Homeland Security to Launch RFID Systems At Border Crossings

[Lori Price CLG]

Homeland Security to Launch RFID Systems At Border Crossings --Five border posts with Canada and Mexico will get the systems, to track visitors driving in and out of the U.S.

TORONTO (AP) --The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will install radio frequency technology at five border posts with Canada and Mexico to track foreigners driving in and out of North America.
In its ongoing efforts to tighten border security and monitor possible terrorist and criminal activity, Bob Mocny of the Department of Homeland Security said the wireless chips for vehicles would become mandatory at designated border crossings in Canada and Mexico as of next Thursday.

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166403260

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Lori Price

[ConfuZed]

1. As if terrorists use border crossings *chuckles*

[Lori Price CLG]

2. Yes, but Giuliani or some other Nazi can make a fortune on...

the RFID chips, etc..

Lori Price

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. how insanely stupid

Anybody who is planning to do bad things, and has any reason to think they're on a watch list, will just steal either a car or just a document with an RFID from some upstanding family truckster.

[jazzjunkysue]

4. I crossed the Alex bay border last week and will again this week. I'll go

by boat. This is so totally stupid: Anyone who wants to get into the country can swim across a couple of narrow passages in the st lawrence river, and totally ignore the bridge crossing.

We invaded the wrong country, and now, we're punishing the wrong people. This is a total waste of time and money.