Standard Mischief

I first saw Spychips a few days ago in a bookstore. It looked interesting, so I snapped a quickie photo to remember it by and left. Then I read a review by Claire. Seeing as she said it had not been officially released yet, and seeing as it was on the same topic as a rant I have been saving up, I just got back from snatching it up. I read the forward by Bruce Sterling, one of my favorite authors, and I read the first chapter in the store. It seems pretty good, and an easy reader, but it?s more a book for a beginner, than one who has been reading tinfoil conspiracy for the last decade. Don?t let the last line I wrote fool you. RFID tags are a major threat to your privacy, but I don?t think you will learn much new if you have been following the story over at Slashdot.

Because I’m really interested, and because it?s such a lightweight book, it has jumped ahead of the queue, ahead of all those books I borrowed to help me customize this website. Even ahead of that mint copy of The Outlaw Gunner by Harry M. Walsh that I found at the used book store. I got to crack the spine on that book, (unfortunately, it?s the seventh printing)

Expect a good rant in a day or so.

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