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INFORMATION REGARING THE WRIST CHIP
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Trace
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 		INFORMATION REGARING THE WRIST CHIP
i have some info you may want to see
So with pikaju's post about his english calss and an article, i did some online research, anf found this

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002feb/gee20020225010424.htm
and thishttp://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Oct/gee20021024016949.htm this page is also interesting and where i got the pics from http://www.av1611.org/666/biochip.html

on the first news article, from 2002, this caught my eye
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The next step for the VeriChip is larger storage ("up to a megabyte of programmable data") and GPS tracking. It's the tracking part and the potential for the VeriChip to become required equipment that has privacy and civil rights activists worried,


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A biochip can store and update your financial, medical, demographic data, basically everything about you.

The common scenario is: an implanted biochip can be scanned to pay for groceries, obtain medical procedures, conduct financial transactions.

FALSE. Currently, the in use, implanted biochips only store ONE 10 to 15 digit. Although the microchip can hold more data, and some microchips can be "updated", the technology to perform the above mentioned functions via today's small biochip does not exist. At best, the biochip could be scanned for your PIN (Person Identification Number) and a global centralized computer system could perform the functions against your number. But the obvious question is – in that case, for only identification purposes, why not use biometric identification technology such as "eye-scans", fingerprints, hand scans or voice ID's? They are more reliable and completely tamperproof.

One major concern with a implanted biochip is theft.

According to the "authorities" a chip implant would contain your financial world, medical history, health care — it would contain your "electronic life". If cash no longer existed and if the world's economy was totally chip oriented; — there would be a huge "black-market" for chips! Since there is no cash and no other bartering system, criminals would cut off hands and heads, stealing "rich-folks" chips. How would like to "borrow" Bill Gates chip for a few days?

Terry Waite, the Anglican Church envoy who spent five years as a hostage in Beirut, sounded a similar alarm concerning biochip implants:
"It is very dangerous because once kidnappers get to know about these things, they will skin you alive to find them," (New York Times, June 20, 1999)


the website for verichip is real, not IG creation,, or so i think
http://www.verichipcorp.com/

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 		no, this is completely real. I read the story when it came out. Since the technology is available, it makes sense that it would be perfected and used in the future. It just makes the story more real.

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