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Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin (npr.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: In Sweden, a country rich with technological advancement, thousands have had microchips inserted into their hands. The chips are designed to speed up users' daily routines and make their lives more convenient -- accessing their homes, offices and gyms is as easy as swiping their hands against digital readers. They also can be used to store emergency contact details, social media profiles or e-tickets for events and rail journeys within Sweden. Proponents of the tiny chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of personal health data that might be stored on the devices.
Around the size of a grain of rice, the chips typically are inserted into the skin just above each user's thumb, using a syringe similar to that used for giving vaccinations. The procedure costs about $180. So many Swedes are lining up to get the microchips that the country's main chipping company says it can't keep up with the number of requests. More than 4,000 Swedes have adopted the technology, with one company, Biohax International, dominating the market. The chipping firm was started five years ago by Jowan Osterlund, a former professional body piercer. After spending the past two years working full time on the project, he is currently developing training materials so he can hire Swedish doctors and nurses to help take on some of his heavy workload.
Around the size of a grain of rice, the chips typically are inserted into the skin just above each user's thumb, using a syringe similar to that used for giving vaccinations. The procedure costs about $180. So many Swedes are lining up to get the microchips that the country's main chipping company says it can't keep up with the number of requests. More than 4,000 Swedes have adopted the technology, with one company, Biohax International, dominating the market. The chipping firm was started five years ago by Jowan Osterlund, a former professional body piercer. After spending the past two years working full time on the project, he is currently developing training materials so he can hire Swedish doctors and nurses to help take on some of his heavy workload.
Where's my axe?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Swedes are cucks and soyboys.
Poor choice of words? As in "I could not imagine how a thief would steal my identity" ? Thumb, meet knife.... I will now invest in a prosthetic thumb medical company, as I foresee many Swedes without opposing thumbs very soon.
I've read the good book and know where this is heading.
Why not wear a chipped ring instead? That way you can change your ID if it gets compromised and no knives are involved.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
All Europeans love to insert cocks into their asses.
Not mentioning sores brought on by the emissions from these embedded device is worth noting. Another case of 'whoops'?
Revelation 13:16-17
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:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
retardware under the skin
Get your thumb chopped off and taken to compromise your 2FA. Yeah - pass.
What stops people simply reading your id and using it?
Soon I will be able to send my robot to the movies and it can have sex with my wife's robot.
love is just extroverted narcissism
It claims that thousands of "Swedes" are doing this. In reality, those who agree to this are brainwashed zombie goyim -- not Swedes. The Swedes are long died out.
Automatic war if you tried to force this.
The article states more than 4000 (!) in 5 years.
That's... not a lot of people.
Sweden currently has a population of 10 million people, and a 1% growth rate. It will only take 25 times as many users as there currently are to equal one year's worth of population growth.
At 30, do they go Carousel?
Well, pretty soon even precocious 10 years olds who could assemble protocol droids in their sparet ime wont be able to build a scanner to find these implants.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Bad enough we have so much crap, face ID, chip cards and all this other crap. It's just more conditioning, so in the years/decades to follow people become even more accepting to this crap. "it's for your safety, for your convenience" Load of BS. It more for tracking, data mining and all other crap. Eventually they will load these with a death dart, and at some point when you are no longer good to "the state" they can just cut you down.
Sweden is a guinea pig for each and every of such social engineering experiments. Socialism, feminism, migrant fuelled multiculturalism you name it. Now they happily brand themselves with rfid cattle tags.
Needless to say every sensible Swede had emigrated to US long time ago.
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Biohacks indeed. Oops! that's "hax" not "hacks". My bad.
In being the "IT country doctor" in a high-end retirement area, everyone's biggest IT problem I encounter here is keeping track of passwords. If an implanted read-only chip full of large random numbers were offered as an alternative to the whole password mess, 95% of this town would be on it like stink on skunk. No more lists of passwords in spidery handwriting taped onto monitors, no more having to come up with online identifiers cobbled up to satisfy increasingly arcane security rules and then forgotten. To log onto anything from your system, just place the palm of your hand on a USB-connected reader and the app, operating system or website would use the I'th random number on the chip as your password.
For our seasoned citizens, an authentication chip would be the greatest thing since Medicare.
Why not wear a chipped ring instead? That way you can change your ID... ...to the person you stole it from.
An ID "ring" appeals even less to me than a chip implant, because at least it's a lot harder for someone to grab an internal chip to spoof being me.
