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The Era Of Widespread Biometric Indentification And Microchip Implants Is Here

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Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

Are you ready to have your veins scanned every time you use your bank account?  Are you ready to use a "digital tattoo" or a microchip implant to unlock your telephone?  Once upon a time we read about such technologies in science fiction novels, but now they are here.  The era of widespread biometric identification and microchip implants is upon us, and it is going to change the way that we live.  Proponents of these new technologies say that they will make our private information and our bank accounts much more secure.  But there are others that warn that these kinds of "Big Brother technologies" will set the stage for even more government intrusion into our lives.  In the wrong hands, such technologies could prove to be an absolute nightmare.

Barclays has just announced that it is going to become the first major bank in the western world to use vein scanning technology to control access to bank accounts.  There will even be a biometric reader that customers plug into their computers at home...

Barclays is launching a vein scanner for customers as it steps up use of biometric recognition technology to combat banking fraud.

 

The bank has teamed up with Japanese technology firm Hitachi to develop a biometric reader that scans a customer's finger to access accounts, instead of using a password or PIN.

 

The biometric reader, which plugs into a customer’s computer at home, uses infrared lights to scan blood flow in a person’s finger. The user must then scan the same finger a second time to confirm a transaction. Each “vein profile” will be stored on a SIM card inside the device.

 

Vein recognition technology is used by some banks in Japan and elsewhere at ATM machines, but Barclays said it is the first bank globally to use it for significant account transactions.

But Barclays is not the only one that is making a big move into biometric identification.

Online retailing behemoth Alibaba is going to start using fingerprint scanning in an attempt to make their transactions more secure...

Alibaba, the giant Chinese online retailer, is integrating fingerprint scanning into its Alipay Wallet app. Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer of the iPhone and iPad, threw nearly $5 million at Norway’s NEXT Biometrics, which develops fingerprint scanning technology, back in May. And earlier this month it took a 10% stake for $2 million in AirSig, a Taiwanese company that uses smartphones’ built-in gyroscopes to track air handwriting. The company says AirSig provides three-factor authentication: your signature, your phone, and the way you sign with a flourish in mid-air.

It is only a matter of time before more banks, online retailers and major websites start using this kind of technology.  We live at a time when theft on the Internet threatens to spiral out of control, and big corporations are going to be continually looking for answers.

Cell phone security is another area of great concern these days.  If someone can get a hold of your phone and unlock it, that person can potentially do all sorts of damage.

So Motorola has developed a "digital tattoo" that will be used to ensure that only the owner of a phone is able to unlock it.  The following is how  Motorola described these new digital tattoos...

Made of super thin, flexible materials, based on VivaLnk’s eSkinTM technology, each digital tattoo is designed to unlock your phone with just a touch of your Moto X to the tattoo, no passwords required. The nickel-sized tattoo is adhesive, lasts for five days, and is made to stay on through showering, swimming, and vigorous activities like jogging. And it’s beautiful—with a shimmering, intricate design.

 

It’s another step in making it easier to unlock your phone on the go and keep your personal information safe. An average user takes 2.3 seconds to unlock their phone and does this about 39 times a day—a process that some people find so inconvenient that they do not lock their phones at all. Using NFC technology, digital tattoos make it faster to safely unlock your phone anywhere without having to enter a password.

And below I have posted the video that Motorola shared on YouTube about these tattoos...

Pretty bizarre stuff, eh?

But others are taking cell phone security to even greater extremes.

For example, some people were actually implanting themselves with microchips in anticipation of the release of the iPhone 6 on September 9th...

With a wave of his left hand, Ben Slater can open his front door, turn on the lights and will soon be able to start his car. Without even a touch he can link to databases containing limitless information, including personal details such as names, addresses and health records.

 

The digital advertising director has joined a small number of Australians who have inserted microchips into their skin to be at the cutting edge of the next stage of the evolution of technology.

 

Slater was prompted to be implanted in anticipation of the iPhone 6 release on September 9.

 

The conjecture among pundits and fans worldwide over what chief executive Tim Cook will reveal is building.

 

At present the iPhone cannot read microchip implants. However, Mr Slater believes the new version will have that capability. His confidence is now lodged between his thumb and forefinger.

Of course this kind of thing is not new.  People have been getting implanted with microchips for years.  If you doubt this, just do an Internet search for "biohackers" and see what you find.

But it is starting to become more mainstream, and there are already some thinkers that are quite eager to use such technology for very authoritarian purposes.

