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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.
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.
Why not wear a chipped ring instead? That way you can change your ID if it gets compromised and no knives are involved.
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What the hell happened to that country anyway?!
Circumcision is child abuse.
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
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.
Those verses translates as "on", not "in".
Also, it says "mark" not "invisible implant".
The mark will be visible because it will be a political sign.. it has nothing to do with technology. Notice that it says you can have 1 of 3 options: the mark, the name or the number. In order for a name to stop you, it really has to be political rather than technological.
Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools
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"When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
Repeating this from up above:
"Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and the number is six hundred threescore and six." In gematria, which is a one to one cypher of letters and numerical values, 666 is "Neron Kaisar," or Emperor Nero. Revelation was about history and the present, not the far future.
I know you want the world to end. I know you're too weak to handle reality. But let's not make things worse for others with your delusions, 'k?
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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I'm guessing illiteracy?
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what's the average commute time for swedes?
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Every man in Valhalla must be hanging his head in shame to see this country today.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
A mark doesn't have to be visible to the eye, it can be visible to a scanner.
I did the exact same thing with my dog several years ago, and it cost less than $60.
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Early manuscripts tend to point to a copying error and indicate the original text as having 616 instead of 666, probably blowing your Nero theory.
Regardless, Revelation had both historical and prophetical implications. You can't study Revelation by itself. You need to throw in Daniel, several of the minor prophets of the Old Testament, and some of Christ's teachings and comments if you want to try to understand the end time prophetical implications of the text.
While the Swedish actions don't fall into the mark of the beast territory, getting people used to this technology will make it easier for the anti Christ to implement when he comes to power. It's pretty clear that he won't be 100% successful, but those who resist will pay a high price.
From what I've read, it does cause problems for some. It's a small glass tube implanted in the fleshy part between the thumb and index finger, which works well for most. Except those that use that part of both hands quite a bit, like woodworkers and mechanics.
I imagine it might interfere with some sports and recreation too, like archery, cross country skiing, tequila drinking, rappelling and foosball.
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.
So many are using it? This is only 0.04% of Swedes. More people die from bee stings than are even doing this.
You're several orders of magnitude off there, bud. Swedish bees are relatively docile and seldom sting. Over a ten year period, one death due to bee stings was recorded.
Borg IS a Swedish name.
Yes, it's terrible when a country is prosperous, tolerant, with a high degree of happiness in its population. Sad times indeed.
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?
"To better keep track of you, my child."
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Early manuscripts tend to point to a copying error and indicate the original text as having 616 instead of 666,
I recall seeing something about the reason it is 666, is because 7 is considered a holy / perfect number. So the 3 (also a special number in Christianity) 6's represent being incomplete.
Also seeing this show up reminds me of some email from almost 20 years ago stating that Bill Gates was the anti-Christ. It said the mouse (as in us holding the mouse in our hand.. therefor it was like a mark on the hand?) was the sign required on the hands... And then it used military code or whatever to turn his name and some other name into 666. Then some hilarious claim that if you had some nonexistent version of Excel, you could open up a secret section of it with a "hall of the damned" list of names. I wonder if I still have that email, it was pretty hilarious in how dark and foreboding it sounded.
My chip would contain not a single number, but a read-only array (1024? 2**32?) of large random integers. When you want to set up an online account of any kind, the software would read your chip, pick one value at random, and encipher as your match value the number and its index. If a password gets compromised, just sign up again in the same way.
So that's what happened IN the country, but what happened TO the country? As far as I can see nothing happened TO that country and they are doing just fine.
By the way complaining about genderless schools is something best left to those who aren't dominating local political stories with endless debates about who is allowed to use which restroom because everyone will sexually violate everyone else.
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.
Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools
-- "When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
Okay, I just read the article at Huff post. As a left-leaning person, I think that is fucking stupid. You are clearly out of real problems to solve if you are concerned about what position people are in when they pee. Shit like that gives the left a bad name.
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The individual is not responsible for the collective they are part of. Or are all Muslims terrorists now?
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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.
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We need overly aggressive men to stop the Islamic Horde!
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
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...
