12/14/2003: 
Fraud & Conspiracy
Swedes Call Shenanigans On WSIS
Or, van Eck phreakish
from UK Inquirer
A report claimed that attendees at last week's World Summit on the Information Society were bugged without their knowledge. According to this press release, a group of independent researchers obtained official badges using fake identification, only to find each badge included RFID (radio frequency identification chips) semiconductors. At the conference, a number of countries proposed that the Internet should come under United Nations' supervision – an attempt that failed. The organisers of the conference, it's claimed, have failed to respond to questions relating to the use of the RFIDs. The use of RFIDs in such a conference is claimed to breach Swiss government data protection rules.
It makes sense that a nation that did not attend (3 guesses, first two don't count) would want to have an idea of what was going on there.
