Mexico Atty. General gets microchipped (fwd)
Forwarded for amusement -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden - - - "There aught to be limits to freedom!" George Bush - - - Which one scares you more? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/07/13/mexico.chip.reut/index.html Mexico attorney general gets microchip implant Tuesday, July 13, 2004 Posted: 5:34 PM EDT (2134 GMT) MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) -- Mexico's attorney general said on Monday he had had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted. Attorney General Rafael Macedo said a number of his staff had also been fitted with chips which will give them exclusive and secure access to a national, computerized database for crime investigators that went live on Monday. "It's an area of high security, it's necessary that we have access to this, through a chip, which what's more is unremovable," Macedo told reporters. "The system is here and I already have it. It's solely for access, for safety and so that I can be located at any moment wherever I am," he said, admitting the chip hurt "a little." The chips would enable the wearer to be found anywhere inside Mexico, in the event of an assault or kidnapping, said Macedo. And kidnapping is a huge problem here. From 1992 to 2002, Mexico saw some 15,000 kidnappings, second only to war-torn Colombia, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. Crime-fighting is a dangerous business in Mexico, where police are notoriously corrupt and where political figures and investigative journalists sometimes risk assassination. Mexico has seen a surge in violent crime recently, with an onslaught of headlines about murders and kidnappings prompting Fox to pledge in a national broadcast to crack down on crime. In June a quarter of a million people protested the government's failure to combat crime.
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Forwarded for amusement http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/07/13/mexico.chip.reut/index.html Mexico attorney general gets microchip implant
Politicians getting RFIDs. Will it spur a new generation of smart roadside bombs, landmines, and perhaps homing missiles? 1. Get the politico's ID. 2. Release a tiny unmanned drone with a small shaped charge. 3. Let it fly over the city or a highway, patroling patiently, drinking the nectar of the sunshine with the panels of its wings, occassionally pinging the ground below. 4. Wait until it hears the target response, then aims to the target using the RFID's response signal the way tracking radars do, falling down for a suicide kill, not dissimilar to a beast of prey. ....then a counter-technology appears and the cycle will repeat again.
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Forwarded for amusement
"...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them."
Osama Bin Laden
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"There aught to be limits to freedom!"
George Bush
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Which one scares you more?
The about sounds like a great .signature file. :)
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Mexico attorney general gets microchip implant
"It's an area of high security, it's necessary that we have access to this, through a chip, which what's more is unremovable," Macedo told reporters.
Huh? any implantable is removeable... What, kidnappers, in Mexico don't have access to alumium foil, faraday cages, frequency counters and {hatchets,knives,scalpels,chain saws}, etc?
The chips would enable the wearer to be found anywhere inside Mexico, in the event of an assault or kidnapping, said Macedo.
Which means it's transmitting, and to do so, it's not an RFID, it's a bug with a battery. If if it doesn't transmit at all times, there's a scar somewhere which points where it is. This ploy would have only worked if the kidnappers didn't know about it in advance. Now they do. It will stop the lame ones. The hardass criminals know how to deal with it. IMHO, this is a publicity op - not much else, designed to discourage potential kidnappers, and enourage the public to get chipped. "What's the frequency Kenneth?" comes to mind. ROTFL!
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