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Do you mean something like that just replacing the department of homeland security with Billy's building in Redmond?

• The ID SNIPER rifle designed by EMPIRE NORTH

  What is the ID SNIPER rifle?

  It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.

Ooo, maybe now they can make that tracking sniper rifle that some one came up with as a scam.
Though I'd guess you'd notice it if you got hit with a paint ball, like this thing is.

What is the ID SNIPERTM rifle?

It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.

Now this is scary.

For those of you still wondering whether this thing is for real...well its not. Check the guy's behind (Jakob S. Boeskov) this website. He has this weird thing with "fictionism". Quote: Basically, the idea was to come up with the most terrible weapon imaginable, and to test it in a real environment. We had three days to finish up the weapon. Our fake company, Empire North, already had a logo and a slogan ("The Logical Solution" aping the Nazi classic "The Final Solution") but we had no weapon yet. Genius designer Von B and I worked overtime, and in two days we had the ID Sniper ready. The day before I was leaving, BLACK BOX editor Mads Brügger called designer Von B and asked him to change the design, because "it was too far out and he couldn't be responsible for what happened, if I was found out." Changing was not possible at this late stage. I guess he knew that. Maybe he was just, more or less elegantly, trying to shake off his share of the burden. I can understand it, because we were all becoming afraid. Afraid of what would happen if I was found out, and afraid of what might happen if the weapon was taken seriously. Would it be copied? Would we be responsible for the production of one of the most inhumane weapons in the history of man? We justified our project by telling ourselves that right now, a few people were walking around with so-called VeriChips implanted in their bodies, chips manufactured by the company Applied Digital Solutions. We kept reminding ourselves that right, now prisoners in Sweden are doing time at home wearing GPS chip wristbands. It would merely be a question of time before the technology would be used pre-emptively on suspicious persons, and as we repeatedly told ourselves, all new technology has been used for military purposes, and this technology would too, we concluded. Why not bring it out prematurely, so at least we could have a small part in getting a thorough discussion about this kind of technology? With this question, we basically came up with a brand new art concept. Let's for now just call it sci-fi conceptual art, defined like this: take the essence of an imagined future, turn it into a concept and present this concept in present day reality. Report the reactions. I just can't believe some of you really thought this was for real.

to redouble your seriousness - take a look at the GPS unit that gets shot into the body

The first thing I thought of was the Matrix bug

-shpoffo

Take a look at the link at the bottom of the JUJU instructions pointing to whitehouse.org/homeland.

Looks like hours of fun.

Jakob Boeskov, the purported "CEO" of "Empire North", is a satirist. Here is a link to his personal homepage, along with an explanation of the FAKE GPS Sniper Rifle (emphasis is mine):

http://www.backfire.dk/JB/indexreal.html

"Giant balloon sculptures, voodoo-cursed technology and blueprints for hi-tech weapons smuggled into Chinas first international weapons fair - in the world of Jakob S. Boeskov the amazing meets the political in a unique mix.

Coming from a background in comics, Copenhagen based artist Jakob S. Boeskov seems destined to work with satire and pastiche. Using a palette of different media such as web, paintings, writings, 3D drawings and animations, as well as collaborations with musicians, writers, voodoo priests (!) and industrial designers he "hacks and bends" media, reality and technology to give a startling and shocking view of life in the 21st century.

His recent works has been created within the framework of his self-styled "sci-fi art" (or "fictionist") concept where he takes "an imaginary product from the future" and tests it out today, in a real environment. He did this most notably in his MY DOOMSDAY WEAPON project where he created "the most horrible weapon in the world" (- a piece of "pre-crime technology" designed to mark demonstrators with GPS (Global Positioning System) chips "before the crime is committed"). Jakob S. Boeskov brought drawings of this weapon to China Police 2002, Chinas first international weapons fair, where the international weapons dealer elite and greeted this nightmarish weapon with much enthusiasm."

Happy April Fools Day, 11 days late! :)

I wish I'd seen THIS page on their site before I submitted my first post, now I'm starting to think that HUMOR is their goal

http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/newsite/product s_en002_instructions.htm

Notice how everybody in the instructions is white except for the one "suspicious" guy. These guys must have had a brain storm after watching Brazil.

