ID Cards and Verichip

ID Cards and The Implantable Microchip 

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The purpose of this page is to look into the implications of The ID cards, and information about it's successor The Microchip. This thread's purpose is to focus on verifiable information and facts, presented in a clear and concise way.



For more information and to register your support against ID cards visit -
http://www.no2id.net/

For more information about the microchip, visit Verichip's website, the current world number one supplier and manufacturer -
http://www.verichipcorp.com/

The issue of microchip implantation, and it's implications, and also it's inevitable replacement for ID cards will be looked at in depth here.

The most pressing issue at this current time is The ID Cards, which are soon to become mandatory.
See the recent news article from BBC below -

ID cards 'to be made compulsory

Identity cards will be made compulsory if Labour wins the next election, Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said.

Under the current scheme all passport applicants from 2008 will have to get an ID card - although there will be a brief opt-out period until 2010.



But Mr Clarke said he plans legislation after the next election to make it compulsory for everyone to get a card, whether or not they have a passport.

The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats both oppose ID cards.

But Mr Clarke said he did not think the opposition would be able to stop the scheme because by 2010 a "large number of people... should either have cards or hope to have cards".

"I would be very surprised if the next Conservative manifesto said 'stop the scheme'. It would be very difficult to do," he said.

'Foolish opt-out'

Between 2008 and summer 2010 people applying for a passport will be able to opt-out of having an identity card, but not from having their details entered on the ID card database.

And although Mr Clarke stressed prices had yet to be worked out there will be no discount for those who opt out.

He said the opt-out had been introduced to allay fears expressed in the House of Lords that cards would be "foisted" on people.

But he added: "I don't think there is any benefit in opting out at all. Anyone who opts out in my opinion is foolish."

He declined to give further details of the costs, but ministers have already said the combined cost of a passport and ID card will be £93.

Clarke 'ruse'

Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis said: "When people are told they will have to pay for an ID card whether or not they opt to have one, this will make them even more resentful of this system.

"Under a Conservative government, the scheme would be scrapped and the savings put to other uses - including strengthening our security."

But the Lib Dems accused the Conservatives of being duped by Labour into backing the opt-out plan in a crunch Commons vote on Wednesday.

Home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said: "Within hours of parading their so-called compromise the Home Office is already making it clear that it was little more than a tactical manoeuvre to ram this legislation through Parliament without any substantive change to the Draconian reach and financial costs of the ID database.

"It begs the question whether the Conservatives really knew what they were doing when they fell into line with Charles Clarke's ruse."

'Potential benefits'

Mr Clarke said he believed there was an "appetite" among the public for ID cards, which he said would bring "massive benefits" for banks, law enforcement agencies and "the individual citizen".

The scheme would "enable every citizen in this country, over time, to protect their identity from people who seek to defraud," he added.

Banks will be able to check people are who they say they are on the government's national identity database.

The "potential benefits to the private sector" of ID cards added up to £425m a year, said Mr Clarke.

The Department of Work and Pensions would also be able to use the register to check the identity of benefit claimants and combat fraud.

'Background checks'

The government is launching a new Identity and Passport Service on 1 April, incorporating the existing UK Passport Service, to administer the scheme.

Interviews will begin "later this year" for passport applicants.

People applying for passports will have to visit their local passport office where they will be interviewed, fingerprinted and have "background checks" carried out on them.

Their details will be entered on to the database and they will be issued with an identity card, although they will not be forced by law to carry it.

About 80% of the UK population has a passport and all will have to be renewed within the next 10 years, at an initial rate of about 7 million people a year, a Home Office spokesman said.

Mr Clarke was not willing to set a date for ID cards becoming compulsory, saying it would depend on the rate at which passports were renewed, he told reporters in a briefing at the Home Office as the current plans became law.

(From http://news.bbc.co.uk)

After reading the above and bearing in mind that we are highly unlikely to have a change in leadership at the next election, we can see that we are indeed facing mandatory Identification cards, regardless of public opinion, human rights groups, and government opposition.

The Implantable Chip


Above - Mexicans recieve The VeriChip for Solusat medical program & Veriguard Security Company - July 2004


"This sounds like science fiction to me, are you really trying to tell me that after ID cards, people will have to have an implantable chip, that can be traced, and that will contain all their information on a database? This would never be accepted"

It already has been accepted!

The Verichip has already had many implantations world wide, and growing ever more popular, especially in the workplace.

Have a look at the following press release from Verichip



Monday March 20 2006

172 New Physicians Elect to Offer VeriMed ID System to Patients

Interest at Leading Medical Industry Event Increases Physician Adoption to 232

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2006--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX - News), announced today that 172 new physicians registered to provide the VeriMed(TM) Patient Identification System to select patients at the recently completed American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) 2006 Annual Symposium held March 16-19 in Dallas. Overall, since the FDA granted clearance of VeriChip for medical applications, 232 doctors have elected to provide the System. 80 hospitals and medical facilities nationwide previously agreed to adopt the VeriMed Patient Identification System for patient identification.

"We believe the strong acceptance that the VeriMed Patient Identification System achieved at this key industry conference represents a significant step in developing widespread acceptance of VeriChip," said VeriChip Corporation Chief Executive Officer Kevin McLaughlin. "It is essential for physicians, who will be implementing the implantation process, to recognize the important role that the VeriChip can play in providing immediate access to medical records in critical care situations. Moreover, while some early adopters learn of VeriMed on their own, we expect many patients to first learn of VeriMed from their physicians. Last year, we signed up many new hospitals at the American College of Emergency Physicians' Scientific Assembly. We will continue to target leading healthcare industry events as a cost-effective way to rapidly expand adoption of the VeriMed Patient Identification System."

VeriMed is the first and only FDA-cleared patient identification system using implantable RFID technology, consisting of a handheld reader, a microchip approximately the size of a grain of rice (containing a unique 16-digit ID number), and a secure, patient database. Using the handheld reader, healthcare professionals are able to securely obtain a patient's unique ID contained in the microchip in their right arm. They then look up the ID in a patient-designated, secure healthcare information database - either through the facility's electronic medical record system or through VeriChip's secure Web site. For the thousands of patients presenting in emergency departments each day either unconscious or unable to communicate for themselves due to medical conditions, VeriMed offers a secure, rapid and accurate solution to accessing their medical information.

