WOZ? What the hell have you been up to?

Peter DaSilva for The New York Times

Apple Co-Founder Creates Electronic ID Tags
By JOHN MARKOFF

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 - The co-founder of Apple Computer, Stephen Wozniak, recalls that it began with a series of lost dogs - a runaway husky, a roving Shar-Pei, a wayward bichon fris�.

The problem led inexorably to a Wozniak solution: wireless location-monitoring technology that would use electronic tags to help people keep track of their animals, children or property.

Now Mr. Wozniak, whose new company, Wheels of Zeus, has been operating in Silicon Valley stealth mode for 18 months, is ready to talk about the technology. This week the company � whose name is derived from the Woz in Wozniak � plans to announce its formal management structure. Its investors are: Mobius Venture Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Palo Alto Investors.

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In an interview last week in Wheels of Zeus's offices in Los Gatos, Calif., which are nondescript except for his Hummer parked out front, Mr. Wozniak described WozNet as a simple and inexpensive wireless network that uses radio signals and global positioning satellite data to keep track of a cluster of inexpensive tags within a one- or two-mile radius of each base station. WozNet, he said, will include a home-base station that has the ability to track the location of dozens or even hundreds of small wireless devices that can be attached to people, pets or property. The tags � expected to cost less than $25 each to produce � will be able to generate alerts, notifying the owner by phone or e-mail message when a child arrives at school, a dog leaves the yard or a car leaves the parking lot.


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"PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: DARPA�s Information Awareness Office (IAO) is soliciting ideas that will imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and transition information technologies and components for possible use in prototype closed-loop information systems to counter asymmetric threats. Program outputs will exploit information to significantly improve preemption capabilities, national security warning, and national security decision-making. The most serious asymmetric threat facing the United States is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loosely organized in shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define. IAO plans to develop technology that will allow understanding of the intent of these networks, their plans, and potentially define opportunities for disrupting or eliminating the threats. "

I am certain we all fall into their definition of terrorisim. This is Mien Kampf" in action. Prepare to experience the Patriot Act. You have eyes to see, open the god damn things


Government has got a bigger Apple!!!!!!!!!!

aw, come on, Woz, you're supposed to be one of the good guys! it highly depressing to see one of your heroes working for something with ramifications as unnerving as RFID development.

I wonder if your mutt will smile at you upon boot up.