For example, one prominent philosopher recently suggested that we should use implantable microchips to prevent anyone that is "deemed unworthy" from becoming a parent...

Although he admits it “sounds blatantly authoritarian” and “violates just about every core value we possess in a free society,” a noted transhumanist author has said a world government body should forcibly sterilize anyone “deemed unworthy” of parenthood by using implanted microchips.

 

Constitutional attorney and civil liberties expert John W. Whitehead, founder of The Rutherford Institute, warned LifeSiteNews earlier this year that political officials would long to use this seminal technology.

 

In an article for Wired.com today, philosopher Zoltan Istvan wrote that the notion first crossed his mind when he heard a blonde nurse say, “with 10,000 kids dying everyday around the world from starvation, you'd think we'd put birth control in the water.”

 

After careful thought, in an effort to “give hundreds of millions of future kids a better life, I cautiously endorse the idea of licensing parents,” Istvan wrote today.

You might be tempted to think that this is crazy talk.

But the truth is that this kind of technology is already being developed.

In a previous article, I quoted a news article which discussed how billionaire Bill Gates is funding the development of a birth control microchip that "acts as a contraceptive for 16 years"

Helped along by one of the world’s most notable billionaires, a U.S. firm is developing a tiny implant that acts as a contraceptive for 16 years — and can be turned on or off using a remote control.

 

The birth control microchip, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, would hold nearly two decades worth of a hormone commonly used in contraceptives and dispense 30 micrograms a day, according to a report from the MIT Technology Review.

 

The new birth control, which is set to begin preclinical testing next year with hopes of putting it on shelves in 2018, can be implanted in the buttocks, upper arm or abdomen.

Yes, I know that a lot of the things that I have talked about in this article sound really weird.

But the reality of the matter is that technology is changing at an exponential rate, and our world is going to get crazier and crazier as time goes by.

Are you ready for what comes next?

 

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Wed, 09/10/2014 - 22:51 | 5204920 Millivanilli
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Dear Banksters, .Gov, NSA, Apple, Microsoft, MSM

Go FUCK YOURSELVES!

 

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 22:57 | 5204935 Chupacabra-322
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Go Fuck Yourselves & your Mothers.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:01 | 5204948 Stuck on Zero
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It's my contention that the best birth control is obesity.  Have you noticed that as the women in a country get fatter the birth rate drops?

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:03 | 5204956 knukles
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Yes, in general.
Altho seems Samoans like large women.  And take a gander at Kim Kardashian's butt.  Some guys like BigButts.  Why the fuck not just sterilize humanity and be done with all the crap?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:16 | 5204984 NoDebt
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You may have slightly overdosed on cynicism.  When you're ready to annihilate humanity to fix the problem, maybe, just maybe, mind you, you might want to take a step back, do a ZH detox regimen for a few days and just practice breathing in and out in a quiet place for a while.

Maybe.  It is, of course, your choice.  ;)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:30 | 5205052 knukles
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So It shows tonight, huh?
I just came from a meeting where everybody was oohing and ahhing over a 3 page treatise about emotional maturity.  I'd not said a single word.  Asked to read the last 3 paragraphs and comment thereupon, I stated that I thought the whole piece to be incomprehensible mumbo jumbo of a touchy feely nature that in the end meant nothing, with which I had no shared empathy.  Many were deeply disappointed in my honesty.  Fuck 'em.  Maybe they should all get sterilized, too.
You're right.  I do need to get away.  Perhaps permanently.
Maybe I'll register or whatever it is one does on HuffPo

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:39 | 5205070 Skateboarder
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WTF were you doing at a emotional maturity treatise meeting anyway!?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:57 | 5205091 knukles
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I have no fucking idea. 

PS You'll really chop your nuts off if you try reading the NYT's Tom Freidman for a week solid

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:35 | 5205261 Skateboarder
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King's men shouting the news --> King's men reading the news off a scroll --> *centuries pass* --> King's men print newspapers for everyone --> King's men read the news on radio for everyone --> King's men read the news on teevee for everyone --> King's men post the news on the Internets for everyone --> King's men transmit news directly to your dome, using the latest super duper chip you agreed to stuff in the back of your neck.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 03:29 | 5205353 old naughty
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--> King's men will decide when (and if) you eat, shit, fuck, die.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 04:49 | 5205406 Gazooks
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--> Kingsmen say we gotta go now

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 06:54 | 5205479 negative rates
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Gold standard first bitches!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 14:41 | 5207556 Debt-Is-Not-Money
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"--> King's men will decide when (and if) you eat, shit, fuck, die."