I can't believe I fell for it. The site is such an obvious fake. These guys are laughing their collective butts off at our readiness to don the tinfoil hat and march into battle.

Mod me down... after replying to such a fake, I don't deserve Karma.

Now, what do we do about Timothy, the editor, and gbjbaanb, the submitter?

This can't be real.

The image of the rifle in question looks like CGI from a video game -- if it was real, why not just use a photo rather than a photo-realistic synthetic graphic?

And their other product, with the silly cartoons, is even more implausible. But let's not get distracted by the obvious fake -- the gun is more interesting anyway.

As a hypothetical exercise, could this kind of coverty GPS planting work? Let's say that the GPS beacon / transmitter is small enough to be mistaken for an insect's sting, so no bigger than a grain of sand. What then?

1. Do GPS receivers that small currently exist? Are they reliable? What power supply do they need, and how long could an implanted one continue to operate?
2. Would it be possible to remotely track these devices from, say, NSA headquarters in Fort Mead, Maryland? The graphics suggest that they can monitor a tag's movement on a 1000 mile journey from Maine to North Carolina -- was this data gathered from close to the target (in which case why bother with the beacon since you can presumably track them with more conventional means), or was the data gathered remotely (in which case how powerful can that little transmitter be?

I don't believe for a minute that this is real, but I had no problem believing that various Three Letter Agencies would love to treat this as a prototype for devices they would like to build. How close are we to being able to approximate this with current technology?

This can't be real.

The image of the rifle in question looks like CGI from a video game -- if it was real, why not just use a photo rather than a photo-realistic synthetic graphic?

And their other product, with the silly cartoons, is even more implausible. But let's not get distracted by the obvious fake -- the gun is more interesting anyway.

As a hypothetical exercise, could this kind of coverty GPS planting work? Let's say that the GPS beacon / transmitter is small enough to be mistaken for an insect's sting, so no bigger than a grain of sand. What then?

1. Do GPS receivers that small currently exist? Are they reliable? What power supply do they need, and how long could an implanted one continue to operate?
2. Would it be possible to remotely track these devices from, say, NSA headquarters in Fort Mead, Maryland? The graphics suggest that they can monitor a tag's movement on a 1000 mile journey from Maine to North Carolina -- was this data gathered from close to the target (in which case why bother with the beacon since you can presumably track them with more conventional means), or was the data gathered remotely (in which case how powerful can that little transmitter be?

I don't believe for a minute that this is real, but I had no problem believing that various Three Letter Agencies would love to treat this as a prototype for devices they would like to build. How close are we to being able to approximate this with current technology?

This can't be real.

The image of the rifle in question looks like CGI from a video game -- if it was real, why not just use a photo rather than a photo-realistic synthetic graphic?

And their other product, with the silly cartoons, is even more implausible. But let's not get distracted by the obvious fake -- the gun is more interesting anyway.

As a hypothetical exercise, could this kind of coverty GPS planting work? Let's say that the GPS beacon / transmitter is small enough to be mistaken for an insect's sting, so no bigger than a grain of sand. What then?

1. Do GPS receivers that small currently exist? Are they reliable? What power supply do they need, and how long could an implanted one continue to operate?
2. Would it be possible to remotely track these devices from, say, NSA headquarters in Fort Mead, Maryland? The graphics suggest that they can monitor a tag's movement on a 1000 mile journey from Maine to North Carolina -- was this data gathered from close to the target (in which case why bother with the beacon since you can presumably track them with more conventional means), or was the data gathered remotely (in which case how powerful can that little transmitter be?

I don't believe for a minute that this is real, but I had no problem believing that various Three Letter Agencies would love to treat this as a prototype for devices they would like to build. How close are we to being able to approximate this with current technology?

This can't be real.

The image of the rifle in question looks like CGI from a video game -- if it was real, why not just use a photo rather than a photo-realistic synthetic graphic?

And their other product, with the silly cartoons, is even more implausible. But let's not get distracted by the obvious fake -- the gun is more interesting anyway.

