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RFID redux deux Remember the VeriPay™ and VeriChip™?Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. VeriPay [ the Company's newest subdermal RFID solution ] is intended to be a secure, subdermal RFID (radio frequency identification) payment technology for cash and credit transactions. About the size of a grain of rice, VeriChip(TM) is the world's first subdermal, radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip that can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency identification and other applications.
Remember how I went on and on and everyone told me I'm just paranoid? Well, I got yer "paranoid" right here:
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Security has reached the subcutaneous level for Mexico's attorney general and at least 160 people in his office - they have been implanted with microchips that get them access to secure areas of their headquarters. It's a pioneering application of a technology that is widely used in animals but not in humans. Mexico's top federal prosecutors and investigators began receiving chip implants in their arms in November
Ok, just ewww.
Looks happy 'bout the whole thing doesn't he?
Must be Texas rice . . .
Aceves said his company eventually hopes to provide Mexican officials with implantable devices that can track their physical location at any given time... In fact, in March, Mexican authorities broke up a ring of used-car salesmen turned kidnappers who were known as "Los Chips" because they searched their victims to detect whether they were carrying the chips to help them be located.
If I may reiterate?
It has started as a "financial convenience object." Later, "for your safety" they add in ID with retinal prints -- after a couple dozen people get slit open by muggers. [and we thought getting your purse stolen felt intrusive. . .] Then we come to the Law of Unintended Consequences-effect: -- Muggings will always involve a knife. -- Child abductions will always leave physical scars. -- Hacks will be written to retrieve encoded info without the owner's permission or knowledge. "Official" or freelance. -- Hacks will be written to deposit encoded information without the owner's permission or knowledge. "Official" or freelance. -- Underground cash economy surpasses "official" economy in size and importance [like the "undocumented worker" labor force in Cahleefohrneeah.] -- The concepts of privacy and freedom of travel become faint, nostalgic memories. Something one's granny goes on and on about; sorta like walking thru the snow to school. Up hill. Both ways.
"secure, tamper-proof, and loss-proof solution "
Think again, slick.
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