Got that right!

FUCK: Fornicate Under Command of (the) King.

Do when not commanded to and you lose 'em.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:44 | 5205322 California Nigh...
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Sounds perfectly sane to me. We don't any more swinging dicks on planet earth.  We should grandfather ourselves out - say down to global population of one million (give or take a million).

But every nation wants more soldiers, more workers. No nation wants to depopulate.

So we will stew in our shit and eventually die horrible deaths when the oil runs out, the oceans are acidified, etc, etc.

I hate to admit it, but when I read the latest ebola deathcount, a smile comes over me.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 04:41 | 5205404 Dakota Kid
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Why don't you help with world population reduction with your own body if you really feel this way?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 08:29 | 5205631 TuPhat
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He is definitely a californian.  It is the land of fruits and nuts.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:41 | 5205072 strannick
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6

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:40 | 5205075 strannick
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6

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:42 | 5205076 strannick
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6

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 05:29 | 5205432 BeansMcGreens
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John 3:16

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:17 | 5205004 Ralph Spoilsport
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Wasn't that Marshall Applegate's idea? He and 7 others voluntarily got castrated to get rid of those "bothersome instincts" so as to lead a more ascetic lifestyle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:38 | 5205033 Hongcha
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Applegate was a top-tier freek.  I always suspected he and his male followers favored it up the poop shoot anyway, so maybe not so big a deal eh?

I am sure our Founding Fathers freed up religious practice with people just like him in mind.

Self-castration for religious purity was practiced by some sects centuries ago, by Xtian ascetics.  There is no new thing under the sun.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:28 | 5205179 Proofreder
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Poop Chute

Midwestern education and cannot spell still.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:24 | 5205861 IrritableBowels
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he never used the word "still"

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:24 | 5205028 Hongcha
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Many like that big ass.  Samoans, Mexicans, Afghanis ... and a lot of AAs.  To each his own.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 06:58 | 5205482 negative rates
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Like test tube babies? In the year............

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:21 | 5205015 Hulk
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The birth rate drops because you can't be sure what hole, crack or fold you are cumming in...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:23 | 5205021 Ralph Spoilsport
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That's why you roll them in flour first...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:34 | 5205060 Yen Cross
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  Slap em' on the ass and ride the wave in> >>  :-)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:44 | 5205086 Hulk
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Big LOL Yen, funniest thing you have ever written !!!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:35 | 5205260 zhandax
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I don't care if you come in your hand and throw it at them. I don't need to know.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:41 | 5205267 Hulk
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I perfer to cum in their shoes and let the flys do the rest...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 11:44 | 5206578 XitSam
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Be sure to tie a rope around your waist so you can climb back out.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 06:33 | 5205467 MOB666
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Some of them larger ones dont even know they are pregnant!

"Hunny get the plunger we got another one stuck in the s bend"

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 06:56 | 5205481 negative rates
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So do your chromozones, straight to hell. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:28 | 5205175 Cornfedbloodstool
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What does this have to do with Notre Dame 31 Meatchicken 0?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:22 | 5205250 Wile-E-Coyote
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The iPhone Morons will queue up for these implants.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:30 | 5205256 Ignatius
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Fuck 'em, pay with cash.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 12:52 | 5206938 Jumbotron
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"Fuck 'em, pay with cash."

 

**Ahem** 

Make sure you do this first before carrying around all that cash.

 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Pulling-the-Magnetic-Strip-out-of-Americ...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 23:40 | 5209522 Ginsengbull
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Mylar lined wallet.

 

RFID can't read through mylar.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 04:53 | 5205407 LostandFound
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I am going to draw my red line, right here, No way in this world am i having any implant or 'tattoo' on or in my body.

What is this fraud people talk about? the biggest frauds are committed minute by minute by the banks themselves including Barclays!

This is not going to end well, total control of the masses. Get to work bitchez, pay your taxes...