About VeriChip Corporation

VeriChip Corporation, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, develops, markets and sells radio frequency identification, or RFID, systems used to identify, locate and protect people and assets. VeriChip's goal is to become the leading provider of RFID systems for people in the healthcare industry. VeriChip sells passive RFID systems for identification purposes and active RFID system for local-area location and identification purposes. VeriChip recently began to market its VeriMed(TM) patient identification system which is used to rapidly and accurately identify people who arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. VeriChip's VeriMed(TM) patient identification system uses the first human-implantable passive RFID microchip, the implantable VeriChip(TM), cleared for medical use in October 2004 by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

About Applied Digital - "The Power of Identification Technology"

Applied Digital develops innovative identification and security products for consumer, commercial, and government sectors worldwide. The Company's unique and often proprietary products provide identification and security systems for people, animals, the food supply, government/military arena, and commercial assets. Included in this diversified product line are RFID applications, end-to-end food safety systems, GPS/Satellite communications, and telecomm and security infrastructure, positioning Applied Digital as the leader in identification technology. Applied Digital is the owner of a majority position in Digital Angel Corporation.

From http://www.verichipcorp.com

Ther are many news stories I could quote reporting the success and widespread implantation of verichip but suffice to say the the system is already in use and growing ever more populalar. Visit verichips site above for their latest news.

Being aware that the system is already in use and popular does not automatically equal that they are set to take over the soon to be mandatory ID cards, or illustrate how the whole ID card system in place paves the way for that. One point to bear in mind is this -

Think of any similar system using card identification, Drivers Licenses, Cash Cards, Passports, Credit Cards etc. All have been forged. The Cloning of credit cards is now a popular occurence! The ID cards will of course be subject to the same attacks.
And of course, the issue of losing cards will also need to be solved, especially when the public have to pay a high charge for replacement, and a total undermining of the system.

Human Implanted chips popular with nightclubs and bars!



GLASGOW SCOTLAND
Microchip to allow wallet-free drinking
By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent
The Telegraph 17/01/2005

A Scottish nightclub is about to become the first in Britain to offer its customers the chance to have a microchip implanted in their arm to save them carrying cash.

The "digital wallet", the size of a grain of rice, guarantees entry to the club and allows customers to buy drinks on account. Brad Stevens, owner of Bar Soba in Glasgow, said his customers had responded enthusiastically to the idea.

The VeriChip is inserted by a medical professional and then scanned for its unique ID number as a customer enters the bar.

"There are a number of advantages, from instant access, to not having to carry money or credit cards, to letting bar staff know a customer's name and favourite drink," said Mr Stevens. "By the time you walk through the door to the bar, your favourite drink is waiting for you and the bar staff can greet you by name."

However, he said the bar would also have to make sure that customers with the chip had a limit on how much they could spend to prevent them drinking beyond their ability to pay.

The scheme was criticised by a spokesman for the Scottish Executive, who said the microchip could encourage excessive drinking, and by Notags, a consumer group set up to resist the spread of radio frequency identification devices.

A spokesman said: "The chip contains your name and ID number and, as this could be read remotely without your knowledge, that is already too much information."

BARCELONA
VIP Madness
2004-07-09


A nightclub in Spain is taking excessive measures to help their VIPs feel that little bit more exclusive.
Privileged members at the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona are being offered the chance to have a unique microchip implanted under their skin, which will save them having to carry around a membership card.

The technology also means members can leave their credit cards at home as paying for drinks can be done by waving their arm over a scanner.
(from sasha promotions)


I've got you under my skin

A number of VIP clubbers at a Barcelona nightclub have been implanted with a chip in their upper arm. But, as Andrew Losowsky reports, the potential uses of the technology could be wide ranging

Thursday June 10, 2004
The Guardian

'Let's dance," screams the DJ from his fake speedboat. Britney blasts out and the scantily clad crowd goes wild. Every weekend, Baja Beach Club in Barcelona is filled with bare flesh, much of it courtesy of their topless barmen and bikinied waitresses. But it is what's under the skin that's causing a fuss.
Two months ago, Baja announced it would be the first nightclub in the world to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated entry card. Those who wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their skin. The chip not only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit account from which they can pay for drinks.

"One of our owners wanted to do something special for our new VIP section," says Steve van Soest, spokesman for the club. "He'd read about the chip in newspapers, so we started to see if it was possible and legal here in Spain. It was." Since its launch, 25 people have had the chip injected into their upper arm by a registered doctor at the club, which also plans to use the technology in its sister club in Rotterdam.

The chip was unveiled at a Paris technology conference in November. Potential applications are, according to its Florida-based manufacturer Advanced Digital Solutions (ADS), "a variety of security, defence and secure-access applications, such as government and private sector facilities."

The chip is about the size of a grain of rice, doesn't set off airport scanners and contains no power supply. It sits dormant under your skin until a scanner is passed over it, sending out a low-range radio frequency. The chip responds to the signal and supplies the scanner with its unique ID number. How that number is used depends on the database the scanner is hooked up to: in the case of Baja Beach Club, it's the balance on the person's bar account. The chip's useful lifespan is around 20 years.

All this probably sounds familiar to pet owners. The technology was developed 15 years ago by Digital Angel, a subsidiary of ADS, for tracking pets and livestock. The VeriChip is essentially the same radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip "with additional safeguards added for human use", according to its spokesman, Andrea Fulcher.

"Before I got the chip, they injected me with a local anaesthetic," says Antoine Hazelaar, a club promoter based in Barcelona. "It didn't hurt at all. And now I'm not even sure where on my arm it is."

If VeriChip becomes a success in other locations, Hazelaar won't need to have others implanted - it would merely be a matter of his unique ID number being transferred to their databases.

"If the government offered this as a choice, saying you can put your ID card, your social security card and your credit card away and just have this, I'd sign immediately," he says. "I wouldn't have to carry around my wallet. If I need to go to hospital, even if I'm unconscious, they could just scan and get my records."

However, not everyone is so keen. "We are totally against the implanting of RFID chips into humans," says Chris McDermott, of the anti-RFID group Notags, which was formed to protest against companies that trace their products through electronic tagging. "As with many projects, they always start out being fairly innocuous but never stay that way for long. The chip contains your name and ID number, and as this could be read remotely without your knowledge, that is already too much information."

Andrea Fulcher, of ADS, says she doesn't understand why people may be afraid of having the chip. "It is strictly voluntary and, in the future, we see many benefits for users." She also points out that the chip is easy to remove if you change your mind. The company is working on evolutionary developments, including chips that contain GPS trackers.

Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in keeping with the surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place, because it's so body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelona e-magazine Le cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bodies, people are attracted by the superficiality. And these kinds of people will be interested in having a chip inside them, paying special attention to their bodies."

