Microchips gone wild
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Tech employees get voluntarily microchipped at 'chip party'
Employees of a Wisconsin technology company have been implanted with technology that will allow them to log onto computers and open doors.
oh hell no!
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@darkmatter oh wait, it's the only way I'll be able to use the coffee machine, you say? So maybe I was a bit hasty in my refusal....
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If it operated the door to our suite at work, I might be willing to use it. Damn thing sometimes fails to read my card through my pants.
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@unperverted-vixen
Or you could use a badge reel like the one below instead of being chipped like cattle:
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@darkmatter said in Microchips gone wild:
Tech employees get voluntarily microchipped at 'chip party'
Employees of a Wisconsin technology company have been implanted with technology that will allow them to log onto computers and open doors.
oh hell no!
That doesn't exactly look voluntary.
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@dreikin
Of course it's entirely voluntarily. Everybody is free to refuse, just like everybody is free to find another job.No, the two are only incidentally related, why do you ask?
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Oh, and one more thing: (thank god this isn't Discourse or I'd be bombarded with anti-thread-monopoly toasters)
If it is attached to your body, it becomes just as useless for access control as any other biometric method: you can only have one body with one chip, but a group of attackers cloning just enough of the identification data can now impersonate you at will. Now you will likely suffer if you need to have a different chip implanted or it needs its internal data reset (you have to be present in person because you can't just send in your badge).
The advantage of a badge is that they're cheap to make and relatively cheap to replace, something which this technology is less likely to offer.
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@jbert But that's, like, sensible.
(And also I would leave it at home or on my desk at least once a week.)
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@unperverted-vixen said in Microchips gone wild:
@jbert But that's, like, sensible.
(And also I would leave it at home or on my desk at least once a week.)
Your hand?
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@dreikin The suggested badge reel, if I used one.
Although given enough time I'm sure I could find a way to leave my hand behind too.
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@unperverted-vixen I just put mine with my wallet & keys. It'd be hard for me to manage to get to work without it.
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@unperverted-vixen said in Microchips gone wild:
@dreikin The suggested badge reel, if I used one.
Although given enough time I'm sure I could find a way to leave my hand behind too.
Have you tried implanting it in your hand? I hear the new biotechnological synthesis is all the rage these days.
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@jbert In 10 years all those chips will be useless anyway because they will have changed the protocol.
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@anonymous234 as long as that?
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@jbert said in Microchips gone wild:
If it is attached to your body, it becomes just as useless for access control as any other biometric method
Yeah, as much as I like the idea of waving my hand at the door and having it open, there really are almost no advantages to chipping yourself that the same chip embedded in a badge can't offer. You can't lose it (save for very bizarre drinking incidents) and, uh, that's about it.
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@darkmatter said in Microchips gone wild:
@unperverted-vixen I just put mine with my wallet & keys. It'd be hard for me to manage to get to work without it.
I tried that for two weeks. After the third time I left it at home, it went back into my laptop bag.
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@darkmatter I have mine inside my wallet and I feel uneasy when I don't have it in my back pocket.
Technically we're supposed to wear the badge somewhere visible, but most people don't and noone's ever said anything.
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@jbert said in Microchips gone wild:
Or you could use a badge reel like the one below
Somehow those always seem to snag in the chair I sit in. I changed to putting it around my neck (with my train pass)
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@jbert said in Microchips gone wild:
Oh, and one more thing: (thank god this isn't Discourse or I'd be bombarded with anti-thread-monopoly toasters)
If it is attached to your body, it becomes just as useless for access control as any other biometric method: you can only have one body with one chip, but a group of attackers cloning just enough of the identification data can now impersonate you at will. Now you will likely suffer if you need to have a different chip implanted or it needs its internal data reset (you have to be present in person because you can't just send in your badge).
The advantage of a badge is that they're cheap to make and relatively cheap to replace, something which this technology is less likely to offer.
You can at least attach a new chip to your body. It's harder to get new eyes or new fingerprints.
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Came in to see some bare naked silicon. Was disappointed.
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@blek that's silicone.
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