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:27 | 5205513 Mr. Ed
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I sure as hell am not getting one... don't like the idea that my implant could be used to access stuff even if I wasn't breathing.  That's creepy.  Someone might get ideas...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:39 | 5205528 MalteseFalcon
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It seems like people are willing to trade their privacy for convenience. Or so the hype would have you believe.  NO chip/tatoo for me.  It's a red line.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 10:26 | 5206195 Citxmech
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I think my way is easier.  Cheap phone with no info on it that's worth anything.  Hack away.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 08:37 | 5205659 Grinder74
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666 baby.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 12:46 | 5206920 Jumbotron
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Revelation 13:15-17Contemporary English Version (CEV)

15 It was allowed to put breath into the idol, so that it could speak. Everyone who refused to worship the idol of the beast was put to death. 16 All people were forced to put a mark on their right hand or forehead. Whether they were powerful or weak, rich or poor, free people or slaves, 17 they all had to have this mark, or else they could not buy or sell anything. This mark stood for the name of the beast and for the number of its name.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 22:51 | 5204922 CaptainObvious
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So fucking what if they use biometrics?  Every electronic technology can be hacked or compromised.  How many major internet hackings have occurred this week alone.  Biometrics does not improve our safety or security one iota.  All biometrics does is it makes us easier to track.

"Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."

~Benjamin Franklin

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:10 | 5204973 piceridu
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We followed the mark and then isolated him and hacked off his arm which contained his microchip. With a simple wave of his arm, we got into his car, his house and all his personal files including his biometric safe...btw, he can now unlock his phone too!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:00 | 5205131 McMolotov
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"The book awoke something dark in the woods, something evil. It took Linda. Then it came after me, it got into my hand and it went bad, so I lopped it off at the wrist."

The Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies had this all figured out.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:01 | 5205485 negative rates
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Which book? The religous one, the rightous one, or the thousand and one ways to be wrong book??

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:51 | 5206009 detached.amusement
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its a trick, get an axe

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:11 | 5205234 NukeDuke M
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Exactly !

When the iphone n+1 came out with fingerprint scanner, everyone marvelled, how great it was. Months later, I don't know of any place where you can't login without that tech though. And remember 10 years ago, all Samsung (and probably Acer as well) laptops had the scanners. They were dropped because they were useless.

Actually, security experts point out that credentials are supposed to be secret. So why would someone choose, as a password, something they leave around everywhere they touch: fingerprints. Actually, a fingerprint protected iphone probably has the "password" somewhere on the screen. Reminds me of people writing their pincodes next to their ic cards. Biometric identification is just a way to make sure that it is ultimately possible to steal the credentials from you. This reduces the need to build backdoors, something companies are less and less willing to do, for some reason that must have nothing to do with the nsa outreach campaign.

Barclays ATM before: grab a guy, extract pincode from him, get the money. However, 3 failed attempts -> no money today.

Barclays ATM after: grab a guy, pound part of body to reading device, profit. This is progress !

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:44 | 5205268 zhandax
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For that matter, pretty much every biometric device ever imagined has been hacked in an adventure movie.  Remember the fake retinal scan in Never say Never?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:41 | 5205531 MalteseFalcon
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All these things can be hacked.  Their only purpose is to corral the sheep.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 11:16 | 5206415 GeezerGeek
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If part of your body is hacked off for biometric theft, can you say - assuming you survive - that you've been hacked?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 15:22 | 5207803 MalteseFalcon
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Even if you don't.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:45 | 5205271 Dakota Kid
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I'll show them my middle finger, nail facing them as my biometric.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:23 | 5205511 Winston Churchill
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Maybe ISIS is keeping those eyeballs for use on the eye scanners at bank ATM's.

The retina scanners are already used by ICE on green card holders.

Nothing is too expensive for them, except policing the southern border.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 08:28 | 5205617 StandardDeviant
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Yes; as piceridu suggests above, this will bring a whole new meaning to "hacking".

In fact, it already has.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:59 | 5206063 Urban Redneck
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Any computer password can be converted to a binary string of 0s and 1s.

A biometric password is nothing more than a slightly longer and much more cumbersome to change (when the inevitable need arises) string of 0s and 1s. I say slightly, because something the size of a microSD card or small fingernail can be encoded with a password over 60 billion characters long.

Of course no matter how long the password is, if the phone, the voice or data networks, the wifi connection, or any app on the phone is insecure or compromised, your "difficult" to change password can also be compromised.

long reconstructive surgery and human stupidity.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 22:52 | 5204925 Joebloinvestor
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This was proposed a long time ago in the movie,"The President's Analyst" (J.Coburn)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:25 | 5205031 Jam Akin
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A genuine classic - you mess with TPC, you risk your life!  Of course, the mark of the beast was predicted long before that...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 22:58 | 5204936 durablefaith
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Can't wait to see the bitcoin crew chime in and say how bullish this will be for cryptocurrencies...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:00 | 5204949 knukles
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Hah ha ha ha ha ha
Imaginary Satoshi has no fingers!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 22:59 | 5204943 metaStable
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"With a wave of his left hand, Ben Slater can open his front door, turn on the lights and will soon be able to start his car."

