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  • abbreviation radio frequency identification

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  • noun electronics Radio-frequency identification.

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Examples

  • Ship2Save is one of the industry leaders in cost effective RFID Solutions and is a founding member of the Canadian Microsoft RFID Council, a member of the Microsoft Global RFID Council, an EPC Global Canada Strategic Council Member, a CompTIA RFID+ ™ Cornerstone Committee Member, and a member of Texas Instruments Tag-It Team.

    LBSzone RSS News Feed 2008

  • Ship2Save is one of the industry leaders in cost effective RFID Solutions and is a founding member of the Canadian Microsoft RFID Council, a member of the Microsoft Global RFID Council, an EPC Global Canada Strategic Council Member, a CompTIA RFID+ ™ Cornerstone Committee Member, and a member of Texas Instruments Tag-It Team.

    Embedded Computing Design 2008

  • RFID is short for Radio Frequency Identification, which in turn can also mean Spy Chip.

    Radar spy chips 2005

  • RFID is short for Radio Frequency Identification, which in turn can also mean Spy Chip.

    Radar spy chips 2005

  • Mythbusters 'Adam Savage now says that credit-card companies and Texas Instruments didn't lean on him to kill a story about vulnerabilities in RFID cards:

    Boing Boing 2008

  • I feel RFID is greatly misunderstood, and deliberately misrepresented, by those with axes to grind regarding surveillance, as although the more usual passive type of RFID can technically be read from a few metres distance in ideal condition, it is very sensitive to interference from other metal items making random distance attacks infeasible.

    Electronic cash cards carried by majority of Japanese 2008

  • Check out the first two minutes of this clip of Mythbusters Adam Savage telling the folks at the HOPE hacker conference about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by big credit card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is:

    Credit Card Companies Killed ‘Mythbusters’ Segment on RFID Security Vulnerabilities | Disinformation 2008

  • Check out the first two minutes of this clip of Mythbusters 'Adam Savage telling the folks at the HOPE hackercon about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by big credit-card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • This is a London pet shop which advertised chipping pets (as in RFID, not Fargo).

    Pet and chips shop 2006

  • This is a London pet shop which advertised chipping pets (as in RFID, not Fargo).

    Plot | strategic design & innovation agents: 2006

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