From http://technology.guardian.co.uk/

Implanted chip ID tags are getting under the skin

By Theresa Bradley
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

May 1, 2005

It took the young emergency-room doctor three days to identify the unconscious El Salvadoran man wheeled into a Los Angeles hospital with his head bashed in.

Tracing trails of receipts, clothes tags and phone numbers, Dr. John Halamka got good at tracking down the names and medical histories of "John" and "Jane Doe" patients. "Arthur Conan Doyle would've been proud," he recalled.

But Halamka also daydreamed of ways to make the sleuthing unnecessary, saving time and lives. When he heard of VeriChip, a computer-linked ID tag that can be implanted in the human body, he decided to test one out himself.



On Halamka's lunch break one day last December, a colleague at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where Halamka is now chief information officer, injected the tiny microchip under the skin of his right upper arm.

Halamka had been "chipped," joining some 1,000 people implanted with the device worldwide, the chipmaker says. Implants are intended to track easily disoriented Alzheimer's patients, give the chronically ill quick access to complex medical records and restrict entry to high-security areas.

Because it's imbedded in the flesh, the tag can't be stolen or lost. "It is always there when needed," chip designer Dr. Richard Seelig told a federal panel last January.

VeriChip is the first tag patented and marketed for use in humans. More than 8,000 have been sold to distributors since 2002, according to Florida-based Applied Digital, the parent company of VeriChip.

Doctors certified by the company purchase, resell and administer the microchips, which are the size of a grain of rice. The procedure involves a quick syringe injection and costs about $200.

The radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology that VeriChip employs has revolutionized manufacturing, retail and security businesses.

The microchips act as wireless bar codes, receiving and transmitting data via radio waves, tracking goods from assembly line to store shelf, verifying passports and security codes, and tracing the movements of livestock and pets.

Now the chips are being used to tag humans.

To date, most of VeriChip's customers are outside the United States, particularly from Latin America, where the chip could deter kidnappings. Officials in the Mexican attorney general's office have been implanted with the device to access high-security areas. Meanwhile, chipped VIPs at a Barcelona nightclub can pay for drinks by waving their hands under a scanner.

In the United States, the FDA approved VeriChip for medical use last October.

"This is not something the man on the street is going to walk in and say, 'Give me a VeriChip!'" said Angela Fulcher, vice president of marketing for the firm. "But the people who need it can really perceive the advantage."

In 2002, Jeff and Leslie Jacobs and their then-14-year-old son became the first humans ever implanted with the device.

Jeff Jacobs had been fighting Hodgkin's disease and a string of degenerative diseases for more than 25 years, making frantic trips to the emergency room.

His wife always carried a scrunched-up list of her husband's frequently changing medications in her wallet. Soon, she said, she won't have to worry: Doctors will simply scan her husband's arm and use the ID number imbedded there to access his medical records in a VeriChip database.

At Jacobi Medical Center in New York, tagged hospital bracelets already ease patient care, saving more than 10 hours of nursing time a day, according to chief information officer Dan Morreale.

"I would put a chip in myself, absolutely," he said. "It's a question of, 'Does the convenience and benefit outweigh the risk?' That's a question you have to answer yourself."

Still, VeriChip has yet to catch on with the general public because the infrastructure to support it is not yet in place. Maryland internist Albert Lee has 20 chips in stock at his Bethesda office, but not a single customer, he said, because most hospitals aren't equipped to detect the device.

Human tagging raises a host of ethical qualms as well. Defenders insist the system is hard to break into, and stress that the chip is implanted only with patient consent.

But privacy advocates decry the device as a forerunner to "Big Brother," and on the Internet, several fundamentalist Christian groups have lambasted the chip as "the mark of Satan."

Some researchers worry the system is hackable. At the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, Dr. Avi Rubin last year led a team that cracked the security code encrypting a similar device in remote-control car keys.

Rubin fears the stealthy abuse of human chipping. "Imagine you had a spouse you didn't trust, and you managed to implant one of these in them when they were sleeping," he said. Install a chip-scanner near where you believe your spouse is having an affair, and a pager could alert you every time your spouse appeared.

Unbeknownst to most Americans, RFID chips are already prevalent in everyday life. Some 1.8 billion tags have been sold to date; by 2015, that number will exceed 1 trillion, according to industry consultant IDTechEx.

Meanwhile, the tags are used to speed passage through toll booths, track inventory at Wal-Mart and take attendance at school. New U.S. passports will be chipped by next year, and some states are considering following suit with driver's licenses. The U.S. military, which already uses RFID tags to track basics like food supplies, has talked with VeriChip about implanting dog tags under soldiers' skin, Fulcher said.

Verichip and RFID - Monitoring peoples every move

Verichip and RFID

How does it work?

The RFID device works by transmitting a radio signal from the implant in the human (containing the persons unique information) to a reciever such as a satellite, antenna, or portable reader such as a door sensor or hand held reader. (see the diagram below illustating basic transmission from human to device).



Unlike a hand held reader, a satellite could recieve your radio signal, and information, no matter what your location.

I am a radio technician, and a few points for the reader to bear in mind are this.
Radio signals work on a line of sight basis, for example, If I was using a 5 watt walkie talkie UHF (direct, handset to handset without using a repeater or relay) in a built up area such as a city centre with high buildings at a distance of half a mile communications should be fairly OK. However, at about a mile or more the transmission would become scratchy, and after a few miles possibly impossible to recieve, however, if I was to stand on top of a tall building such as a skyscraper, at the same distance my range would be increased by many miles.
Similarily, using the same radio at in an aeroplane from great height, it would be no problem to talk clearly from the UK to the states.



Another point to bear in mind is this, The Verichip, is a radio transmitter.
If you have a basic knowledge of the inner workings of radio you will note that with a radio transmitting device, such as a walkie talkie, or RFID chip, the power drain is when transmitting, recieving takes almost no power at all.
The basic components of a radio, transmitter, reciever, antenna, are there, it's easy to transmit our data, it's so much more easier to recieve it!




Historical Quotes


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)


"Those who trade freedom for security do not have nor deserve either" - Thomas Jefferson

Verichip share prices hit the roof two years ago when the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to implant microchips into humans.