I think the smartest way to go about this would be to implant the chip at the top of your head, that way when you didn't want it read you could wear a tinfoil hat. Talk about killing two birds with one stone!
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They're just rutabagas.
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what's the average commute time for swedes?
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I did the exact same thing with my dog several years ago, and it cost less than $60.
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except the only "beast" will be some faceless corporation or government entity.... ...and the mafia types who won't think twice to sever one of your limbs to gain access to your riches.
No thanks. We didn't need it for the past 10,000 years, I don't see it needed now.
Its a dam RFI chip, why not just put it inside a ring, wristband or whatever you never take of?
As a Swede I have only seen it once and it was som guy on the train that had his commuter ticket on the chip. The rest of us have the ticket in the phone app there it's also bought.
Bad enough we have so much crap, face ID, chip cards and all this other crap.
It's just more conditioning, so in the years/decades to follow people become even more
accepting to this crap. "it's for your safety, for your convenience"
Have you forgotten the 'Think of the Children' excuse?
This time they will say that if your child gone missing and ended up being butchered and his body parts chopped to bits --- at least the police will be able to successfully identify the identity of the badly decomposed body parts, thanks to that 'wonderful chip'
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Borg IS a Swedish name.
Very convenient until someone decides they want something of yours, or access to something you'd access with your chip... and they chop your fucking hand off to gain access. You can bet that someone will come up with a way of cloning the chips using a reader they can just walk past you with. People will have to start wearing gloves with faraday cages built-in to avoid those. Convenience at this level is just stupid.
The big fears that the USA has about your government are not echoed in the developed world. We elect our government without the huge financial impact of your extreme right. Our ultra-conservatives are not only fewer than yours, they are not mainstream and they do not have as much money and media influence as yours.
Unlike you, we are less keen on our businesses misusing our personal information. This is why we have the GDPR which so many of your controllers find so hard to understand. Corporations are much more dangerous than governments. If they have information, they are forced to use it better than the people that own the USA.
Like you, we have criminals who would like to find out all about us. We do not have so many, they are less aggressive and they are not so well armed. The less power our corporations have, the less leaks over to the criminals as we hear happens in your country.
Because muslims are just like Swedish people, aren't they. What could possibly go wrong?
The swedes are really weird, their elections involve people publicly grabbing paper forms color-coded by party so everyone can see which one they vote for. They prefer paying with cards instead of cash so much that not even all supermarkets accept cash any more. And they like to implant ID chips. I guess the Swedish dream would be to be constantly tracked by large foreign companies: what you buy and eat, where you are and even your political leaning.
Wasn't there a documentary about what to do when pure, concentrated evil gets into your hand? I recall the name "Ash" and a chainsaw later replacing the possessed hand...
How about - no?
As a local, I think I would have heard something about this mass movement towards idiocy. Not a peep. I call bullshit, and wonder what exactly is the agenda of the submitter?
"To better keep track of you, my child."
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Your solution to a password list(manger) is to implant a serial number under their skin? A single immutable "password" for all the tings?
Are you so clueless that you don't know how RFID chips work? Contrary to the article summary, NOTHING IS STORED in the chip except for a 7byte unique identifier. All of the information including password access, medical records... is is retrieved from a database lookup using the identifier.
Do you think that using your social security number as a "password" for everything you do is a good idea? That's essentially what this is.
It is INSANELY EASY to clone or spoof this shit. This is an ASININE IDEA. But, what do you expect when you get your security technology from a soy-boy body piercer?
why you need to wer a chip at all????
Give any central authority power over you, and that authority will abuse it. Any power you delegate to someone else will one day come back to haunt you, with zero exceptions. Give someone absolute power over you and leave yourself no means to escape and you will be made a serf.
Swedes have completely given up on civilian firearm ownership, abdicating the option of self-defending their life or rights without government intervention and any hope of resisting any unjust or deadly government policy. They could not prevent a criminal from entering their home and they could never resist a political commissary if there ever came one to whisk them away. Their very survival now depends on the cooperation of criminals and the nicety of government to never send a political commissary. A fundamental error, since regarding 20th century history, the chances of a European country turning into a tyranny is about 2% per year. Protection of their life is now outsourced to a third party they have little control over and dependent on the hope that criminals never do crime and government never step on civilian rights. Fat chance.
