Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday May 3, 2006 @03:45PM from the chips-in-my-head dept.

kramdam asks: "Even with all the talk about privacy and security, there seems to be a growing community of people who are implanting themselves with RFID chips. Being a developer myself, I am intrigued about building applications and solutions that will open my doors, unlock my car, log me on to my computer and control home automation. I'm seriously considering jumping into this head first, being on the bleeding edge, and going with an implant. I have looked at resources like Mikey Sklar's site, and Amal Graafstra's site, since they are two pioneers on this subject. For research, I have started TaggedLife to document my own journey. I was wondering what the Slashdot community think about this. What do you think are the social, security, privacy, and health risks associated with this? What are the pluses? Would you do it?"

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Bleeding edge! by Skippy_kangaroo · 2006-05-03 16:38 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm seriously considering jumping into this head first, being on the bleeding edge, and going with an implant.

Rev.13:16:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.

Oh boy, where do I start?

"Head first" - implant in the forehead?! "Bleeding edge" - more like bleeding forehead. I wonder if I could get the sentence to convert to 666 using enough numerological gymnastics...