Published: October 13, 2004

Applied Digital Corp



HERE'S A COMPANY that wants to get under your skin — literally.
Shares of Applied Digital (ADSX: 2.65, 0.00, 0.0%) surged 68% to $3.57 Wednesday after the Delray Beach, Fla., company received the go-ahead from the Food and Drug Administration to implant microchips into humans for medical use. Known as a VeriChip, the radio-frequency identification, or RFID, device is being codeveloped with Digital Angel (DOC: 4.16, -0.03, -0.7%), Applied Digital's publicly traded subsidiary. Digital Angel, based in South St. Paul, Minn., saw its stock climb 29% to $3.49.

"This is a big deal," says Kevin Dede, an analyst at Merriman Curhan Ford. "The major hurdle to overcome is the whole George Orwell '1984' thing, that fear that Big Brother is watching you."

About the size of a grain of rice, a VeriChip can be implanted under the skin, usually on the upper-arm between the elbow and the shoulder. Once inserted there in a brief outpatient procedure involving local anesthetic, the microchip isn't visible to the naked eye. The unique 16-digit verification number transmitted by a VeriChip's radio-frequency signal can only be picked up by a proprietary scanner.

While the technology has a number of potential applications, from security to financial, the FDA's decision only applies to medical uses. In theory, doctors treating a patient implanted with the chip could with the wave of a scanner gain access to a person's medical history, including blood type, drug allergies and pre-existing conditions. That could prove useful in emergency-room situations, in particular, when a patient isn't responsive. The information isn't stored on the chip itself; rather, the verification number on the chip is linked to a database that's accessed via encrypted Internet access.

Though on the surface the idea borders on the realm of fantasy, practical applications have already been found for the chips. Digital Angel, which is 70% owned by Applied Digital, currently uses the technology to track pets and livestock. Applied Digital licenses the technology from Digital Angel. In its written release announcing FDA approval, Applied Digital didn't specify when or how the VeriChip would gain widespread acceptance among the medical community. Company officials couldn't be reached immediately for comment.

Now 16 years old, Applied Digital began as a computer distributor. By 1993, it was specializing in mobile-communication and data collection using wireless computers. The company went public in 1994, and a year later it began an acquisition spree that pulled in an eclectic mix of nearly 100 companies in fields as diverse as computer-aided design, retailing applications and satellite subsystems. It bought Destron Fearing, which had developed an animal-tracking chip, in 2000. Applied combined Destron Fearing with its digital mini-transceiver technology operations to form the subsidiary Digital Angel.

Privacy concerns dogged Applied Digital when it unveiled a chip prototype four years ago. Civil libertarians and others worried the chips could be used to track individuals. At that time the company promised only to use the chips externally and projected a market potential of $70 billion. So far the rosy outlook hasn't panned out. Applied Digital had a net loss of $3.0 million on sales of $26.3 million for its second quarter.

Facing financial pressure to pay back the $100 million it owed to IBM (IBM: 82.34, -1.54, -1.8%) after the chip failed to catch on in 2000, Applied Digital changed chief executives, restructured debt agreements and began selling off assets to raise cash. IBM eventually settled for a $30 payment, and forgave the other $70 million. Applied Digital ultimately narrowed its focus to three divisions: Advanced Technologies, which includes VeriChip; Digital Angel, which was spun off in 2002; and InfoTech USA, which generates most of Applied Digital's revenue. InfoTech installs, maintains and services telecommunication facilities and equipment.

In a sign of acceptance, at least in animals, Digital Angel last month said it planned to sell its tracking chips to the Canadian government, which is funding a national cattle-identification drive in response to a case of mad-cow disease that turned up last year.

Quote:
"The potential market size for the VeriChip is substantial," says Merriman's Dede. "The idea is insurance companies might want this type of identification with transplant patients or new-joint recipients, essentially anyone constantly in and out of hospitals — especially if that person is allergic to standard medications. The profitability potential is immense. But obviously it's a matter of volume." (Dede, who thinks there's potential for the VeriChip to replace traditional military dog tags, doesn't own shares of Applied Digital or Digital Angel; Merriman Curhan Ford doesn't have an investment-banking relationship with either company.)

VeriChip Corporation's VeriMed System for Patient Identification Selected by 13 New Hospitals

April 24 2006

97 Healthcare Facilities Have Now Agreed to Implement the VeriMed Patient Identification System

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2006--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX - News), announced today that 13 additional healthcare facilities have agreed to implement the VeriMed(TM) System for Patient Identification. The new hospitals bring the total healthcare facilities that have agreed to implement the System to 97. Many of the new hospital signed up after attending the Emergency Medicine Spring Conference in Las Vegas, sponsored by the American College of Emergency Physicians' (ACEP) Scientific Assembly, held from April 19 to April 21st.

"We are pleased that the increasing recognition of the critical role that the VeriMed(TM) System can play in healthcare facilities is driven growing adoption of the System," said VeriChip Corporation Chief Executive Officer Kevin McLaughlin. "Appearances at industry-leading events such as ACEP, where the Company generated significant recognition, as well as favorable coverage from leading medical industry publications, should continue to expand the number of hospitals and physicians utilizing the System."

An article highlighting the growth of the VeriMed System was recently featured in a story in American Medical News, a publication directed to physicians in private practice and physicians on hospital and managed care staffs, in military service and on medical faculties. Of a total print circulation of over 230,000, about 90% are physicians, primarily office-based doctors in five primary-care specialties.



172 New Physicians Elect to Offer VeriMed ID System to Patients


March 20 2006

Interest at Leading Medical Industry Event Increases Physician Adoption to 232

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2006--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX - News), announced today that 172 new physicians registered to provide the VeriMed(TM) Patient Identification System to select patients at the recently completed American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) 2006 Annual Symposium held March 16-19 in Dallas. Overall, since the FDA granted clearance of VeriChip for medical applications, 232 doctors have elected to provide the System. 80 hospitals and medical facilities nationwide previously agreed to adopt the VeriMed Patient Identification System for patient identification.

"We believe the strong acceptance that the VeriMed Patient Identification System achieved at this key industry conference represents a significant step in developing widespread acceptance of VeriChip," said VeriChip Corporation Chief Executive Officer Kevin McLaughlin. "It is essential for physicians, who will be implementing the implantation process, to recognize the important role that the VeriChip can play in providing immediate access to medical records in critical care situations. Moreover, while some early adopters learn of VeriMed on their own, we expect many patients to first learn of VeriMed from their physicians. Last year, we signed up many new hospitals at the American College of Emergency Physicians' Scientific Assembly. We will continue to target leading healthcare industry events as a cost-effective way to rapidly expand adoption of the VeriMed Patient Identification System."

