Myki Monitoring the masses

The current public transport ticketing system, called the metcard is being replaced by the new and much under fire and generally accepted failure (by the public) myki card.

The reasons given for a new ticketing system are not the opinion of corpau, but rather from information obtained by personnel within the public transport sector.

The currently used card with magnetic strip is sufficient for many years yet but a change must be implemented at great cost to the general public. The government was to secure a deal in which it favoured a particular supplier through a tendering process in which the favoured supplier was being made aware of its competition’s pricing, a practice which is illegal in Australia.

Even though the victorious supplier’s I.T. infrastructure and technology was NOT up to specification for the rollout of the myki card, a well known flaw within the government circles, the over the air update of its software ROM, the tender was still given to the current supplier.

The politics of the current government are:

· to restrict the movements of the public, where they are difficult to monitor, and

· to redundantly monitor the movement of the majority of the masses.

Come the introduction of the myki card. The myki card is equipped with what is known as an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip onboard which will be used to monitor all movements of the card holder.

In recent news the mass media jumped on the band wagon that Apple’s iPhone was storing the users movements with a combination of data from phone’s internal GPS together with tower triangulation.

This feature was documented in a report over a year ago to US congress, but only just recently picked up by the mass media.

User location has been available to governments (authorities) since the advent of the GSM mobile phone, BUT this was NOT common knowledge amongst the masses as it was a tightly kept secret.

The next phase of monitoring the masses will be the introduction of an RFID chip into the vehicle’s registration label.

Since the majority of arterials in the major cities are tolled, the palatable excuse given to the masses will be that it will be for the ease of administration, and the current e-tag, can be dispensed with. Naturally this excuse will be accepted by the general populous.

Any resistance or debate regarding this topic is label by the authorities as ‘conspiracy theories’ even though, the technology is used for that very intended purpose as described by the ‘conspiracy theorists’.

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