Jamming RFIDs in SR4A, Too bad the Headjammer doesn't cover the whole body. Options

[Jaid]

HERF gun? Did I over look something or is that in a book other than the SR4A BBB?

iirc, it's in arsenal.

[Tachi]

Thank you for your post and that link, it is very informative.

No problem.

So, do you think that in SR4A 2072 that RFID tech has failed to identify potential threats? IMHO, I think it has and it hasn't, based on their being different types of tags. I think there is like a priority thing going on, where how important something is determines what kind of tag it gets, with the Corps basicly saying to themselves that majority of their market, normal every day Joe metahuman, won't be doing this or that with technical knowledge of the tags, so the tags are just there to keep the shmucks honest. I think some of the stuff in the system would be purposely not even tagged by corps.

I don't think anyone, in SR or RL, has any idea how bad it's actually gonna get.

Sure makes a certain level of technical proficiency with tags and the appropriate equipment seem important to being a Pro type runner. And making your own or modifying stuff seems like it would be important too so as to remain suitably dark aka shadowed.

Very much so, IMO.
Hell, I'm working on it myself in RL.
BTW, I've got a list of reference links from my paper (it was submitted electronically), it has the different current RL tracking techs that I wrote the paper on, and their uses, separated into legitimate uses and illegitimate uses, if anyone wants it. It's kinda rough and ugly, but if you want it PM me. It's nowhere near a complete listing, but it should point you in the right direction. I spent about 12 hours online just weeding through this crap, doesn't make sense not to get more use out of it.

[hobgoblin]

But to trace any RFID-tag, one must to spot that particular tag. Runner bought a jacket? Probably few or more guys in the same mall did it before, and RFIDs in those jackets broadcasts the same data. And stuff on shelves, and other people's stuff broadcasts it's own data. And the shadowing person must find one particular signal. Of course, if she alredy knows that signal, things are easier - but that means legwork and/or cleverness.

one thing about RFID, vs the barcode its "hoped" to replace, is that it can id each individual product in a production run, rather then just the type of product.

so basically, each product will have its own serial number, on top of product type, brand, and whatever other data the company wants to put in there...

remember, we can today put a nice collection of text, audio and video onto something the size of a fingernail, and SR4 do not bother with storage space as one can either stuff it on some online server or some chip somewhere on/in your body...

i would say that any runner worth his/her pay will have routines when it comes to RFID, routines resulting in neither the player nor the GM really worrying about someone being stopped at the door because his is broadcasting the wrong kind of lunch...

one can do one of two things, either blank it fully, tho that may well make you look like the proverbial hole in the ocean, or rewrite the tags so that they appear to match company policy.

all in all, only worry about RFID when it would be appropriate, like say when the runners are hired to grab something/someone, or something similar like that...

another option is to make it clear how pervasive the RFID thing is, by having the product come with a AR manual embedded in a RFID chip inside it...

[Kumo]

one thing about RFID, vs the barcode its "hoped" to replace, is that it can id each individual product in a production run, rather then just the type of product.

so basically, each product will have its own serial number, on top of product type, brand, and whatever other data the company wants to put in there...

But one has to know serial number of the RFID to trace it's signal. Have it given or find it single-handedly. Then trace it in a crowd of signals (many of them not identical, but similar), by many transmitters. So it's possible that hacker or his gear make a glitch, especially in spam or staic zone. Or signal can be lost because of interferences - jammers, buildings etc. So to detect target is easy, but finding it amidst many other nodes probably require a test.

[Paul]

But what exactly You need to know? You know how Wireless Matrix works, or just started with SR4?

Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but duty calls. I think my question has been answered.