Re: Implants

An interesting sidenote to this is the article below.  It may seem a
bit on the tinfoil-hat-paranoia side of things, but worth noting
nonetheless, as apparently it's also being done in europe.


http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode.html

RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them

Want to share an event with you, that we experienced this
evening.. Dave had over $1000 dollars in his back pocket (in his
wallet). New twenties were the lion share of the bills in his
wallet. We walked into a truck stop/travel plaza and they have those
new electronic monitors that are supposed to say if you are stealing
something. But through every monitor, Dave set it off. He did not have
anything to purchase in his hands or pockets. After numerous times of
setting off these monitors, a person approached Dave with a 'wand' to
swipe why he was setting off the monitors.

Believe it or not, it was his 'wallet'. That is according to the
minimum wage employees working at the truck stop! We then walked
across the street to a store and purchased aluminum foil. We then
wrapped our cash in foil and went thru the same monitors. No monitor
went off.

We could have left it at that, but we have also paid attention to the
European Union and the 'rfid' tracking devices placed in their money,
and the blatant bragging of Walmart and many corporations of using
'rfid' electronics on every marketable item by the year 2005.

Dave and I have brainstormed the fact that most items can be
'microwaved' to fry the 'rfid' chip, thus elimination of tracking by
our government.

So we chose to 'microwave' our cash, over $1000 in twenties in a
stack, not spread out on a carasoul. Do you know what exploded on
American money?? The right eye of Andrew Jackson on the new twenty,
every bill was uniform in it's burning... Isnt that interesting?

Now we have to take all of our bills to the bank and have them
replaced, cause they are now 'burnt'.

We will now be wrapping all of our larger bills in foil on a regular basis.

What we resent is the fact that the government or a corporation can
track our 'cash'. Credit purchases and check purchases have been
tracked for years, but cash was not traceble until now...


* cpratt-UYko1UTVIqz2fBVCVOL8/[email protected] <[email protected]> [2004-03-06 15:04:36 -0500]:

