http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21823.html
http://securityfocus.com/columnists/169
Here is another facet in the development of small autonomous sensors, which I am convinced will have transformative powers far beyond their apparent utility. A radio transmitter so small that a sneeze would hurl it several feet, which is independently powered ["Look Ma, no batteries!"], can provide an ID report for whatever it is attached to.
The privacy implications are sufficiently absorbing, but the power of more extensive and proactive maintenance and repair that such devices could enable is also something worth careful consideration.
Not only have we not seen nothing yet, but if this all comes to pass in its most powerful format, we won't see nothing later, either -- but it will still be there.
Not least of iterest about this item is the fact that two quite different report references landed in my e-mailbox within hours of each other.
Posted by jho at July 1, 2003 09:34 PM