> "These chips will allow citizens to withdraw money from the bank, to purchase groceries and make other financial transactions without using cash," he explains. "Imagine the convenience and efficiency of that.
Amazingly, I can already do that. It's called a "credit card." Somebody coems at me with a knife or a big-ass syringe to implant a chip is gonna have an agnostic's boot up his ass.
Also, when scanned, your ID chip will provide 100 percent proof of who you are -- making identity theft a thing of the past.
Horsepuckey. Two ways to defeat that:
1: Simply chop the target's hand off.
2: More cost effectively, simply rig up a sensitive and directional radio reciever, point it at a chip scanner, and read the data broadcast by the chip. Then write that onto a blank chip. Simple enough. If they use somethign other than radio... say, magnetic fields liek a credit card, it'll still be readable: simply swipe a regular scanner, amke it hand-held, put it in your pocket and ride the subway. At the end of the day, you'll have dozens of random signitures.
They are used to buy and sell since they are a legitimate medium of exchange.
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