VeriMed is the first and only FDA-cleared patient identification system using implantable RFID technology, consisting of a handheld reader, a microchip approximately the size of a grain of rice (containing a unique 16-digit ID number), and a secure, patient database. Using the handheld reader, healthcare professionals are able to securely obtain a patient's unique ID contained in the microchip in their right arm. They then look up the ID in a patient-designated, secure healthcare information database - either through the facility's electronic medical record system or through VeriChip's secure Web site. For the thousands of patients presenting in emergency departments each day either unconscious or unable to communicate for themselves due to medical conditions, VeriMed offers a secure, rapid and accurate solution to accessing their medical information.

From - www.verichipcorp.com

DARPA and The Verichip, Implications

DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.
http://www.darpa.mil



D.A.R.P.A. IS FUNDING AN IMPLANTABLE CHIP FAR MORE ADVANCED THAN VERICHIP

We explain the actual science of MMEA in this article so you can see how all humans implanted can be completely controlled by this implantable chip!
Emotions - fear, euphoria, depression, plus pleasure and pain, can be controlled and even caused, by R.F.(Radio-Frequency signal)!
Large funding has gone into this, RFID is just the "tip of the iceberg".

For many years, Christians have looked at the development of an implantable device as one of the signs that the Kingdom of the Antichrist is drawing close.

When Digital Angel publicly began to promote their human implantable chip, Christians the world over gasped in excitement that an implantable chip was now on the world scene, being promoted for all the medical, financial, and personal benefits it could provide the human host.

However, behind the scenes and avoiding the press, DARPA "Antiterrorist" organization headed by Admiral John Poindexter began to pump significant dollars of research behind a new implantable chip called MMEA.

MMEA or Multiple Micro Electrode Array.
This chip is so far ahead of the Digital Angel Veri-Chip product, it would take your breath away. Once you fully understand its capability, you will realise its full significance, and that we may have been pointed to Digital Angel simply so we would not be aware of MMEA.

Terms

* BMI - Brain Machine Interface: Technically, this term defines the project on which scientists have been working, or the type of Hardware and Software used to connect the Brain or Nervous system to a computer. Please understand that this chip is designed to work within the nerves and soft tissue of the body in order to gather electrical signals from the body and/or transmit electrical signals received from the outside to the body through the nerves!

Brain Machine Interface is simply the computer software that will send out the signal to the chip; therefore, BMI is the software that will interact with the chip, to control the chip and the person in whom the chip is inserted!

* MMEA, Multiple Micro Electrode Array: Multiple Micro Electrode Array, this is the actual Chip. This chip will be surgically implanted directly into a human nerve or into specific area of the brain. The Chip at the moment is a little smaller than a Tic Tac breath mint. The chip implanted into the pioneer, a Professor Kevin Warwick, had 100 Electrodes; each electrode looks like a small needle and is capable of detecting electric signals traveling through the nervous system and also sending electrical signals to the nervous system, this was all performed via a RF (Radio Frequency) device connected to the MMEA.

As highlighted above, this implantable chip is far ahead of anything Digital Angel has on the market, further, MMEA is light-years ahead of the RFID technology which retailers like Wal-Mart have raced into production. As we unfold the science of this chip, you will see that it offers a repressive global government the capability of controlling entire captive populations with a sophisticated software program!


Above - A US soilder belonging to DARPA

Recording From Biological Tissue

"The essential requirements for a working multiple-microelectrode to record from biological tissue include:

1. A conductor forming the active electrode and the tracks, e.g. indium-tin oxide (ITO), titanium nitride;

2. An electrical insulation layer, e.g. polysiloxane, polyimide, or silicon nitride;

3. The microelectrode must be biocompatible, resistant to a physiological saline environment and sterilisation, and easily maintained in cell culture conditions for many days or weeks."[Neuronal Networks

Electrophysiology Laboratory, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham Medical School]

Carefully contemplate the basic requirement listed above for an MMEA: "to record from biological tissue"

One of the fundamental goals of the MMEA is to intercept and record electrical impulses from biological tissue. Currently, extensive tests are being carried out on human subjects to discover the exact electrical frequency of a wide variety of human emotions, feelings, and various mechanical actions. Each different emotion and/or feeling has a slightly different radio frequency! Therefore, by intercepting and recording the exact frequency of each emotion and/or feeling from their human test subjects, the exact frequency of each feeling can be identified and then stored into the BMI -- Brain Machine Interface software!

At some future point, a person may be sent a signal from an RF transmitter that will give that person pleasure or pain, with the exact frequency coming from the BMI software! Or, the exact frequency of various mechanical orders the brain is continuously giving the muscles can be recorded and stored in the Brain Machine Interface Software; this type of software capability seems to have great promise for people suffering neural damage that prevents them from walking, for example.

How scientists plan on doing this in theory is very simple. A person's body functions by small amounts of electrical energy sent in patterns that determines what a person wants to do, operating much like the Binary Code of a Personal Computer. The Brain acts a processor, sending electrical signals in proper sequence throughout the nervous system to tell the specific parts of our body what to do. These signals also travel back to our brains to tell us what we Feel, See, Hear and Smell.

If we have a device implanted into a specific area of our nervous system which has the ability to detect these electrical patterns and then transmit to a computer with special software to record and analyze this data, we can, for example, determine what types of electrical patterns make us move our leg up or down. If this data was transferred to a central computer for analyzing and storage then it could be transferred back to the nervous system. This data from one person can even be transmitted to another person, or to many other persons, making them move their leg up or down, or making them feel a great variety of emotions and feelings, and/or do a variety of actions that the controller wants them to do.

Instilling Thoughts In A Person's Brain

NEWS BRIEF: "Defense Department funding brain-machine work", Tuesday, August 5, 2003, BY GARETH

COOK, The Boston Globe, reprinted in The Post and Courier, Chareleston.net, http://www.charleston.net

"What most people don't know is that the Department of Defense is already funding a research program with far creepier implications. The $24 million enterprise called Brain Machine Interfaces is developing technology that promises to directly read thoughts from a living brain -- and even instill thoughts as well. The research, some of which is being done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is already surprisingly advanced.

Monkeys in a laboratory can control the movement of a robotic arm using only their thoughts. And last year scientists in New York announced they could control the skittering motions of a rat by implanting electrodes in its brain, steering it around the lab floor as if it were a radio-controlled toy car."

"It does not take much imagination to see in this the makings of a 'Matrix'-like cyberpunk dystopia: chips that impose false memories, machines that scan for wayward thoughts, cognitively augmented government security forces that impose a ruthless order on a recalcitrant population. It is one thing to propose a tasteless market for gambling on terrorism. It is quite another to set some of the nation's top neuroscientists to work on mind control."

