VeriChip and remote-controlled societies

Ashkan Kazemian
Press TV
Thursday, Aug 14, 2008

Despite efforts by proponents of implantable identification microchips to popularize them, most Americans are strongly against the use of VeriChip.

In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted clearance for VeriChip, an identification system using implantable Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, consisting of a handheld reader, a microchip approximately the size of a grain of rice (containing a unique 16-digit ID number), which is implanted in the right arm, and a database.

VeriChip Corporation, the producer of the microchips, considers them as a fast and secure way of accessing medical information for thousands of patients brought in emergency departments either unconscious or unable to communicate due to medical conditions.

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The US and certain other countries are currently implanting these microchips in the body of infants. There has also been talk of replacing ID and credit cards with VeriChip.

The use of VeriChip was approved in 2004.
However, there has been widespread opposition to the product as these microchips not only allow authorities to control ones private life, but there is also the danger of hackers getting their hands on personal information.

On the other hand, the VeriChip seems to have been only a means of distracting the public from a far more sophisticated project, conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the central research and development organization for the US Defense Department.

DARPA has been investing in a new implantable chip called Multiple Micro Electrode Array (MMEA); a chip which is surgically implanted directly into a human nerve or into specific area of the brain and connects the brain to a computer.

While the medical advantages of these implantable microchips cannot be denied, a grain of rice in the right arm may prove to be much more decisive.

Perhaps the Wachowski brothers were right about a computer-controlled world of the future.

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9 Responses to “VeriChip and remote-controlled societies”

1. blindboy Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 4:22 am

   Ah, first comment: No f^cking way. And besides, since it connect the ‘brain’ to a computer, that in itself is going to leave out a lot of politicians.

2. david Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 6:10 am

   The first chip itself is the mark of the beast, but the chip 2.0 will be designed to hack the human brain, robbing people of the last vestiges of free will. The first chip is meant to give the governments a control grid by which to implement further manipulation of the human organism. Without free will, however, there is no reason for the creator to allow his subverted experiment to continue. In His mercy, He will end the whole show, as human history for all practical purposes will already be over. The rulers of the earth will be overthrown. The birds will feast on the kings of the earth.

3. nikoli Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 6:13 am

   chip’s in your BRAIN…..

   now come on….. this is not funny….
   what are we… robots…. i’m a free thinking human being….
   i don’t need a chip in my brain or my hand…..

   computers and chips don’t mix….
   have you heard of Hacker’s… have you heard of viruses….
   to trust a computer, that has been programed by man, is not a smart option… these things can break and crash and are not perfect, because we are not perfect…..

4. Heteon Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 6:44 am

   Those i.d. chips cause erectile dysfunction. The radio frequency interferes with the body’s natural process,this leaves the man unable to have an erection. the chester’s are using these microchips for eugenics.

5. Andrew Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 9:36 am

   “…chip which is surgically implanted directly into a human nerve or into specific area of the brain and connects the brain to a computer….”

   Right hand or forehead?

6. Steve Williams Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 11:19 am

   But what about the cancer the chips cause?

7. Beam Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

   Superfunnot. Allabouttruth.org

8. pmartin28 Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

   their actually implanting them just under the skin. between the skin and the muscle in the shoulder part of the arm please go to this link

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUmoVpBbqa0

9. Alienation Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

   While the medical advantages of these implantable microchips cannot be denied, a grain of rice in the right arm may prove to be much more decisive…

   ROFL. Er, I can think of one real life scenario backed up by none other than this same article to disprove the first part of the above sentence: person with implantable microchip admitted to hospital with a HACKED chip resulting in misdiagnosis and eventual death. Perhaps it should have read “medical advantages of these implantable microchips CAN be denied”. On the subject of denial, here’s another expected real life scenario: HMO “denies” coverage for services rendered due to HACKED chip. You think you have problems now with possible denial of coverage? Well then just wait until some 14 year old cracks into the chip embedded in your central nervous system. I can also imagine a brand new industry profiting millions or more for the sole purpose of “protecting” customers’ implantable chips with weekly updates and patches. There’s not a single computer cpu or software package to be built YET that does not contain errata…most of the time (even TODAY) this shit is covered up by software emulation. To think that a bunch of marketing gurus, electrical and mechanical engineers, and eventual software programmers are all going to have a hand in creating that chip, I’d say “thanks but no thanks…I’ll take my chances without it.”