Seriously? I can do all that with a flick of my right hand. And a lot more ;-)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:40 | 5205079 Brutlstrudl
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I'm gonna chip my brain and blow the minds of all those listening in out in Bluffdale.

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:06 | 5205778 kill switch
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Freedom to Fascism

 

 

Aron Russo   RIP

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:05 | 5204950 Dre4dwolf
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Finger print scanning is more annoying than typing in a password, biometrics are just not conveniant to use, so thats pretty much out.

 

In terms of RFID . . . having a chip implanted in you is fucking stupid and anyone willing to have a piece of plastic injected into their flesh permanently just to use their phone . . . needs to re-evaluate their mental health, a keycard to replace metal keys would make more sense.

 

Lets say for a moment, that RFID, and Bio-metrics take over every facet of transactions and become necessary just to do simple things like pay a bridge toll, buy food etc. . . at that point you are opening yourself to such a security risk. . . people would run around with scanners trying to bump into your hand and steal your information, or people will get pranked and have their chips EMP'D by people who want to play games, the way RFID works someone could wipe all your RFID chips clean from a foot or more away.

 

If you want a chip up your arse, good for you I guess, I think many will pass...

I prefer ENCRYPTION as a security method over blatant unsecured wireless broadcasting from a piece of shit implanted in my hand.

 

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:03 | 5205285 Huckleberry
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There's plastic in the big pizza chains' dough. People don't care.

Da Rat in central FL has a BIG push for the RFID "Magic Bands". It's sad to see the little kids smiling and laughing as they get scanned.

Da Rat "supposedly" paid 1 billion to implement the program. Rumour has it that the .gov is actually paying da bill for Da Rat. 

I know for a fact that .gov is paying for all the park bag checkers and plain clothes.

The interesting thing to all of this is I'm slightly worried that posting this will somehow get traced back to me and I'm breaking some secret-fed law, let alone risking my job.

 

Think about that for a bit. We are far down the rabbit hole.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:07 | 5205294 Skateboarder
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If you don't oppose such horseshit, you've already lost, i.e. you're already dead.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 11:59 | 5206660 XitSam
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Imagine: all food is required to have a government specified amount of rfid chips in it. Chips stay active in your body for a certain period of time. You just walk through the scanner at Walmart and it tells you what kind of food and how much you can buy. Same for restaurants, fast food & school cafeterias.

Michelle Obama's dream: "Oh, you've had too many calories this week, you'll be eating soy all next week. Because the scanner shows you ate someone else's assigned food, as punishment, your flavor choices for next week's soy are 'soap' and 'dung'. Your government wants you to have a healthy day. We are only thinking of what is best for you."

https://www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:01 | 5204952 knukles
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Well, guess I won't be banking at Barclays or opening an Alibaba account anytime soon.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:08 | 5204972 anonymike
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That's the way we handle this in a free market, where these will likely go nowhere fast. If politicians try to force the technology upon us, it will be time to find the ones that are early adopters and deliver them two decades of hormone in a few minutes...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:49 | 5205280 zhandax
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I  pretty much wrote Barclays off when they sent me an application for a credit card with a $1500 annual fee.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:50 | 5205545 Wahooo
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Seriously? What kinds of transactions were they allowing you to do with a $1500 credit card?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 13:21 | 5207105 zhandax
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Same transactions, just moar bling.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 12:04 | 5206683 XitSam
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When it doesn't fly commercially, it will be mandated by government. They government wants you to be "safe" (as determined by government).  Anyone who objects to "safety" must be a terrorist or criminal.  If you don't do something that is good for you, you must be forced.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:03 | 5204955 BaghdadBob
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Let's get this straight...

A giant technology firm has hoodwinked the morons of the earth to give up the privacy of remote telephonic conversations and text based messages, their whereabouts (24/7), their contact details, their credit card details, their facial features (for instant recognition), private photos, passwords, etc, etc...and now they've developed a watch that can monitor those same persons heartbeats, habits and general well being.

And the same morons are happy to pay for it.

In love with your own slavery A.K.A In-fucking-sane.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:06 | 5204962 Bazza McKenzie
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Have the got biometric scanning to stop control fraud and customer ripoffs by banksters?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:26 | 5205034 CaptainObvious
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Long before they do that, we will all be implanted with mandated microchips that will prevent us from shooting a gun without a command prompt from a 911 center. (Which will of course occur at the same rate at which banksters are arrested, i.e. never.)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:11 | 5204965 jarana
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From the video:

These "digital signatures" are public keys (the sticks), and are produced by an algorithm from some private keys (the algorithm input for getting something "irrepetible" and not-easily-related to it, the public key). The device checks if the public key "comes from" the private key (is THE user).

