Human microchipping

[phylodog]

Prepare yourselves for the aluminum foil shortage

BBC News - Office puts chips under staff's skin

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

In before the "Mark of the Beast" reference.

 

[drillsgt]

In before the "Mark of the Beast" reference.

You won't be tricked into that for the convenience of unlocking the door it will be a conscious choice. As for this, I think i'll stick to my old fashioned key and card reader. I don't need any special permissions to use our copiers anyway.

 

[rambone]

Someday they'll add microchips to the mandatory injections for school children. They already have the perfect precedent.

 

[dusty88]

You won't be tricked into that for the convenience of unlocking the door it will be a conscious choice. As for this, I think i'll stick to my old fashioned key and card reader. I don't need any special permissions to use our copiers anyway.

I'm not concerned about the religious reference.

However, these things don't happen by intentional trickery. Your SS was originally just for the purpose of your SS payment and related references. There are perhaps still some laws that technically prevent a company from "requiring" it. Yet government agencies insist on using it for ID and insist that you have such a number.

An ID card is also now required for more interactions. I had to show my ID at Chase yesterday to make a $28 cash deposit into my business account. That's their new policy related to money laundering avoidance and investigations. I understand the wisdom of asking for ID for a withdrawal. Asking for ID for a deposit is purely for the government's potential prosecutorial convenience.

It's very difficult to rent a car or a hotel room without a credit card.

So if microchips become more widespread, then they can become the standard. And once they are scanned somewhere, they can be tracked just as you now leave a trail where you use your credit cards or other forms of identification.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I'm not concerned about the religious reference.

However, these things don't happen by intentional trickery. Your SS was originally just for the purpose of your SS payment and related references. There are perhaps still some laws that technically prevent a company from "requiring" it. Yet government agencies insist on using it for ID and insist that you have such a number.

An ID card is also now required for more interactions. I had to show my ID at Chase yesterday to make a $28 cash deposit into my business account. That's their new policy related to money laundering avoidance and investigations. I understand the wisdom of asking for ID for a withdrawal. Asking for ID for a deposit is purely for the government's potential prosecutorial convenience.

It's very difficult to rent a car or a hotel room without a credit card.

So if microchips become more widespread, then they can become the standard. And once they are scanned somewhere, they can be tracked just as you now leave a trail where you use your credit cards or other forms of identification.

Yeah, and also, is there anybody who believes that it will be that much more difficult to clone micro-chips than to clone credit cards, or to make a fake ID card?

 

[HamYankee]

They can count me out. No way I'd choose the "convenience" of a chip.

 

[Thegeek]

Yeah, and also, is there anybody who believes that it will be that much more difficult to clone micro-chips than to clone credit cards, or to make a fake ID card?

I work at a place where we tag animals. Want me to show you how fast I can scan, program a new chip, and implant it.... never mind, already done.

That being said, I'm an IT nerd who undertands encryption fairly well. It'd be pretty easy to have an encrypted chip in your wrist, and the decrypt key be your finger print. Just because it's in your body doesn't mean it's active security. Like your pin number at the ATM, you need a handshake. A finger print is nearly as unique as it gets.

 

[dusty88]

They can count me out. No way I'd choose the "convenience" of a chip.

I wouldn't either. However, it didn't take me long to give in to the convenience of google maps/location. At least we can turn our phone off or leave it behind more easily than removing a chip. I'm just thinking though that people would pretty quickly give in to the convenience. Then someday you'll be the tinfoil hat weirdo that won't use one.

 

[RockofStrength]

Yeah tinfoil all around. Hey, remember when your SS card had this little notation at the bottom?

 

[HoughMade]

Well, I have to do it:


From the article:

Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin...

..That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand.

Compare:

..it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

(Revelation 13:16-17 ESV)

More than a little eerie. Is the author of the article possibly screwing with the reader a little by throwing in detail reminiscent of this well known passage? Maybe.

...and i don't think anyone is claiming the company in Sweden is "The Beast".

 

[Robert Richardson]

Well, I have to do it:


From the article:





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More than a little eerie. Is the author of the article possibly screwing with the reader a little by throwing in detail reminiscent of this well known passage? Maybe.

...and i don't think anyone is claiming the company in Sweden is "The Beast".

Well, it has to start somewhere.

 

[HoughMade]

Well, it has to start somewhere.

"It" started a long time ago....

 

[Redtbird]

Hm... The only 'chip' I want inside my body is made from a potato. And *I* put it in!

 

[HoughMade]

Hm... The only 'chip' I want inside my body is made from a potato. And *I* put it in!

I'm with you. A tortilla chip or, in my case, my home made ("HoughMade", get it?) sweet potato chips, would also be acceptable answers.

 

[MCgrease08]

They can count me out. No way I'd choose the "convenience" of a chip.

But at least you understand that it is a choice. Some people will choose the convenience of this technology and it WILL become more common.

As long as it's not mandated, I have no issues with the concept of it.

 

[bradmedic04]

I have two daughters. I anxiously await the ability to inject them with tracking chips. Hope it happens before they're of dating age.

 

[KLB]

I have two daughters. I anxiously await the ability to inject them with tracking chips. Hope it happens before they're of dating age.

You can just track them with their phones until that day comes

 

[Kutnupe14]

Well, I have to do it:


From the article:





Compare:





More than a little eerie. Is the author of the article possibly screwing with the reader a little by throwing in detail reminiscent of this well known passage? Maybe.

...and i don't think anyone is claiming the company in Sweden is "The Beast".

So left and I'm good?

 

[hoosierdoc]

Are they not satisfied with the ones we put in at birth?