As you can see, this research is getting to be quite advanced. However, we must not lose sight of the original brains behind this technology -- Professor Kevin Warwick -- and how he and his wife are currently conducting very specific research.

Brief Bio of The Professor

The leading scientist in this entire field is Professor Kevin Warwick: "Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control and robotics. Kevin has published over 300 research papers and his latest paperback In the Mind of the Machines gives a warning of a future in which machines are more intelligent than humans ... In 1998 he shocked the international scientific community by having a silicon chip transponder surgically implanted in his left arm. A series of further implant experiments have taken place in which Kevin’s nervous system was linked to a computer ...

Kevin's new implant experiment called 'Project Cyborg' got underway in March 2002 and is providing exciting results." see -
http://www.kevinwarwick.com

The In/Out Principle

NEWS BRIEF: "Brain-Machine Interfaces: Current and Future Applications", CHI Labs

"The purpose of Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) research is to create outputs from or inputs to the brain that are additional to those that occur naturally. There are two possible directions of data flow (data from the brain to outside machinery and data to the brain from outside machinery). In whole, this research suggests that the brain is a much more adaptable organ than it is commonly thought to be."

Did you catch the extremely important phrase? "create outputs from or inputs to the brain that are additional to those that occur naturally".

In computer language, if there is a way out then there is a way in. Kevin Warwick has already started work on this principle in experiments with his wife; there is nothing mysterious here about their manner of exchanging feelings. Basically, what is happening is simply understood; the electrical signals that are detected by the MMEA in one person -- Kevin, for example, touching his arm -- are transferred via RF from the Chips transceiver to a RF receiver. This sends the signal to a remote computer for analysis and storage.

Then, if the command is given, the data can be forwarded to another person -- his wife in this current round of experiments -- who will have the same MMEA Chip with I/O capability and an RF link. This chip will then be told by the RF signal to send the same patterns of electrical signals to the nerve via the electrodes which should in theory reproduce the same action and or feeling that was originally performed and felt by Kevin.

In other words, if Keven touches his arm, his wife should feel a touching sensation in her arm, in the same place and to the same degree that Kevin felt it when he touched his arm. Theoretically, Kevin could touch his arm in London and his wife could feel a touch in her arm in the same place and to the same degree, even if she were in New York City!

Now, if this device will allow that type of activity, then the possibilities are many, if not endless. For example,

Kevin has the idea that pain such as the type that comes from headaches have a specific electrical signal; we could manipulate the nervous system to where we would no longer feel headaches. By altering the electric current, we could also sedate people or reduce the affects of stress by recording our emotional feelings on days that we are happy and simply replay them on days we are feeling depressed. This is just the beginning of possibilities that are being discussed. If there is the possibility of manipulating people's mental and physical feelings and actions, this MMEA toolwould have many practical uses by the medical community, by the individual, but most of all, by the government. Imagine having the ability to direct much needed medicines via this technology to a tumor deep in the brain and have these medicines eradicate a once-fatal condition. Scientists at the University of Michigan areworking on, this very possibility right now.

But, we must also seriously consider the huge potential for tight control over entire populations! It may be possible to sedate an entire population, or to make them think the same thoughts at the same time! Can you imagine this kind of weapon in the hands of world governments?



The Wireless Cloud Experiment

What government wouldn't want the ability to tranquilize a entire city during a Riot, or better yet keep all of its citizens content or happy by continually feeding them prerecorded emotions! Imagine how small Police Forces might become if we could be controlled in this manner. Imagine how thrilled tyrants like Adolf Hitler , Josef Stalin, or Saddam Hussein would have been had they had devices like this, which could control the feelings and emotions of entire populations!



Our government evidently understands the potential of control over entire populations, as evidenced by their recent "Wireless Cloud Experiment"!

NEWS BRIEF: "How can people tap into a wireless 'cloud'?", By Marsha Walton, CNN Sci-Tech, July 31,

2002. "ATHENS, Georgia (CNN) -- Applications for a wireless "cloud" may not seem obvious at first, but organizers of the high-tech project in Athens, Georgia, say there are many ways in which it can be used.

The University of Georgia has joined with local government to create WAG, the Wireless Athens Group. They're building a cloud over several blocks of the downtown area where anyone with the right equipment can have free Internet access.

The cloud now covers about three blocks, and it will soon expand to 24. CNN's Marsha Walton looks into how users can tap into it.

* Sports -- University of Georgia students already have successfully tested some options ... They used wireless technology to provide instant replays on personal digital assistants (PDAs) at a recent college baseball game. for the really devoted (or lazy) fan, students have come up with a prototype for this possibility: Beam your beer and snack order directly to a computer at the concession stand, punch in your seat number, and the food will be delivered. You never have to miss a pitch, a hit, or an argument with the umpire.

* Music -- On any given night in this college town, 40 bands might be taking the stage at local bars and coffee houses. For a student unfamiliar with most of the performers, and unwilling to part with a $3 cover charge for music he or she doesn't like, the wireless "cloud" could provide a chance to sample a song or two from some of these bands.

* Retail -- People walking out of class or an office and in a rush for lunch could pull up a menu from a local restaurant, place an order, even pay online via their PDA. By the time they walked a few blocks to the cafe, their food would be ready to go.

* World market -- A wireless cloud in central or south America could empower people who have little access to telecommunications infrastructure now ... (customers will) be able to communicate at a very cheap rate."

However, this technology has a very dark lining. This same "Wireless Cloud" hovering over a city can also communicate with, and control, MMEA chips implanted in people! Conceivably, RF transmissions from this cloud could cause everyone in whom this chip is implanted to feel euphoria, depression, or any other emotion at the same time, totally at the will of the people controlling the BMI software. If the controllers wanted to sedate the entire population, they could easily do so. If they wanted to implant thoughts in the minds of the people, they conceivably can implant them.

Cheap Technology Even Third World Nations Can Deploy

The Reason that wireless transmission is so cheap is that there is very little hardware to install. All the hardware that is needed is a telecom link to a city; this can be done via Satellite or Land Line Links. From this, all you need to install is an RF transmitter and receiver on the tallest building in the City. Anyone with the proper RF equipment would have constant internet access.

Most remote locations in the Third World are all currently running via RF and Satellite uplinks; in most of these areas, existing phone lines are turn-of-the Century Era Pulse. There are no Coin Digital Lines in many of these places, so most people are using RF in some form for internet access and mobile phones for voice communication; it is very doubtful they will ever run land lines again.