> There's an article at the bottom of this e-mail from the New Scientist from 
> November.  I admit I picked up on this from News Quirks in the Seven Days 
> newspaper.  
> 
> Applied Digital Solutions makes chips to inject into pets and livestock, and 
> scanners to activate the chips.  Schering-Plough distributes the chips and 
> scanners in the U.S. Here's an article from a few weeks ago that talks about a 
> subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions about the possibility of implementing 
> a national livestock id program using the injectable VeriChip.
> http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37347
> 
> ADS's intent, if you follow the article below, is to retool the chip to inject 
> into humans.  They are not waiting to get FDA permission to do human 
> experimentation.  According to an article from South Florida CEO magazine by 
> Rochelle Broder-Singer (Aug. 2003),
> 
> 'In the meantime, [CEO Scott] Silverman has not been idle, pushing the 
> VeriChip into applications--and places--where the FDA has no jurisdiction. He 
> has negotiated deals for VeriChip distributors in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, 
> Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Russia, among others. In the US, he's 
> targeting government agencies, which could use the chip for everything from 
> security to a replacement for military dog tags. "If and when one of those 
> relationships yields a contract for VeriChip, it will be a big day for 
> Applied," he says.
> ..
> Next on the list: developing a GPS tracking system so the chip can be used to 
> locate kidnap victims in the Americas.'
> 
>  
> Finding kidnap victims?  How altruistic.  It's more likely the technology will 
> be abused, used to keep tabs on the 'enemies' of governments, organizations, 
> and even corporations.
> 
> There have been problems in the past with cattle implants; they stop 
> transmitting after a couple of years.  The implant is a foreign object, and 
> the body, when presented with an object it cannot expel, encysts it in 
> tissue.  This excess tissue can cause a bulge in the skin.  (Having said this, 
> cattle have thicker skins than humans, and tags are often read in less-than-
> ideal conditions.)  Fine, sounds stupid, big deal, but someone will be able to 
> tell you're carrying a credit card by the low-tech option of looking at you.
> 
> 'But ADS claims its Veripay system, which is based on radio frequency 
> identification (RFID) technology, would end the problems of identity theft and 
> make it impossible to lose your credit card.'
> 
> It might be 'impossible to lose', but what prevents its violent removal?  I'd 
> rather someone took my wallet.  Furthermore, even if I stopped using my credit 
> card, information can be stored and retrieved about me, and I would not know 
> the full content unless I had a personal scanner. (Although this article 
> simply talks about simple information, such as a credit card number, medical 
> information and biometric data can be stored on them as well.)
> 
> ADS also assumes its products (and there are other companies developing these 
> technologies, including Global Data Solutions Inc., founded by a former CEO of 
> ADS) are uncrackable.  Dangerous assumption.  Every system can be defeated, 
> given enough determined and talented people.
> 
> Color me troubled.
> 
> 
> -x
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Credit-card implant provokes criticism 
>  
>   
> 12:05 27 November 03 
>   
> NewScientist.com news service 
>   
> An under-the-skin implant that makes credit card payments via radio signals is 
> attracting widespread criticism from technologists, privacy lobbyists and 
> security experts.
> 
> Advanced Digital Solutions in Palm Beach, Florida, announced a plan to turn 
> its rice-grain-sized Verichips into a method of payment at ID World 2003 in 
> Paris, France recently. The company's previous proposal to implant GPS systems 
> inside people also prompted scepticism. 
> 
> But ADS claims its Veripay system, which is based on radio frequency 
> identification (RFID) technology, would end the problems of identity theft and 
> make it impossible to lose your credit card.
> 
> The injectable chip could also one day store PC and cellphone log-ins, medical 
> information, and wireless car and building entry codes, says ADS's Matthew 
> Cossolotto, who is already "chipped up" with the device. 
> 
> However, Veripay's opponents say that it has technological limitations, would 
> compromise the wearer's privacy and could be less - not more - secure than a 
> conventional credit card.
> 
> 
> Identity number 
> 
> 
> A RFID tag is a device that emits a unique identity number when queried by a 
> radio frequency "reader". The signal from the reader both activates and powers 
> the tag. The tags are becoming increasingly popular, particularly with big 
> companies managing their stock.
> 
> Thirty Mexican patients were implanted with RFID chips in July 2003, to allow 
> instant access to their medical records and "sub-dermal" tags have been used 
> to track pets and livestock for over 10 years. 
> 
> The tags are also already used for making wireless credit card payments. For 
> example, ExxonMobil has attached tags to key-rings, to speed up gas station 
> transactions for its customers. But ADS is the first company to propose sub-
> dermal chips as a means to secure or make financial payments.
> 
> Matt Reynolds of ThingMagic, a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts 
> specialising in "embedded intelligence", including RFID, is sceptical. "If the 
> security was one day cracked, who would want to go in and get another 
> implant?" he says.
> 
> 
> Bogus receiver 
>  
> Richard Smith, an internet security and privacy consultant in Boston, 
> Massachusetts, says the device poses a security risk. The implanted tag could 
> potentially be accessed by a bogus reader, unknown to the owner, and the 
> signal "cloned". 
> 
> Cossolotto argues that decoding and reproducing the signal would not be 
> trivial. "Right now people walk around with all kinds if important information 
> in their pockets," he told New Scientist. "This is a step forward for 
> security - Veripay is not easily lost or stolen."
> 
> Yet this is precisely why Katherine Albrecht, the founder of the consumer 
> advocacy group CASPIAN, finds Veripay frightening: "It's a lot easier to 
> cancel and credit card account than it is to gouge a chip out of your arm." 
> She worries that the chips will provide tracking opportunities for advertisers 
> wishing to know the intimate shopping habits of particular consumers.
> 
> Farther ahead, she says that the tags will provide a determined person with 
> the means to track your every move. Beth Given, of the Privacy Rights 
> Clearinghouse in San Diego, California, agrees: "If we establish a robust 
> credit card network based on RFID chips implanted under the skin, we are also 
> creating the infra-structure for potential government surveillance."
>  
>   
> Celeste Biever
>  
> 
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