Some Old News
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[2005]
jan.1.
'e-work' was coined by Professor Shimon Nof in 1999 to describe works that involved
collaborations of people, machines and computers. It was said that these 'elements'
of e-Work are often distributed and networked to work together. 15-dimensions
were identified to help designers to put systems together to facilitate e-Working.
Four domains are used to group these dimensions and one of them is "distributed
decision support." With RFID technology in development, the 'sensors' as
part of the "e-work domain" could be carrying a more prominent role
in guiding the integration and collaboration - which is part of another domain.
See Article >>.
apr.30.
U.S. State Department's plan to embed a contactless RFID chip in passport continues
with the renewed privacy protection concern. Instead of not protecting the un-encrypted
data on the chip of a passport, officials are looking for ways to protect the
personal data - authenticated readers can activate the sending of encrypted
data on chip (originally data was not encrypted on chip). Two terms were used
in this article that is of interest: 'skimming' and 'eavesdropping'. Skim refers
to the capture of data surreptitiously (stealth), and eavesdrop
refers to the capture of data during its transmission. The International Civil
Aviation Organization proposes a process called Basic Access Control
(BAC) to help provide an effective way of reading information from a passport
RFID chip with minimum privacy concerns. BAC helps prevent skimming and eavesdropping.
Read inhibitor (such as metal fiber) can be inserted in the cover of the passport,
interrupt any skimming if the passport is not open. Article was dated April
26, 2005.Tags : news rfid