-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Yep, it's the apocalypse: RFIDs are the "mark of the beast" Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:16:53 -0500 From: Kevin G. Barkes <kgbarkes@gmail.com> Reply-To: kgbarkes@gmail.com To: dave@farber.net And for years I thought it was my Social Security card... Wired News RFID: Sign of the (End) Times? By Mark Baard | Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Mar, 02, 2006 EST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Katherine Albrecht is on a mission from God. The influential consumer advocate has written a new book warning her fellow Christians that radio frequency identification may evolve to become the "mark of the beast" -- meaning the technology is a sign that the end-times are drawing near. "My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm," said Albrecht, in a conversation over tea at a high-end grocery store. Albrecht has been a leading opponent of RFID, which is fast becoming a part of passports and payment cards, and is widely expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. RFID chips contain unique identification codes, and can be read at varying distances with special reader devices. Albrecht hopes her new book, The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance, will be embraced by the millions of Americans (59 percent of them, according to a 2002 Time/CNN poll) who share her belief that the Book of Revelation in the Bible forecasts events that are yet to come. The Spychips Threat is in fact a Christianized version of its secular predecessor, Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID, which came out last fall. Both books are published by the Christian publishing powerhouse Thomas Nelson. Both lay out the same totalitarian scenarios, based on documented plans by Philips, Procter and Gamble, Wal-Mart and other companies, along with the federal government, to track consumer goods and people individually. (Including, one assumes, the copy of "The Spychips Threat" one picks up at WalMart.) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70308-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Regards, KGB ----- Kevin G. Barkes Email: kgb@kgb.com | Web: www.kgb.com KGB Report: http://www.kgb.com Commentwear by KGB: http://www.commentwear.com National Temperature Index: http://nationaltemperatureindex.com DCL Dialogue on line: http://www.kgb.com/dcl.html Random Quotations Generator: http://www.goodquotations.com Over 12,000 searchable quotations. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]