To give some context here one have to also understand that this was the local Left party in Södermanland, in the recent election they gathered a total of 11113 votes and it was a motion filed (and supported by) only 4 people. And naturally the motion was denied.
sadly, there's people who insist that we take everything in that document as being literal.
what about Moose bites? I hear those can be nasty?
Which usually comes before the most outspoken and vocal proponent of said thought process being caught in one of said bathrooms soliciting sex with someone OF THE SAME GENDER. Methinks those above me doth protest too much....
Seriously though, do you really think that 'feminizing young boys' is a fucking thing? lol....methinks daddy had a little too much alone time with some folks. Get some help!
Your mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's been opened.
Yeah, in Amerikkka you can just look towards the Republican party and it's Cheeto-in-Chief. Not too difficult to find folks running on dog whistle politics, now is it? :(
That's not to say that it DOESN'T happen in other countries, but you're trying to make it out like the whole of Europe is one big racist fest. We've all got problems...especially those who believe in some outdated misogynistic masturbatory fantasy where they're the UBERMAN... Poor fellas
Your mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's been opened.
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.
Yes, the chip reader would have to be set to return the value at just a single index at once, read any value no more often than every N seconds, and raise an alarm if any software attempted a "read different values as fast as possible" attack from one user. These are the sort of security features that people who have to make up their own passwords find odious now, but which in a chip-based system would be transparent to the user.
If the outcomes of the battle of Armageddon or the battle at the end of the millennial period were in doubt, your statements might be valid, but the they are not. In fact, the Bible states that the enemies will be defeated by the word of Christ and the armies coming with Christ won't need to raise a finger to assist Him.
Considering humanity, just because a person is maximally powerful doesn't mean they don't have enemies and it doesn't mean they won't be attacked to try to depose them even if the odds are against the attacker. You can look at countless examples through history. The spiritual realm is not stated to be any different - starting with Satan's original rebellion when he lost his place of power and honor in heaven and carrying through human history to the end recorded in Revelation.
If you read the text where the mark of the beast is mentioned, there is a direct tie to bowing down to worship the image of the beast - to accept the religion of the beast and worship it and the mark. I suspect that that is the primary problem associated with the mark of the beast. The mark itself is simply an acknowledgment that you have done the other to get it and thus are able to buy and sell merchandise in the open market. The Bible forbids accepting the mark (which is unidentified in form), the Antichrist's name or the number of his name.
The RFID chip or whatever the mark turns out to be in and of itself is probably of no consequence. It is the worship and acceptance of the beast that gets the person on the condemned list. The mark is the evidence that that has happened.
God does send angels throughout the world preaching the Gospel message to everyone who is left to accept Christ and reject the beast and warning them of the consequences in their own native tongues so none will have an excuse.
Revelation and Daniel and some other passages are rich in imagery. We won't know until the events unfold what exactly the proper interpretation is. And really, if you've accepted Christ as Savior, it doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong about what the proper interpretation of Revelation is. It will be seen in the fullness of time.
The beast, however, is symbolic of many things: a man (the Antichrist, some supernatural being released from the Abyss, and an eighth kingdom on Earth). The seven heads are symbolic. The 10 horns and the little horn are symbolic. It is interpreted in Revelation itself (chapter 17). The seven heads and ten horns are commonly interpreted as seven world empires - mountains with rulers. Five had fallen in John's day (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece). One existed (Rome). One was to come - of the 10 kingdoms oppressing Israel in the end times. The Antichrist would form the eighth. The seven heads and 10 horns are in parallel with the interpretation of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream with a head to the 10 toes of various materials which are also interpreted the same. The 10 toes represented kingdoms to come in the area of the old Roman Empire (the legs of the statue) but made of clay as not lasting. If you do a count, there are at least that many royal autocratic countries in the area of the old Roman Empire now - from England to various Islamic countries. There is no reason to come to different conclusions about what the Bible itself clearly interprets.
Regardless of the nature of the mark of the beast it is evidently needed according to prophecy to buy and sell at some point in the future. Hardly symbolic.
According to Bible prophecy scholars, the book of Daniel indicates the Antichrist would come from one of the four divisions of the old Grecian empire - part of the Seleucid empire according to Daniel 8 and 11. So although that covers a lot of territory, it also eliminates a vast amount more, including anyone from the United States.
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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