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Chips under the skin: 'convenient' but not wise : Comments

By Mal Fletcher, published 27/5/2015

Implants may appear convenient, but we must consider whether or not we want our bodies to become hackable devices.

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Hackability requires a connection, either wireless or a line!

Given neither would apply to under skin chips, but require physical contact of some sort; say a magnetic instrument held close to bare skin?

The feared outcome is hardly likely to arise?

We will always find some people who fear the future or change, which will likely include unhackable quantum computing; I say, let the chips and properly informed personal choice fall where they may!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 11:37:39 AM
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Watch out microchip hosts:

The author is right to be concerned about "Super-computers, like IBM’s famous Watson machine, allow the speedy analysis of all this information and the discovery of patterns within it....For all its benefits, however, Big Data remains a form of soft surveillance."

There is "soft" surveillance by companies of a person's Googling, supermarket purchases, metadata and other actions on computers for for commercial reasons.

Microchipping of people for "hard" (ie. security) surveillance purposes might be even more intrusive because:

- "NSAs" have more supercomputer processing and storage capacity than any organisation to follow on-person microchips and then store people's activity Forever IF there is legal justifications (laws, regulations etc) provided for such storage

- by law NSAs can require telcos and ISPs to reveal their records - not yet about microchips but that might be next

- on-person microchips could send data by wifi to a person's innocent looking mobiles or to home computers...opening up incredible surveillance opportunities

- any sensors anywhere (not only CCTV) but in your car or any manmade object could potentially intercept on-person microchip signals. Great for recording your movements, actions and, of course, location at any time. Whoever/whatever you are sleeping with...

Whole classes of people, eg. Palestinians living in Israel, may need to watchout what authorities gradually require...

- hook a microchip up to your eyes or brain...
Just wait.

One shouldn't agree to be microchipped (like a dog) lightly.
Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 6:02:34 PM
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It started with tattoos and piercings - apparently being born in the image of God is not enough for some, who despise freedom, whose role-models are prisoners and who are more intimately comfortable with electronic devices than with their own spouse.

Ever wonder why we got bodies in the first place?
Posted by Yuyutsu, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 8:15:44 PM
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Mmmm... chips.

I like chips.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 9:46:33 PM
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The propensity of the paranoid* to imagine their brains are being "watched by chips" that are secretly implanted could become a problem. This is given future advances that may make possible secret implanting of very very tiny plastic chips that are very difficult to detect .

* Take Monis for example http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-28/sydney-siege-inquest-man-monis-thought-people-read-his-mind/650289
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:59:30 PM
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I'm prepared to have a chip on my shoulder, if that helps?
Posted by Craig Minns, Thursday, 28 May 2015 1:06:33 PM
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