In this manner, Third World Nations seem further along in this particular area than people in more advanced nations. RF is becoming day-to-day use throughout the entire world. and we now see it more and more in day-to-day use.

RFID set to replace Credit Cards

Credit cards tap into radio tags

By Alfred Hermida
BBC News Online technology editor



Forget about using a pen to sign a credit card slip, or even tapping in a secret number. In the future, you could authorise payments by simply moving your finger over your flexible friend.

A leading professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has suggested using radio tags in credit cards as a kind of virtual signature.

Professor Ted Selker said the way someone moved their finger over the card would alter the radio transmission, producing a signal unique to that person.

"I could have some gesture and that would be my signature," he said, "it would be like a personal handshake."

The idea of putting radio tags in credit cards is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Mastercard has been experimenting with the technology, known as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).

US trials

RFID tags are tiny transponders that send out radio signals and some experts predict they will become commonplace over the next decade or so.


"I could draw letters and it would tell just by where my finger is how that is affecting the radio signal, whether or not it was me" Ted Selker, MIT Media Labs

The use of the technology in credit cards has been tested by Mastercard. Last year it ran a nine-month pilot in the US, involving some 15,000 consumers.

People could pay for goods by waving their cards near special tills, which would receive the information transmitted by the cards.

Prof Selker has suggested taking the technology a step further and using the properties of radio waves as a security check.

"By watching a finger moving around an antenna, we can literally see that the finger changes the antenna's behaviour," he told BBC News Online.

"I could draw letters and it would tell just by where my finger is how that is affecting the radio signal, whether or not it was me."

On-off cards

He suggested this could be used to make a RFID system that could complement or replace other ways of authorising a credit card.

"Wouldn't it be great if we could get the protection of having a personal identification number, without having to have a pad to type it into?" asked Prof Selker, who heads the Context Aware Computing group at the MIT's Media Labs.

"Wouldn't it be nice if something better than my signature would be transmitted without me having to use an external device?"

Civil rights groups have expressed concerns about RFID technology for some time. They worry it means people could, in theory, be tracked by the tags.

"You don't necessarily want a credit card that can be detected when you are not using it," said technology expert Bill Thompson. "You want a button that can turn it off or on."

"Otherwise imagine if you are a thief, you just wander around with a RFID detector looking for people with these credit cards."

http://news.bbc.co.uk

AmEx Adds RFID to Blue Credit Cards



The financial services company has started issuing contactless payment cards nationwide for its ExpressPay program.

By Claire Swedberg

June 7, 2005—Starting this month, all Blue cards issued by American Express will come embedded with an RFID transponder that allows customers to pay for goods with the tap of the card against an RFID reader. The cards will retain the traditional magnetic stripe, so they can still be used as regular credit cards when RFID readers are not available. The Blue card's RFID-enabled feature will be accepted by all merchants participating in American Express' ExpressPay program.

Convenience store chain 7-Eleven is the most recent merchant to begin accepting ExpressPay payments. Other stores include some Carls Jr. restaurants, CVS pharmacies (see All CVS Stores to Offer ExpressPay) and Sheetz convenience stores, as well as smaller independent retailers. American Express has completed pilots of the ExpressPay system in New York City and Phoenix, says American Express spokesperson Rosa M. Alphonso, and 7-Eleven ran its own pilot of the system with ExpressPay-enabled point-of-sale terminals in 170 of its stores. With that pilot also complete, the convenience store chain is now rolling out RFID point-of-sale terminals to all of its more than 5,300 U.S. outlets by early 2006.........
See full article here - http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1646/1/1/



Verichip announce intention to replace Credit Cards in November 2003



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.

ExxonMobil's Speedpass, for example, is a key-chain fob containing an RFID tag that is linked to the holder's credit card; users wave the fob in front of a scanner integrated into a gas pump, and their fuel purchase is charged to their credit card account within seconds. Recently more than 400 McDonald's restaurants in the greater Chicago area started using the Speedpass system to allow customers to more conveniently buy their burgers and fries.

Meanwhile, MasterCard is testing an RFID-enabled credit card called PayPass. Like the Speedpass, the revamped card uses RFID to access the user's financial information and obviates the need for signatures or interactions with store clerks. In an interview with USA Today last week, a senior MasterCard executive said the company is considering integrating its RFID technology into other items, such as pens or earrings.

"Ultimately, it could be embedded in anything -- someday, maybe even under the skin," the executive said.

Which is where the VeriChip folks come in. RFID-enabled pens or jewelry could be easily lost or stolen, but RFID-enabled humans are bit harder to tamper with.

"We are the only ones out there offering implantable ID technology," said Silverman, who announced the "VeriPay" service during a speech Friday at ID World 2003 in Paris. "We believe the market will evolve to use our product."

Although he acknowledged that a final product may be a few years away, Silverman invited banks and credit card companies to collaborate in developing commercial applications using VeriPay. In the near future, Silverman said, the chip could be used as an added antifraud device in financial transactions -- ATM users could enter their PIN and get scanned, for example.

Richard M. Smith, a privacy and security consultant, said one of the biggest hurdles facing the VeriPay system might be the squeamishness of potential users.

"VeriPay will offer some conveniences over RFID credit cards, but I think most people will be creeped out with the idea of putting little radio transmitters in their bodies," Smith said.

Meanwhile, Applied Digital has attracted scorn from some fundamentalist Christians, who believe that VeriChip is the fabled "mark of the beast" of biblical lore. According to the book of Revelation, Satan will someday force people to "receive a mark" in their hands or foreheads in order to buy or sell.

"This is a gigantic step toward the mark of the beast, " said Gary Wohlscheid, whose website, These Last Days Ministries, keeps tabs on what many Christians believe are the signs of a coming religious Armageddon. His site is one of dozens that link VeriChip to the apocalyptic prophecy.

Applied Digital officials say such concern is unfounded because people are chipped voluntarily.

The VeriPay service is one of several the company has launched to promote its product. Applied Digital has positioned its microchip as an anti-kidnapping device (VeriKid), emergency ID system (VeriMed) and as a way to control access to secure buildings (VeriGuard).

http://www.wired.com/news/technology


Like It or Not, RFID Is Coming

MARCH 18, 2004

Scott McGregor of Philips Semiconductor, the leader in radio frequency ID chips, says they'll change the world

The decision by Wal-Mart (WMT ) and other retailers to require that their largest suppliers attach inventory-tracking RFID (radio frequency identification) chips to their products is creating a brand-new chip market -- one with a bright future. RFID chips, whose data can be grabbed by electronic readers, could one day hold all of an individual's personal information. In theory, that means they could displace credit cards, medical-insurance cards -- perhaps even wallets, predicts Scott McGregor, CEO of Philips Semiconductors, a division of Koninklijke Philips Electronics (PHG ) and the world's No. 1 maker of RFID chips, which are also known as "tags."