 

You must trust that the company that holds the algorithm and the private keys respects your privacy (and won't be hacked).

Or you must not.

 

Some other decentralized and open source private-public key cryptographic system out there?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:12 | 5204989 tradewithdave
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know thy customer

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:15 | 5204996 dirtyfiles
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if you start overcomplicated things that are simple by nature it will eventually collapse to point 0

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:16 | 5205001 New American Re...
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Let me know when they get to iPhone 666.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:16 | 5205002 Ginsengbull
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I cut out my microchip and duct taped it to the belly of a wild boar hog.

 

Stopped paying child support too.

 

You should see all those domestic relations officers running through the woods.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:22 | 5205023 LongMarch
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Funniest shit I've read all day. Upvoted.

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:51 | 5205102 knukles
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Wrapped my pecker's head in tin foil.  Still had bad thoughts.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:19 | 5205010 Bemused Observer
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"With a wave of his left hand, Ben Slater can open his front door, turn on the lights and will soon be able to start his car."
Wow...Ben sounds like a bit of a mess, no? Let me know when he gets the chip that lets him wipe his own ass...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:48 | 5205544 Wahooo
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I don't like the kind of people who pursue the singularity promised by full automation of everything. They never want the things in life that I want, I don't share their values. There will be neighborhoods and cities I will avoid in the machine world.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:22 | 5205011 Hongcha
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It's already in the wrong hands.  Motherless fuckmonkeys.

But take heart lads; the shit is easy to shoot out, like the cameras hanging over intersections.  Long flat black spray paint and insulated wire cutters.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:23 | 5205024 firstdivision
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Pretty sure I read about something like this at the end of a religious book.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:22 | 5205025 SgtShaftoe
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Biometrics don't work very well. Just because it's on TV doesn't mean it's good. The bankers and these idiot companies will learn, but it will cost them millions in the process. Fingerprints can be cloned by a middle school kid, and really really well.

Cryptography, or physical real money is the answer, either cryptocurrencies, certificate based authentication, or something the holder has an incentive to physically protect. Biometrics are B movie bullshit. In the real world, they suck for a whole bunch of other reasons I'm too lazy to explain.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:29 | 5205045 CaptainObvious
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All one has to do to defeat biometrics is simple programming changes.  Make it so that every fingerprint is declared valid, etc.  For the more violently inclined, they can dig the microchip out of your arm, cut off your finger, yank your eye from its socket for the retinal scanner, etc.  Biometrics suck ass except for tracking sheeple, who are indeed stupid enough to voluntarily pay for and adopt this technology.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 08:27 | 5205628 StandardDeviant
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Agreed -- but -1 for the idiotic "sheeple".  Can we please kill this dead?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:26 | 5205037 robnume
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Nothing good can come fron this kind of intrusion. Because that's what it really is: an intrusion. I don't even like the finger print scanner on my computer, so what makes these fidouchebag companies think that we would trust them more if they fingerprint us! Well, I guess the "sky is falling," now. It's sad to see how many sheeple will pay someone to be able to have access to their own fucking money!! Fuck Alibaba and Barclays! I won't be doing business with you, if these are your requirements for customers.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:33 | 5205055 durablefaith
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The script

Nations go bankrupt. All of em. To stay in power, the politicians join the globalists. The globalists need tax revenues but noone has income, so...they tax transactions. All of em. Barter = tax evasion. Cash = tax evasion. No buying, no selling, without the mark of the beast, er RFIP chip. Oh and by the way, if you take the chip and you pay your transaction tax, you are supporting the government running roughshod over the citizens of what was formerly called earth, so you are complicit for trading your soul for purchasing power.

No thanks. 

"Come out of her my people lest ye share in her judgments..."

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:39 | 5205077 Yen Cross
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     If everyone had a pecker, there'd be a reader for that to... Just ask all those birds flying around with bands on their legs.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:48 | 5205094 DipshitMiddleCl...
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I believe in Eugenics

 

and i welcome the advances of technology to kill off the masses, or to atleast keep their breeding to a minimum.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:52 | 5205109 knukles
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What with my cynicism coming of age tonight, I'm beginning to believe you're on to something.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:03 | 5205136 DipshitMiddleCl...
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i spend alot of time culling over data at work and doing machine learning / modeling

 

the average person in the US today is not even capable of using basiv formulas in MS-Excel, let alone do some coding or any other white collar job that requires SOME skills.

