Wisconsin Company Offers Employees Microchip Implants

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A total of about 50 employees at a Wisconsin company have agreed to let their employer implant a microchip into their hands. Three Square Market which specializes in micro-market solutions (vending machines) will be one of the first in the US to offer such an option to employees. About the size and shape of a grain of rice, the radio-frequency identification chips (RFID) could be used for buying snacks and logging in to company computers.

Made by Sweden's BioHax International, the implants will be used as long-term testing for the viability of broader commercial applications.

The company is holding an Aug. 1 "chip party" where employees will have the device inserted between their forefinger and thumb using a syringe-like instrument.

The RFID chips use electromagnetic fields to communicate and can be read at a distance of no more than 6 inches (15 cm).
 
What happens when they need an MRI? (genuinely curious I didn't see any mention of it in the article)

I know those idiots people that implanted magnets in their fingers are sorry when they need one, but these seem just a tad smaller.
 
Not good. The intelligence community grows scarier and scarier as we grow, speaking of which it cost $25 to chip my dog last summer.

http://wccftech.com/sweden-exposes-military-secrets/

https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/russia-blamed-for-swedish-air-traffic-hack-1254.html

This article was also news quite some time ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2934241/Swedish-company-implants-microchips-staff.html

The Scandinavian government is stuck in a scandal that it tried to hush up before it blew out of proportion. The mishandling of this outsourcing deal may have resulted in the leak of the private data of every car owner in the country, including police and military transport. The 2015 leak exposed personal information, such as names, photos and home addresses of millions of Swedish vehicle owners, including fighter pilots of the Swedish air force, police suspects, those under the witness protection program, and the members of the military’s most secretive units.

Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) that has seen the police investigation documents, reports that the IBM employees in the Czech Republic were given full access to all data and logs, while firewalls and communications were maintained by a company in Serbia.
 
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I hope their hands start to itch hell my Cellphone does that to me after a minute or so. EMF is real.....
 
I would hope these are not just standard RFID tags like those used in pet tagging (i.e. that do little more than yell thie ID number when powered by an external field), but proper encrypted tags using D-H key exchange to authenticate, similar to NFC cards used in public transport and access control systems.
Hope, but not expect. Almost every one of these 'subdermal tag' projects ends up being someone using a batch of standard pet tags with (or without, for biohackers) extra certification for sterility before implantation. I am not aware of any manufacturers encapsulating more advanced tags for subdermal use.

Comixbooks said:
I hope their hands start to itch hell my Cellphone does that to me after a minute or so. EMF is real.....
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RF has no effect on flesh other than extremely mild (less than exposure to daylight) surface heating. If your mobile phone is causing your hand to itch, clean your damn phone.
 
EdZ said:
I would hope these are not just standard RFID tags like those used in pet tagging (i.e. that do little more than yell thie ID number when powered by an external field), but proper encrypted tags using D-H key exchange to authenticate, similar to NFC cards used in public transport and access control systems.
Hope, but not expect. Almost every one of these 'subdermal tag' projects ends up being someone using a batch of standard pet tags with (or without, for biohackers) extra certification for sterility before implantation. I am not aware of any manufacturers encapsulating more advanced tags for subdermal use.


RF has no effect on flesh other than extremely mild (less than exposure to daylight) surface heating. If your mobile phone is causing your hand to itch, clean your damn phone.
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Yeah just wash off Emf that will work just Google smart meter.
 
What happens when you leave the company? Who pays for the surgery to remove the device? What if you get a cyst/weird tissue/cancer from this device? Hell no.
Take the chip and implant it where the sun doesn't shine - just not my behind.
 
I am SURE the company has informed the participants of all the functions the chip performs.

Heck they were probably nice enough to put the info in one of those easy to read T.O.S. documents.

Seal of approval!

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so if you want to hack their pcs just rip out their implant? Island of dr. Monroe 2... revenge of the vending machines
 
Employers be like...

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Master_shake_ said:
i bet this program is "voluntary".
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It is. Numerous people at my work were talking about it. The CEO said about half of the employees were willing. Their chips are limited to logging on to their PC's, accessing the building, and buying food in the break room. In fact, Three Square Market specializes in high tech vending machines. So basically, they are testing their own product.

Many new technologies have begun with good intentions, but some of them have great potential to be abused and used in controversial, unethical ways.
 
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NeghVar said:
It is. Numerous people at my work were talking about it. The CEO said about half of the employees were willing. Their chips are limited to logging on to their PC's, accessing the building, and buying food in the break room. In fact, Three Square Market specializes in high tech vending machines. So basically, they are testing their own product.

