RFID Closer to Reality?

[CathyInBlue]

I think RFID has gotten conflated with a plethora of other technologies conceptually similar.

You can have a system where two objects in proximity communicate for authentication purposes, but it's not necessarily RFID.

You can have a system where one object is fed power through proximity or contact with another, but it's not necessarily RFID.

You can have a system where an object passively harvests microwatts of power from its environment, but it's not necessarily RFID.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Rfids normally draw their power from the reader through induction. No reader, no power, normally.

No, passive RFID tags are simply read by readers, they don't actively transmit anything and thus require no power source.
No power thus needed, but you're correct in that no reader, no data gets read.

Active tags do require a source of energy to transmit the encoded data via radio-frequency, but these are far less common.
RFID could be used to track firearms assuming they were to have passive RFID tags implanted within it, but they could only be read externally, from a distance.
Even so, say government mandates RFID tags installed in the receivers of newly-manufactured weapons.
What's to stop you from slapping another upper on your AR? Or a new stock, if they put it there?

Not much to worry about yet. Not that we might not have reason to worry in future, but not right now.

 

[columbusprepper]

There was a thread about chips in guns previously and the general consensus was nope can't happen. Well there seems to be more validity to this now.

Previous Thread: https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/general-firearms-discussion/279254-rfid.html

A current YouTube video about the RFID chips in guns: The Rise of RFID 'Smart Guns' - YouTube

Article with links for reference: New RFID 'Smart Guns' May Be Used By Govt to Bypass Second Amendment

So now we know this is real, what are the chances the Democrats can use this to effect a type of gun control?

666

 

[spirit390]

 

[cintile]

You can pretty much count on this happening

 

[BehindBlueI's]

WSome tires also have an RFID chip that they use to track you.

Who's "they" and how do they track you via RFID in a tire?

 

[JettaKnight]

Who's "they" and how do they track you via RFID in a tire?

The real answer is "They" are quality control or the manufacturing line. And they don't track you - they track the tire in the plant and ensure that good tires go onto your car.

This whole "RFID is evil" and "they are tracking you" and "they can kill your gun and dog" is