From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 18:07:02 MST
--- Artillo5@cs.com wrote:
> "Florida Firm Seeks to Microchip Americans"
>
>
http://www.azcentral.com/news/reuters/stories/TECH-TECH-IDENTIFICATION-DC.shtm
> l
>
> Interesting article... HMMM now couple this with the recent acts of
> the US government relating to "Homeland Security" and you have the
> seeds for a
> full-fledged police state! Who says Big Brother isn't watching??? I
> sure as hell hope this technology is going to only be used
> beneficially, but somehow in the end I doubt it.
Don't think that this is some huge change. The chip in question has
been used for a decade already in pets, and has been promoted in other
anglosphere countries for keeping track of kids for a while now.
Furthermore, if you have a cell phone, you are likely already 'chipped'
and don't know it. All of the new digital cell phones (3G cellphones in
IEEE terminology) are required to have GPS chips in them so that any
cell phone, active or not, can be located if it has a charged battery,
and thus whoever is in posession of said cellphone can also be located
(note: even a deactivated cellphone can still dial 911, so it's really
not totally inactive) It is also a crime to disable this GPS chip....
this includes a number of other G7 nations as well as the US.
Furthermore, digitally encrypted phone conversations are not that
strongly encrypted, they generally rely on an 11 bit encryption
algorithm that originated from a French intelligence agency which is
rather easy to break after only a minute of conversation. Since Echelon
functions based on voiceprint matching as well as keyword sifting, the
idea that conventional commercial technologies will offer any sort of
privacy is a loony tune one.
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