \u00a0 At least the kind they use in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pretty dark, and way beyond simple identity theft, right? \u00a0Now available: \u00a0where we’ve gone and for how long, what we’ve bought and from whom, phone calls, emails, passwords and personal information out there like a big buffet just waiting for them. \u00a0As I listen to the music, I keep thinking of anthem-saturated marches, \u00a0pot-scented dorm rooms, grey afternoons with the Sisters of Mercy and a vital, curious, well-educated self who could never have imagined, much less understood, our modern vulnerabilities. \u00a0Even in the 90’s, with its “Information wants to be free” mantra didn’t prepare me for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Equation of the day: \u00a0Cognitive dissonance = searching for travel accessories that will\u00a0hold a passport and credit cards AND provide\u00a0RFID protection AND go under one’s clothing — while at the same time listening to the “If You Like the Grateful Dead” Channel on iTunes Radio. \u00a0OR I could switch to the Leonard Cohen one for … Continue reading Through the Looking Glass, 21st Century RFID-Style<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,4,6,27,8,9,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-music","category-politics","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}