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Apparently you are grossly unfamiliar with the characteristics and capabilities of SQUID's. To help you catch up...
Actually, I am quite familiar with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices and the one existing commercial application of the technology, a magnetometer probe containing a liquid nitrogen cooled SQUID chip at its tip.
There are several commercial probes available, not a single source as you claim. The Air Force has used them in experimental fighter programs for several years allowing hands-off flying (in a simulator) with quite good results. Quite a few neurophysiologists use them along with NMR to map the neuronal activity of the human brain on a neuron by neuron basis. The folks who make the various flavors of super-conducting wire use them to test for imperfections in the product. I sugest that your familiarity with the SQUID technology might be a little dated. Take the time to contact Conductus.
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I will still laugh at suggestions that Mr. Squid can remotely read the EEPROM in my smart card, however.
I didn't make that assertion. I clearly offered it as a source of education and entertainment. I even went so far as to specificaly predicate my recital with this caveat. While Mr. SQUID might be able to do it, the other commercial probes out there would have no problem from reading your smart card on a transistor by transistor state if that is what were required.