Surveillance company CityWatcher.com is requiring that employees that access it’s data center do so with RFID security chips that are implanted in their biceps. Having the implants is not a condition of employment but is required for access to the data center.
Ironically a security expert recently discovered that the chips, provided by the company VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant’s aunthentification. According to this article the folks at CityWatcher.com weren’t aware of the security flaw.
All I can say is that you’d have to pay me a bunch of money to implant anything in my already-decrepit body and it darn well better be upgradeable without taking it out and putting it back in. It also better be a lot more reliable than my PC or my cell phone because if it behaved like those sorry devices it would probably start repeatedly ordering my implanted arm to pick my nose or something slightly worse.
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