 

there is no place for these people anymore, the retail jobs are going away and the factories that are coming back, will only be hiring mechanics and data-analyzer people to run the places.

 

im using my time in corp america to build capital for my forex/options account. i know ill be made redundent one day

 

 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:32 | 5205183 Real Estate Geek
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Soft power is better.  Offer those on the wrong side of the bell curve a new iPhone 6 and $500 if they get sterilized.  Throw in that new Olive Garden all-you-can-eat pasta deal and I bet they'd be lining up.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:25 | 5205514 Grouchy Marx
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Which bell curve is that - the one of intelligence or the one of political leanings?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 10:04 | 5206093 STP
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It applies to both, because they both lean the same way, politically and IQ, wise.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 14:09 | 5207376 Grouchy Marx
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What makes you think that when the bar is set for who lives and who dies, or who is allowed to reproduce, that you won't fall just short of making the grade?

Just because you can name a hundred microbreweries, and are a walking compendium of sports trivia, you still might not qualify, especially if punctuation enters into the assessment. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:07 | 5205141 anonnn
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The Lensman series by EE "Doc" Smith wherein biometric device is used to exclusively identify a Lensman being. Anyone else wearing it would be destroyed.

 A favorite Sci Fi adventure for me long ago.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:08 | 5205142 bshirley1968
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It amazes me that many of u read this and only have comments regarding the security feature or lack thereof.  In the end you will be saying "I love Big Brother".

I am even more amazed that u cannot look at the economic and political world around you and see how perfectly what I am about to say fits into what is happening right before our very eyes.  "And he causeth all, both small and great.,rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he has the mark,,or the name of the beast, or the number of his name....six hundred threescore and six." Rev. 13:17-18.

Deny it all u want.  U will only be lying to yourself because any honest rational person can see this is what's coming......and it will not be an option....of course for your safety and security....and the safety and security of those around you.  Most will stand in line for days begging to be marked so their iPhone will keep working.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:03 | 5205488 negative rates
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Religion is a cult that has no ending.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:22 | 5205509 Grouchy Marx
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Atheism is a cult that does have an ending.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 12:23 | 5206808 Farmer Joe in B...
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Do share your proof of eternal life....

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 14:02 | 5207342 Grouchy Marx
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You missed my point, Joe, which was simply that atheism exhibits characteristics of a cult. If you don't believe in God, agnosticism is a far better position to take.

Atheism takes blind faith: do share your proof that there is no eternal life...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:09 | 5208058 Zerozen
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Upvoted

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:17 | 5205156 Azwethinkweiz
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Mr. Bonzai, idea for some artwork: WE ARE CATTLE. (Us plebs branded with the logos of the corporations which think they can heard us)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:23 | 5205168 Leraconteur
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Appears as though that house in the mountains with a vinyl only music collection and a land line, is in my future.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:37 | 5205198 MoneyMonkey
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ted kaczynski was right

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:02 | 5205225 q99x2
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Those old technologies will never catch up to crypto-currencies.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:04 | 5205291 Ohne Deckung
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Depending on your agenda or mental engagement we have a problem and a solution in one package.

First to the solution part that is depending on your strength to advance in cynical waters. 

The noise, the electric smog all these devices are producing is of doom quality. You cannot see it, hardly to feel it but that sort of progress does the job. Softly, hardly traceable to the source. A depopulation winner.

If you go old fashion style to the matter you'll see a problem here. Young people with gray hairs and daily cancer of men and not to forget, of nature.  

The orientation to the light (of the sun) gets lost to the light faking screen. Hell and nightmare is to enter with ease on the path of least resistance. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:10 | 5205292 Ohne Deckung
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double post

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:12 | 5205297 GoldenDonuts
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The mark of the beast comes to mind as I read this shite.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 04:04 | 5205382 laomei
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haha, yea, good luck with that.  the rest of the idiotic millenials can go jump right off that cliff.  as for me? not a fucking chance in hell.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 04:54 | 5205410 besnook
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666. you know, i don't believe in this shit but occassionally they make you think about it. are the believers crazy enough to create the scenario as in a scifi movie to get what they want  or is all this stuff from megiddo, gog and magog  to 1/3 of the dead fukushima fish sort of suppose to happen. it is getting a bit eerie.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 05:49 | 5205439 22winmag
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If I never see another pointless, esoteric article from The Economic Collapse Blog it will be too soon.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 06:31 | 5205466 AdvancingTime
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Blame it on an imagination gone wild or a distrust of those with too much power. Blame it on an imagination gone wild or a distrust of those with too much power. Drones, killer robots, and ugly possibilities is an article concerning a subject I have written about before.  Unfortunately recent revelations about the American government spying on us, our friends, and the leaders of our allies across the world does little to calm my concerns.

