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  • Artigo

Y'know, when I got hired on by Microsoft, I made a joke about getting their chip implanted. I can't be the only one who's ever made that joke. They didn't implant one -- or, if they did implant one, they didn't tell me about it (and that admission should make the conspiracy theorists happy).

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I meant the chip implanting thing as a joke. But maybe I'm the only one. The Seattle Times had a story on Wednesday about a guy who actually had RFID chips implanted in his hands. Now, he can open his apartment door and car door, plus sign on to his computer, without having to worry about keys or typing his username and password.

So apparently you don't need to sneak about when you're doing the implants, people are going to be chipped for you. Me, and you can call me a Luddite if you must, but I think I'm just going to continue my cycle of losing and finding my keys.

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  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2006
    The creepiest thing about this is that he wrote the software after putting the chip in his hand.  Really, it can't have been that impossible to do a test run with a pre-implant chip.
  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2006
    You'd still get locked out if the power went out.  Okay, so the power doesn't go out that often, but it's not quite rare enough that I'd feel entirely comfortable key-less.