When Cash Is Only Skin DeepÊ(subdermal microchips)

[Wonk]

By Julia Scheeres
02:00 AM Nov. 25, 2003 PT

A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin.

Applied Digital Solutions CEO Scott Silverman said he believes the company's VeriChip -- a subdermal microchip that uses radio frequency signals to broadcast an identification number to a scanner -- could someday replace credit cards. Under Silverman's plan, rather than swiping a bank card to make purchases, micro-chipped customers would scan themselves using special readers.

Although the biochip payment plan may strike some people as a bit X Files-ish, financial transactions using radio frequency identification, or RFID, are already commonplace in some areas.

more...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61357,00.html

Saviour barcodes?

[Maple]

1. Don't invest

in the handbag industry.

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Now where have I heard about something like this before.....

Revelation, chapter 13

16 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,
17 that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom: Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.


George 6
Walker 6
BushJr 6 :scared:

[Maple]

3. Oh puleeze

Everything is a major crisis to you guys.

[Eloriel]

4. I am not myself a Christian, but I do recognize that the Bible

has not only some wisdom in it, but also some viable prophecy.

And I do believe this microchip IS the Mark of the Beast.

Eloriel

[maggrwaggr]

7. jeez, relax. Who'd actually want one of these?

I sorta doubt people are gonna be clamoring to have debit cards inserted under their skin (shiver)

[Nihil]

10. IIRC it's tiny ...

It's a very small device - I bet half the target population would
never notice it in their subcutaneous fatty layer - so the deciding
factor will be how it is presented to the TV-led masses.

Some people will always be taken in by marketing ("Never leave home
without your credit card again!", "The safest way to know who's spending
your money!") and once it gets a significant number, expect strong
government support for such a scheme ... combined with your existing
ID of course ...

Mind you, the popularity will plummet shortly after the news report
of the first muggings ... messy ...

Nihil

[slaveplanet]

11. There is big $ pushing this

Look at the way this is being covered in recent years. Gradually but steadily. Who says there's going to be a choice? Look at all the recent hubbub about encouraging the medical community to register for mandatory smallpox vaccinations(95% refused-but that will change with a draft or Martial Law). They'd certainly vaccinate the doctors and nurses first so they could then force it on us. Although this scenario would have limited success, many would go along to get along. Many would die shooting before they'd take the chip.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

14. Well, a lot of women have Norplant birth control

implants under their skin. I don't think people would mind at all, they will do anythng that is convenient.

[Skip Intro]

9. I agree! And check this "Christian" article on the "Digital Angel" chip -

I mean, this looks pretty cut and dry to me, and I'm not a practicing Christian either.

The fact that "the" Bible has been perverted, knowingly or unkowingly, by religious "leaders" with an agenda doesn't make its essence any less valid. And when this book talks about people paying for food and services via a mark in thier hand, and then we read this is now poised to become reality, well, people are free to scoff, but I don't. I believe its here too.

Weren't social security numbers once vouluntary? Try to get a cell phone or cable without it now. Hell, try being born without being issued one. And wouldn't a permanent ID help the DOHS protect the homeland from shadowy evil-doers?

Trip on this:

(they're calling it Digital Angel! its dubbed something completely opposite of what I suspect it is. Just like the bush regime's "acts" - a new level of newspeak. anyway...)

http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/opinion.htm

snip:
Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) received patent rights to Digital Angel (TM) technology on December 10, 1999. What set Digital Angel apart from the competition was the innovative design--a miniature digital transceiver specifically created for human implantation.

According to information released last year the implantable transceiver "sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and actuation system are unlike anything ever created. When implanted within a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it can be activated either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring facility."

An Information Technology report recently verified plans to study implantable chips as a method of tracking terrorists. After first pulling back from the implantable version of its Digital Angel, ADS foresees a unique use of its product in the wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

"We've changed out thinking since September 11," a company spokesman said, "Now there's more of a need to monitor evil activities."
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I've changed my thinking since 9*11 too.

:scared:

[NYC]

5. Barcode.

From a Japanese newspaper about a year ago.

10 digits for cows, 11 for humans.


http://bbs.globalfreepress.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=71&pos=0

I made several attempts, but was unable to make the picture display here. Sorry.

[maggrwaggr]

6. I love that picture, wonk

in your post. It's awesome.

These chips are currently being used right now in livestock, and they're also selling versions of them to be used in wristwatch-like devices on children and on old people, so they can be monitored remotely. I.E. if your old person falls down, you'll be alerted so you can go pick them up. If your child disappears, you can at least locate the device that should be attached to them.

They're also using them in cargo containers. I checked this out when I did some stock market research for a company called Digital Angel (DOC) which is now owned by Applied Digital. It's pretty cool technology, actually. Don't think I'd want one for myself, however. I'll stick to the card in my wallet.

[Wonk]

8. re: that pic in my sigline, I found it here

http://www.cbc.ca/deadlineiraq/

A DU thread about it.

[OldSoldier]

12. They use them in pets too

The local animal control ordinance requires microchipping of all dogs.

I figure within five to ten years they'll require microchipping of all children, too.

[NicoleM]

13. It's scary but

this is something the fundies will be good for--I find it extremely unlikely that they're going to let the Mark of the Beast be implanted in them without a huge fight.

[reachout]

15. And of course,

it would be impossible for a government agency to figure out how to tap into this frequency and track your movements.