Human chips

this article is about implanting radio chips inside a human to easily identify them.

Microchips in humans: High-tech helpers or Big Brother surveillance?

The rational is that the "chipped" humans are permitted into various high security places like a police lock up , nuclear plant , etc ,etc.


Darks, the CityWatcher.com executive, said his employees volunteered to be chipped. "You would think that we were going around putting chips in people by force," he told a reporter, "and that's not the case at all."


Ah yes, we have a position open for employment that suits you perfectly. But you have to submit to having a radio chip placed in your arm. No ? I'm afraid you must seek employment elsewhere then.

Currently the chips have their own problems. They just transmit an unchanging 16 bit number for example. Some theif points a detector at you , gets the number and then tapes a transmitter on his arm transmitting the same number, thats all she wrote, he's now in like flynn to your nuclear reactor.

But even assuming this problem is fixed somehow, you still have the problem displayed first in the movie "The Demolitions Man" , where the criminal simply ripped the eye ball out of the prison warden and used it to get past those retina scanners and get out. You got a chip in your hand ? Someone's going to cut that arm off and use it to pass the security , guarenteed. Been in at least three movies that I can recall , so it's going to be the first thing every criminal thinks of when confronted with it.

Then there's the cigarette problem. Restaurants cater to crowds. In every crowd of three or more there's almost certain to be a smoker. And so that crowd will only go to a smoking permitted restaurant. The restaurants can be smoking or non smoking as they like , but if they're non smoking they usually go bankrupt ... ergo... every restaurant and bar in Ottawa was a smoking place , 100% of them. So if you were a non-smoker , you couldn't actually go anywhere. No one wanted your business. You were the minority that it wasn't profitable to cater to. So the only place in all of Ottawa you could go to to escape the cigarette smoke was your own home. Unless your wife smoked too. Until Ottawa introduced a no smoking ban on all public places.

If the chip (unjustly) gets a reputation of heightenned security, everyone will demand you use it , and you won't be able to opt out because that means you won't be able to work in this country ...

And if everyone is using it , every criminal will quickly figure out how to circumvent it (scanner or knife), and so you've actually put your employee's in danger without actually increasing security any.

The chip is medically intrusive and provides only the most questionable of security enhancements. This particular version with it's static unchanging number is too easily defeated to be worth anything , and any version with it's "just cut the guys hand off and stick it on the scanner" solution remains both questionable, and a hazard to the health of the bearer.