-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FOR IP: Re: [IP] The Financial Times: US group implants electronic tags in workers] Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:01:58 -0500 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu To: dave@farber.net References: <43EFC85D.2060509@farber.net> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:44:29 EST, Bob Rosenberg said:

"So far around 70 people in the US have had the implants, the company said."

I don't believe I need to mention a litany of privacy concerns at the moment.

And to make things worse, somebody has already discovered how to skim and clone the VeriChip. http://cq.cx/verichip.pl The problem is, of course, that you can leave your ID badge at home when you go to the supermarket, or the movies - but leaving your arm at home isn't very workable. This makes a "skim, clone, and utilize" attack a lot *easier*. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD79NPh0VyAToQeqERAkhUAJ9Yr39oNbXDx+rsbQ5v2+CP3h91VgCgps/0 i0ol8rVZnYdIe7kjyottfmY= =8uL4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------- 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]