If that comes to pass, RFID could also be an engine of growth for Philips, which now gets 5% of its $4.9 billion in annual revenue from sales of such chips.

On Mar. 15, McGregor talked with BusinessWeek Online reporter Olga Kharif about what he sees as the potential for RFID. Here are edited excerpts of their conversation:

Q: At this point, RFID technology is essentially forced by retailers on their suppliers, who often see few benefits in using this technology. How can you change that?
A: If you're tagging low-cost commodity products, RFID tags need to approach the cost of bar codes (they now cost at least 20 times as much). But for higher-priced or brand-specific articles, there's a lot of value in RFID for manufacturers. It can work as a proof of authenticity.

And for a lot of makers of sports shoes, RFID provides added benefit to customers. The average life of a sports-shoe model is about three months. Say that when your shoes wear out, you want a similar pair. It's incredibly difficult today for the retailer to tell a customer which new model corresponds to the old one. But we could fix that with RFID. That's a great sales tool.

Q: What other applications do you foresee for RFID?
A: Tracking individual items in stores. Medical identification: Your medical information is stored on a chip, so if you have an emergency and are in a hospital, doctors can read your medical history in a secure way. Use in payments: We're working with Visa, which will move from magnetic stripes to contact smart cards and eventually to contactless smart cards (they'll be scanned from a distance, vs. cards that have to be swiped).

You can also put RFID tags in movie posters and advertisements and use your cell phone as a reader to pick up information from the poster. You then go to a Web page or download the trailer of the movie -- plus find out when and where it's showing.

Q: How will RFID technology be used in mobile phones?
A: We're discussing with a number of mobile-phone manufacturers embedding an RFID technology we call NFC, for near-field communications. Then the phone could pick up information from various things, like movie posters, and the tags could allow you to do things like carry an embedded Visa card. You'll see trials of such phones in the U.S. this year.

Q: About your work with Visa: What's wrong with the credit cards now in use?
A: First, RFID offers increased convenience by letting you simply touch something with your card to facilitate a transaction instead of having to swipe the card through a magnetic reader. I'm constantly frustrated when I put a credit card into a reader and the stripe doesn't read or is demagnetized. Plus, contactless payments are cool -- and Visa, when it implements them, will be able to give customers a higher-end, interesting product.

Secondly, if you use magnetic-strip technology, you have to make the strip a certain size and shape for it to work -- it pretty much defines the size of a credit card. With RFID, you have complete freedom on the size and shape of the credit card. You can make it small, the size of a coin, something that fits on your key chain, something that's embedded into your cell phone. That's convenience.

Q: So what would the ultimate shape and size of the credit card be?
A: It's very simple: Credit cards go away in the future, and your phone becomes your credit card. In fact, most of the contents of your wallet go away. Because, if you look at all the cards you carry today, there's no reason you can't have that information secure and separate, stored as part of an RFID tag embedded in your cell phone.

RFID could replace your keys, too. Most car manufacturers we're talking to will have a card you keep in your wallet or embedded into your cell phone. You get in your car, push start, and the reader in the car will read the card in your phone to make sure you're the car's owner.

Or all this information could be embedded into RFID cards on your key chain or in your jewelry. Then, it would give you secure authentication and look nice. This evolution will be slow -- 10 years or 20 years, but you're already starting to see some of it today.

Q: It sounds like RFID will compete, in certain applications, with wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) and Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
A: All of these technologies will be used for different applications, because they're different. Wi-Fi and UWB have very high data rates. They can transmit an entire book in seconds. RFID's speeds are very much slower [NFC is capable of transferring about a megabit per second vs. 100 megabits per second for some kinds of Wi-Fi], and the chip can store only, perhaps, a page of information at a time. You could, potentially, use RFID to transfer an MP3 file onto your phone -- but not a movie or a PowerPoint presentation. You would use Wi-Fi or UWB for that.

But RFID tags have inherent advantages. Chips that we make, for example, don't require a battery, and that makes them very portable. So when you see a movie trailer on your phone, you might buy movie tickets online and store the code that you must present at the theater as proof of purchase on your RFID tag.

Q: So I could use my RFID tag for data storage?
A: Exactly. For example, I might have a business card with an RF tag. If you put your phone, which has an RFID reader and tag, next to one of my business cards, you would instantly pick up the information from my business card (which also contains an RFID tag). I could also have my business card be my phone. We could put our phones together and exchange our information. It's an intuitive thing to do.

Our RF tags would allow users to store this information on the tags themselves or on their phones' flash memory -- the predominant type of storage on cell phones today.

Q: A lot of companies want to play in the RFID market. These chips are relatively simple. How do you differentiate your chips from those of other companies'?
A: At the low end, the primary differentiator is price. At the high end, it's more about features, such as security, encryption, protection from evildoers.

Q: What kind of things do people do to break into RFID chips -- and how do you prevent that?
A: They put them in cold liquids, bombard them with gamma rays, do what's called differential power analysis. Basically, they've noticed that the chip uses a slightly different amount of power if you get an incorrect digit than if you get a correct digit, and they try to break the code that way. They take the chip apart and try to discover the password on the logic components.

To counter that, we use temperature sensors and radiation sensors on our chips. We have all kinds of voltage protection, so they can't monkey around with that. The logic is randomly distributed. We have coding on the chip that's licensed from the CIA that's really hard to scrape off without permanently damaging the chip. We're the only company that can do high-level, triple DES encryption in a contactless RFID tag.

Quotes from an Article from Business Week March 18 2004

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666 on a barcode

"I Don't understand, I hear every barcode contains 666, therefore making the bible prophecy true that "no man be able to buy or sell unless he recieve the mark of the beast" Revelation ch. 13, however I've looked at many barcodes (I only had to look around where I was sitting, everything has them nowadays), and I can't see 666. Where is it?"

Here it is!

Each number on a barcode is represented by a series of lines (computer code). Above you can see the lines which represent each number. Now, you may have already noticed the two lines representing a 6 appear in every barcode, three times, hence 666! although all the other bars will vary according to the item.

Left, where the 6 apears three times, left, showing the sixes individualy and below two examples of every day barcodes

Try it at home!, everything has a barcode nowadays!

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