Swedes have almost finished in giving up cash and with it any option of concluding even the tiniest contract between people that is not monitored, logged or controlled by the government. All their wealth is now a number in a computer they do not control, dependent on laws they cannot change. If something were to happen to their account balance, they could not pay for a phone call, let alone the lawyer to challenge it in court. Protection of all their assets and the option to fund alternative political parties is now outsourced to a third party they have little control over and dependent on the hope that banks never collect too many fees and the government never seizes wealth from political opponents. Fat chance.
Now they are all wildly in favor of giving up the remaining anonymity they may have, abdicating the last remaining option of interacting with the world without a central, electronic and easily monitored mode of control. They have outsourced the last part of their rights to act independently from a central authority, against the express permission of it. Protection of their free will, movement, interaction with the world now depends on the government allowing it.
They now cannot defend their life, their wealth and the kownledge of their whereabouts or interaction with the world without the government. They cannot defend any of that against a malicious government. They cannot fund an alternative political party or attend a political rally without the current ruling party having the courtesy to allow it. Their life is now entirely at the mercy of their government. I wonder how that's going to turn out.
By description, it really is the mark of the best. However, it's also a really good idea. That's the irony.
I had my friend (registered nurse) implant an RFID chip about 5 years ago in my hand. Since then, I have wired the doors on my house, garage, vehicles and safe with chip scanners.
It is incredibly convenient to have this chip. I use it daily. Saves me time. And the geeky cool factor hasn't waned.
Two unique stories about my chip:
1. It was a unique conversation with my sister, who is my executor, to explain that the chip will need to be dug out of my hand to get to my will.
2. The admin assistant at my office overheard me talking about my chip, and I had to spend 15 minutes calming her down and explaining that I am not the Beast, and have no plans to enslave the world's population.
Don't have a chip to pay for your burger? Please move out of the line and into the interrogation area!
FTFY
More Fat And Lazy Then Americans even
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Seems like it would be easier just to get a barcode tattooed on the back of your neck. You know, one with a number that begins with '999'?
..(at least as I see it) it's more about convenience. As in with a movement of your hand active switches when you enter a room, sits down at your work place or in front of your TV-screen. It's a tool for preferences.
Seen from security perspective it's lacking in the same way (and more so) as finger prints, face recognition etc: it's too easy to replicate.
Mundus Vult Decipi
Getting my popcorn for the chopped off hands used to loot man's house story..
Is it being implanted in the same place on all these people?
What? No, no reason, just curious...
Why yes, that does look like a scalpel but rest assured, it's not a real one. And I don't actually carry it around with me all the time...
What's wrong with religious people, I mean wtf? I just saw an episode of "Everything for Sweden" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and when told that less than 4% of Swedes attend church several of the Americans started to cry...
explaining that I am not the Beast, and have no plans to enslave the world's population.
Of course that's just what the Beast would say, isn't it?
Here's a question.
Why not just use a lockable wrist band, belt buckle, or Credit-Card sized Antenna, with an RFID in it?
If the mark of the beast is keeping you from getting an RFID chip, that can travel and cause all sorts of nastyness if your body doesn't react to it right, and is also susceptible to replay attack, then probably that's a good thing.
That is the real WTF.
It seems naive to believe the hardware will not be found to be vulnerable in the future, up to the point it will require replacement.
What happens if you are killed in a some type of aeroplane crash or industrial accident where they can't find your hand?
What happens if you are kidnapped and are never seen again?
What happens if you lose your hand (but still survive) in some accident?
No chip, no will !
Might be wise to have a back up plan for that will.
Unless it features contacts on the outside of the skin, it is a transceiver.
Yes, RFID chips are transcievers. But, with a horrendously crappy range.
And no really a good collision-resolution alrgorithms (*)
So unless the attacker use extremely conspicuous bazooka-style ginormous cantenna, they WILL definitely have trouble tracking those Swedish thumbs.
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(*) Though some RFID in some contactless cards I've seenchips do.
In one of the Uni I've worked at, if your hands are busy, you could unlock doors by bringing the pocket with your wallet (full of various RFID cards) to the general vicinity of the sensor. The card and sensor will manage to negociate despite all the others cards.
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Are your pure-blood native criminals too stupid?
I suspect that all the inbreeding to which the racist native criminals have subjected to themselves to keep their "pure blood" status, might have played out negatively and could indeed explain why they're much stupider~~ :-P
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The problem is that RFID has a much crappier range than the typical car keyfob.
In practice that would require the transmitter which goes near the victim to be crazy close (like in the same pocket where the victim put their hand), or to use a very conspicuous bazooka-style ginormous cantenna.
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None of your security plans work with RFID chips.
Thanks for playing Bullshit Bingo though.