As a hypothetical exercise, could this kind of coverty GPS planting work? Let's say that the GPS beacon / transmitter is small enough to be mistaken for an insect's sting, so no bigger than a grain of sand. What then?

1. Do GPS receivers that small currently exist? Are they reliable? What power supply do they need, and how long could an implanted one continue to operate?
2. Would it be possible to remotely track these devices from, say, NSA headquarters in Fort Mead, Maryland? The graphics suggest that they can monitor a tag's movement on a 1000 mile journey from Maine to North Carolina -- was this data gathered from close to the target (in which case why bother with the beacon since you can presumably track them with more conventional means), or was the data gathered remotely (in which case how powerful can that little transmitter be?

I don't believe for a minute that this is real, but I had no problem believing that various Three Letter Agencies would love to treat this as a prototype for devices they would like to build. How close are we to being able to approximate this with current technology?

This can't be real.

The image of the rifle in question looks like CGI from a video game -- if it was real, why not just use a photo rather than a photo-realistic synthetic graphic?

And their other product, with the silly cartoons, is even more implausible. But let's not get distracted by the obvious fake -- the gun is more interesting anyway.

As a hypothetical exercise, could this kind of coverty GPS planting work? Let's say that the GPS beacon / transmitter is small enough to be mistaken for an insect's sting, so no bigger than a grain of sand. What then?

1. Do GPS receivers that small currently exist? Are they reliable? What power supply do they need, and how long could an implanted one continue to operate?
2. Would it be possible to remotely track these devices from, say, NSA headquarters in Fort Mead, Maryland? The graphics suggest that they can monitor a tag's movement on a 1000 mile journey from Maine to North Carolina -- was this data gathered from close to the target (in which case why bother with the beacon since you can presumably track them with more conventional means), or was the data gathered remotely (in which case how powerful can that little transmitter be?

I don't believe for a minute that this is real, but I had no problem believing that various Three Letter Agencies would love to treat this as a prototype for devices they would like to build. How close are we to being able to approximate this with current technology?

This can't be real.

The image of the rifle in question looks like CGI from a video game -- if it was real, why not just use a photo rather than a photo-realistic synthetic graphic?

And their other product, with the silly cartoons, is even more implausible. But let's not get distracted by the obvious fake -- the gun is more interesting anyway.

As a hypothetical exercise, could this kind of coverty GPS planting work? Let's say that the GPS beacon / transmitter is small enough to be mistaken for an insect's sting, so no bigger than a grain of sand. What then?

1. Do GPS receivers that small currently exist? Are they reliable? What power supply do they need, and how long could an implanted one continue to operate?
2. Would it be possible to remotely track these devices from, say, NSA headquarters in Fort Mead, Maryland? The graphics suggest that they can monitor a tag's movement on a 1000 mile journey from Maine to North Carolina -- was this data gathered from close to the target (in which case why bother with the beacon since you can presumably track them with more conventional means), or was the data gathered remotely (in which case how powerful can that little transmitter be?

I don't believe for a minute that this is real, but I had no problem believing that various Three Letter Agencies would love to treat this as a prototype for devices they would like to build. How close are we to being able to approximate this with current technology?

it's for real from a Danish company that has already shown it off at a Chinese Police exhibition.

This sentence leads to some interesting concepts:

* If the Chinese authorities had this cyber-weapon at their disposal, would lives have been saved at Tiananmen Square?

* If the demonstrators had been tagged instead of shot outright, would it have been any better for them in the long run?

* Isn't the whole idea incredibly creepy?

Actually, I have my doubts that a map, like the one tracking the terrorist padre in the demo, is currently possible. Remember the distance-squared law, frequently mentioned in other RFID articles?

This sounds more like a James Bond tracking device than anything possible in the Real World.

Something similar that *would* be useful against *real* criminals would be a TollTag gun -- fire a vehicle tracker into the body panel of a fleeing vehicle, and track it as it travels the freeway system in a wired-up town like Houston.

Here. All it says is "this is not the way..."

Seconded
I call parody (product number 2 from the same site.)