New ID Card Tracking? You're Already A Beacon

New ID Card Tracking?
You're Already A Beacon
By Ted Twietmeyer
2-2-7

Much has been uttered and printed regarding the new national ID card, coming soon to a pocket near you. Many are upset by this little gem of technology, fearing big brother and Orwell's ideas. But is it the first way they will have to personally track you? First, let's take a look at the essential factor for spying-at-a-distance without optics: Radio frequencies. To begin with, it is generally accepted that frequencies of 50 Megahertz (MHz) and higher will travel from Earth's surface, through the ionosphere and into space. 50 Megahertz is actually the start of the VHF television band, channel 2 in the United States and Canada.

A former member of the intelligence community went public on a television documentary about the first Gulf War in Iraq, in 1991. When Saddam purchased all new printers and computers for his military installations everywhere, a special chip was provided to the printer manufacturer by an American Intelligence agency. It did everything the normal chip in the circuit did to make the printer work, plus one additional function. The chip acted like a beacon when pinged by a satellite signal, enabling American forces to drop a bomb on every single military installation. And that was 16 years ago! Now imagine how advanced things are now. The rule of thumb has been the military advances 44 years, for every year of civilian technology. That's right - high density, high pin count microchips date back to the 1960s. That's when THEY had them. Everyone else was still working with individual transistors.

You may wonder what all this has to do with RFID. The answer is everything, because spy satellites orbiting Earth 200 miles up cannot detect radio signals very well below 50 MHz! These lower frequencies bounce off the Earth's ionosphere as though it were a mirror, returning them back to Earth or in some cases, completely absorbing them.

In the earlier days of "remote control USA," garage door openers first operated near the 27MHz citizens band frequency. Remote control systems for model airplanes and boats also used this band in the 1970s. There were no personal devices like cell phones, PDAs, WiFi networks, GPS or other toys. All of today's electronic toys operate at far higher frequencies - and all are well within the listening capability of spy satellites. These satellites have directional antenna arrays as large as a football field, that fold out and deploy upon reaching orbit. Super-cooled, ultra-high gain amplifiers can pull a signal out of the mud for almost any given frequency of interest. The shuttle is used to deploy these satellites for the defense dept. on classified missions. Satellite launches are not televised.

Below are just a few of the FCC assigned frequencies for today's toys. This data was extracted from a lengthy 56 page table [1] which came straight from the FCC, the keeper of all things for communications in the USA. Canada's regulatory body generally follows the same spectrum assignments, being a close geographic neighbor. With the exception of the television band included for reference only, I have left out numerous bands reserved for satellite data, Earth to space communications, etc... and other frequencies reserved for non-personal use:

Fixed and land mobile communications - 152 to 156MHz, 161MHz etc...
Maritime Mobile - 156MHz.
TV channels 2 through 13 - 174 to 216MHz.
Amateur radio - 222 to 225MHz. (One of many bands for amateurs)
Fixed mobile - 225 through 328MHz divided into numerous bands
Garage door openers - 317MHz.
Amateur radio location as needed - 420 to 430MHz.
Remote Vehicle Starters - 433MHz
Private land mobile - 451 to 460MHz. divided into numerous bands
Cell phones - 824 to 894 and 1900MHz.
Private paging - 929 to 930MHz.
Broadband PCS - 1850 to 1980 MHz divided into numerous bands
Computer WiFi networking - 4.9GHz [2]
Newer cordless Phones - 5.2GHz. These started at 49Mhz, then went to 900MHz and higher.

The above list is just a small sample of assigned frequencies. Every time you push a talk button on a radio, use a cordless phone (newer cordless digital phones operate at 5.2GHz.,) start a car, activate a garage door opener remote control, place a phone call, page someone etc... you and/or they light up like an airport beacon in the government's satellite tracking system.

Starting your car in the winter by using your remote car starter is a dream invention for intelligence agencies - you're telling them you're about to leave!

