Re: [tlug] RMS is at it again

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Phillip Tribble wrote:
> Kind of funny. "After our coverage of London's Oyster card, which uses 
> Linux for its online payment system, we had a response from Richard 
> Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation."
>
> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008393o-2000469549b,00.htm 

Setting aside the fact that no-one could have any reasonable expectation 
of privacy riding a London bus or the Tube system, there are privacy 
implications of to user linkable RFIDs[1].

Edward

1. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/rfid_and_privac.html