Many new technologies have begun with good intentions, but some of them have great potential to be abused and used in controversial, unethical ways.
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I don't buy the limitations of the device. I think they are already heading towards the abuse of this tech.

Step 1 was seeing how many willing dopes they got to sign up, which evidently, is a lot of idiots. Step 2 will be 'updating' the device so that it will begin to do more things. It's that simple.
 
Sonicks said:
I don't buy the limitations of the device. I think they are already heading towards the abuse of this tech.

Step 1 was seeing how many willing dopes they got to sign up, which evidently, is a lot of idiots. Step 2 will be 'updating' the device so that it will begin to do more things. It's that simple.
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Supposedly, this device is limited to emitting a unique ID. Only strong enough to be detected a few inches away. How do you propose the device could be upgraded or updated hardware-wise without removing the old and inserting a new?
 
Doesn't seem much different than the prox card I carry for door access at work now. It is in my wallet 24/7 and the only time my wallet isn't with me is when I'm sitting at home.
 
I don't get the point. What benefit does this have than a normal ID with embedded rfid in it? You can't lose it?
Is it really that hard to call someone when you lose your id?
 
so... the new way to hack into their building and systems will be to walk up to an employee after hours, like in a bar or such, and shake their hand while wearing a glove that can emit the required RF and then read the response.

then with said glove, walk up to the building and have it send the ID tag

all nice and clean


and that took me all of about 2 minutes to think of, before i have even had my morning coffee
 
THis is why we need to keep pumping labor into the marketplace and fund and promote degrees into areas with no jobs, so employees feel like they have no choice but to take whatever crap is shoveled at them.
 
I don't think they'd get too much off of me.

"Based on location data and movement speed, we can determine he was fapping at his desk."

But, no, this is a start, and a bad one. I guess I'm headed for homeless once this becomes required. It starts with logon's and doors opening, it ends with them having all of your biological, financial, and personal information at all times.
 
ChoGGi said:
What happens when they need an MRI? (genuinely curious I didn't see any mention of it in the article)
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Mythbusters says no: they put one in Kari's arm and put her in an MRI to no effect.
 
"The RFID chips use electromagnetic fields to communicate and can be read at a distance of no more than 6 inches (15 cm)."

"Supposedly, this device is limited to emitting a unique ID. Only strong enough to be detected a few inches away."

That's only true if you use a regular reader. To read the chip from a longer distance, you just create a stronger field with your reader. Here in DFW (and, of course, in lots of other places), they use RFID tags your windshield on toll roads to bill you. The readers are all 16 feet or whatever off the ground, which means they can read the tag from 10-12 feet away.
 
NeghVar said:
Supposedly, this device is limited to emitting a unique ID. Only strong enough to be detected a few inches away. How do you propose the device could be upgraded or updated hardware-wise without removing the old and inserting a new?
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You said it yourself, "supposedly".

It can just as easily be detected from much further away already for all we know an artificial 'few inches' limit for now.

I wouldn't in a million years let a company put something like that in me. They are always for their interests, not yours, no matter what they say.
 
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katanaD said:
so... the new way to hack into their building and systems will be to walk up to an employee after hours, like in a bar or such, and shake their hand while wearing a glove that can emit the required RF and then read the response.

then with said glove, walk up to the building and have it send the ID tag

all nice and clean

and that took me all of about 2 minutes to think of, before i have even had my morning coffee
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Encryption. Took me like 4 seconds to think of.
 
Parja said:
Encryption. Took me like 4 seconds to think of.
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Not that easy with this type of RFID. All it is is a transmitter that, when put in an electromagnetic field, spits out a 32-bit (IIRC) number. Any kind of processing would probably require a much more powerful field (or a battery), or cause the chip to be quite a bit larger to fit a processor.
 
steakman1971 said:
What happens when you leave the company? Who pays for the surgery to remove the device? What if you get a cyst/weird tissue/cancer from this device? Hell no.
Take the chip and implant it where the sun doesn't shine - just not my behind.
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Apparently it is not that far from the surface, so you can just "pinch" it out like a sliver.
 
What's wrong with swiping a card? Why does it need to be inside the victim? I'm reminded of Mccoy in the hospital scene, "What is this? The dark ages?"

If everyone insists on pocketless clothes, refuses to wear a lanyard, or insists on working naked and biometric devices are too invasive -- no other option than to chip.
 
I'm waiting to see what group volunteers for the first round of head implants, you know; cell phone + purchase card + intercom + tracker all-in-one module?
 
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