The frequencies used by the national ID card will not be officially published of course. However, it won't be long before some enterprising person finds out what they are with testing, and jams the daylights out of them. The FCC has declared a drop-dead date for all current analog commercial television broadcasting from channel 2 through 83 to cease. This date came and went, and has been changed by the Senate to Feb. 17th 2009. [3]

How did they arrive at Feb. 17th 2009? A bigger question still remains unanswered - what will the government dp with the 500 megahertz of spectrum this ban suddenly frees up? No one to date has discussed this issue. This spectrum is not attractive to manufacturers, because these lower frequencies by necessity require very big antennas, as compared to those on cell phones, WiFi boxes and computers, etc... It's also not useful for human RFID implants either which currently use very low frequencies, less than 1 MHz.

With all the "broadcasting" everyone does now using all these electronic devices and many others - why is everyone is worried about being tracked by the ID card?

It would seem to be the least of our problems.

Ted Twietmeyer
www.data4science.net

Strange footnote: UHF television channel 37 is now reserved by the FCC for radio telescope use.

REFERENCES
[1] - www.fcc.gov...
[2] - www.apcointl.org...
[3] - www.cnet.com...

You have voted renster for the Way Above Top Secret award. You have two more votes this month.

Very nice. Well done, I will be interested in seeing where this topic goes.

This also makes me think about in 2004 or 2005 this computer technician found a secret function that is in all printers. On every piece of paper that gets printed off their is a hidden watermark type thing that says all the information on the printers serial numbers and other computer information. It was said the NSA had this put in to bust counterfeit money schemes. Also in windows there is a built in file named nsakey which is basically a back door for the government to access all of your computer. If you think about it the computer and wireless technology is the best way for the government to track a person and find out everything about them. Coincidence that I read on here before Rupert Murdoch now owns Myspace. I'm just wondering what else is "bugged" out of all the technology we use everyday. I remember in that 9/11 conspiracy episode of south park the basic conclusion was the government wants us to think they are all powerful and all knowing but in truth they aren't. Well that might have been true a long time ago but with all the technology that integrates with our personalities. How hard is it to press a button and hack into computer then copy every single file and history, then take that and run it through a fast working program that looks for certain things to red flag. Or even easier tap a cellphone and just get all the records of calls and contacts lists from the companies. It is extremely easy to do these things and with the super mainframes and computers the government uses I am betting a whole sweep of every single internet history given to the government by the Internet Service Provider, could be recorded and sorted through within weeks and then follow up on all red flags with tappings of the connections right back to the IP address and your Identity.

astheplacesburn has a good point.

Also Id like to add, the people on this website that are upset about ID cards, think about it, you are using a computer as you read this.... a computer is probably the easiest thing ther government can trace and get info from. Unless of course you are a skilled hacker.

I can bet that most on this website probably arent.

Ted's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Here's another ATS by the same name:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

By the way their is no file called nsakey, if the government was going to put something on our computers like that then they would make it look like it was a legitamate file so flags wouldn't be raised when you see it.

malakia...

it's called Windows Automatic Update

[edit on 23-2-2007 by sky1]

rolflmao

Originally posted by asthepalacesburn
Also in windows there is a built in file named nsakey which is basically a back door for the government to access all of your computer.

Please don't spread disinformation. If the NSA wanted a backdoor into every windows computer do you think they would blatetly have a visible crypto key especially one called NSA?? there are many ways to subvert windows and remain completely stealth and crypto keys arent needed.

Here's the famous computer security and crypto expert Bruce Schneier's take on it

www.schneier.com...

www.microsoft.com...

Some even think the NSA can break 1024 bit encryption in realtime, and 2048 given some time So I doubt some 128 bit stuff would be much of a problem

seclists.org...

Originally posted by renster
New ID Card Tracking?
You're Already A Beacon
By Ted Twietmeyer
2-2-7



TV channels 2 through 13 - 174 to 216MHz.

Sorry I have to catch you on this one being a TV guy (heheeh)..Channel 2 starts out at 55.25 MhZ. And its 2-14...the VLF (Very Low Frequency) band.

Cheers


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