We must take note that technology is quickly blurring the line between drones and robots at the same time that the killing power of these machines is being ramped up, we should be afraid! To say these machines have the potential to become formidable and a danger in the wrong hands is an understatement. The article below is a reminder that what they have planned is not limited to what we have seen.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/drones-killer-robots-and-ugly.htm...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 06:59 | 5205483 Slazenger
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Watch how crime will go up, people reporting missing their limbs!! Shimata...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:07 | 5205490 AdvancingTime
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 Just over a year ago I stumbled upon a blog on WordPress .com written by Gerry Spence who was born and educated in the small towns of Wyoming where he has practiced law for almost fifty-five years. As a  nationally known figure in the legal system Spence  has spent his lifetime representing and protecting victims of the legal system from what he calls The New Slave Master: big corporations and big government. Below is a disturbing take on society put out there by Gerry Spence and the idea that we have become no more than slaves.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-are-all-slaves-interesting-tho...

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:13 | 5205500 BadDog
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Right out of the Book of Revelation and right on time

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:40 | 5205530 Grouchy Marx
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This all makes a Carrington event seem really appealing. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 12:09 | 5206727 XitSam
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It also makes a country especially vulnerable to EMP attack.  A faraday cage around an arm implant kind of defeats the purpose.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 07:57 | 5205555 Took Red Pill
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Rockefellers been planning this for a long time;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7se4gFTCys

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 08:01 | 5205560 mendolover
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No thanks.  I'd rather fumble.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 08:41 | 5205668 Orwell was right
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I thought I was reading what COULD be an interesting article on digital tracking....and the the author takes a hard turn into birth control.      Why is it, that birth control gets dragged into every damn discussion.   We already have time released birth control implants....which prove effective and convenient....and don't require constant visits to the medical establishment....and don't require one to remember to take it.      Big difference between and effective and needed birth control option...and mandatory tracking to buy/sell/exist. 

Yes....I know that the 'implanted birth control' COULD be abused....but that is the same damn argument anti-gun people use.

 

Stick to the topic....invasive TRACKING technology.   Robots and drones taking over control, (controlled themselves by remote masters....or perhaps even taking on life themselves).     Instrusive government control that subverts EVERYTHING...(from control of guns to birth control to food...etc.etc.)

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:11 | 5205800 GOSPLAN HERO
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Mark of the Beast.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:23 | 5205853 Duc888
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How will the implementation of this tech stop the crimes, thievery and scamming on Fraud St?

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:34 | 5205905 Rastadamus
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Bill Gates is a fucking dangerous man

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 09:51 | 5206013 Pimp Daddy
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I guess RFIDs are much cheaper than the cell phone towers. NSA wants pay raises!

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 10:19 | 5206156 p00k1e
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I believe Social Security is all electronic deposit now.  Doctor’s e-prescribe now. 

After the next “Terror” strike, maybe tonight, you will need to get ‘registered as an American’ in the 'new system' or give up your loot. 

It's clear as day to see. 

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 10:47 | 5206286 Ghostdog
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IM not that stupid yet that I need a fucking tattoo unlock my phone because Im too fucking fat, stupid and lazy to type a fucking password

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 11:51 | 5206623 Loup Kib
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With a wave of its doorknob, the front door can open Ben Slater, turn on or off his wits and bowels, and the car will soon be able to start and stop his "owner's" moods and heartbeats. 

Without even touching Ben Slater, databases can link to him and fill him with brand new, limitless information, including personal new details such as new names, false or real addresses and funny health and sickness records, real or invented.

Ben Slater is on the way to becoming a perfect robotized efficient citizen of the Land of eNaught. 

With a wave of a whiff of a fart from anywhere, including from a robotized bank managers, he'll soon be discarded through its own chips in a symphonic flow of colourfull beeps.

Something, somewhere, will be roaring with electronic laughters.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 12:15 | 5206762 Farmer Joe in B...
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Will the Alphas and Betas be getting chips implanted or just those lowly Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons??

Fri, 09/12/2014 - 03:34 | 5209785 HolyfieldsOtherEar
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Just what I need. A government kill switch embedded in my coronary artery.

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