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John Mackey, CEO of WholeFoods, “Globalization is the most caring and compassionate strategy we can implement to help the developing world lift itself out of poverty. This is the simple truth. But how many people understand this truth? The Left has convinced the idealistic young that globalization is harming the developing world — that it is a plot by greedy corporations to rule the world. The freedom movement has a responsibility to explain the wisdom of globalization and to hold it up as a noble ideal. ” …from his Action Plan
entitled………Winning the Battle for Freedom and Prosperity”

http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2006_06/mackey-winning.html

It was either here or in a television commercial where I saw that UPS can now track packages based on bar codes, so when one is scanned, they will know where it is. Complimenting a customer one night on his awesome looking phone, I mentioned this, and he told me that while the technology wasn’t there yet, they would soon be able to do something similar for appliances. So if someone tried to steal a refrigerator, they’d know how to track the person. It’s pretty cool, but at the same time, I can’t help but think, Big Brother is coming.

I don’t understand why people complain so much about Whole Foods prices. When author Tim Harford in The Undercover Economist examined prices at WF and Safeway on the exact same goods he didn’t find much of a difference.

That’s correct. Why Whole Foods has the perception of being expensive is that many shoppers buy much fancier items than they would at a run-of-the-mill supermarket.

Security is based on three things: Something you have, something you know, and something you are.

Credit cards are “something you have”, your signature is “something you know” combined a bit with “something you are”, while fingerprints are solely “something you are”.

The more high end fingerprint scanners check for 1) warmth and 2) pulse. But even those can be defeated by pressing a finger on top of a thin copy of the fingerprints lifted off a cup with household items.

Fingerprints are perhaps the most convenient form of “something you are”. But as I mentioned is easily defeated.

Truly, the cost of beating credit cards (which is quite a simple procedure) is pretty high due to expensive equipment, but all but the most sophisticated of fingerprint scanners can be circumvented relatively cheaply. But the semblance of security is certainly comforting

Both biometrics and the credit card systems concentrate on the 2 weaker parts of the 3 pillars of Authentication. “Something you know” is much harder to copy/extract. How about a written passphrase?

A hybrid system might improve over it slightly, by integrated biometrics data, or SecureID-type tokens. But the added security of that will be quite miniscule relative to the cost of implementation.

The handwritten passphrase has the following advantages: Can be quite long, relatively cheap to automatically process, can be easily verified by humans. Might be a bit less convenient than swiping your fingerprint, but it also means you still don’t have to carry any cards, etc.

So why hasn’t this technology taken off? For a crowd familiar with the “Left Behind Series” (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/10/strange_tabarro.html) you should realize that this brings us one step closer to the “mark of the beast” (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2003/12/credit_cards_un.html)
–Insert sarcasm here.

In response to MaverickRonin, terrific point about it being easy to hack, but I think that the goal with this especially at a grocery store is less to make an unbreakable security device and moreso to come up with something that is decent and impossible to forget. A better credit card, or a long alphanumeric password can be strong but they can misplaced or forgotten.

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