A funny note about the purchasing of Spychips Friday at Barnes & Noble. I only looked at one other book, Macromedia Flash 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh : Visual QuickPro Guide, and as soon as I opened it up, a tag dropped out. I'm pretty sure it was RFID, with the telltale little black dot of the chip surrounded by the antenna. It was so ironic I had to tell someone, so I showed the BN worker who happened to be stocking in that aisle and she appreciated the irony.
UPDATE: It was actually an EAS tag, not the typical RFID tag. This tag doesn't probably include individualized data, but probably a 1-bit anti-theft tag, an identical tag that any other book in the store might have. Oh, well, still some "irony" value there somewhere...
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So when I was up in Portland a few weeks ago, i was wearing a new pair of jeans, with an antitheft tag sewn directly into the seam. They have those anti theft sensors in pretty much every entry way in Portland. So every time I would walk into or out of a store/cafe/boutique/museum, i would trip the sensors and end up being searched. I found that explaining that "this has been happening all week long" only made them search more dilligently.
I finally found the tag on the way home...or i guess i should say that the security people at the airport found the tag.
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