Text 4069, 62 rader
Skriven 2004-10-25 20:33:37 av Steve Asher (3:800/432.0)
   Kommentar till text 4059 av Gary Moore (1:396/45.0)
Ärende: Bush & Mark Of The Beast?
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Mulling over Gary Moore to Steve Asher 23 Oct 2004

 SA> The time is rapidly coming when all buying and selling
 SA> can be regulated by means of a mark in the right hand
 SA> or forehead as prophesied,

 GM> That this is already being tested in some parts of the world
 GM> simply amazes me.  It can be unnerving, just thinking about it.
 GM> Yet, the people are allowing these chips to be inserted under
 GM> their skin.  They're doing it willingly.

 SA> I've been expecting it for about 25 years, but it is recent events,
 SA> such as the internet as a way of conducting e-commerce, e-government
 SA> etc, with the dangers of identity fraud & the need for authentication,
 SA> together with the need to guard against terrorists & other "evil doers"
 SA> that makes the "chip" attractive as a way of identifying people both
 SA> online & offline.

 GM>  I've done a few minutes of searching on the Internet regarding the
 GM> use of chips implanted under the skin for identification and
 GM> commerce.  I'll be posting something about a company named Metro
 GM> Risk Management  Group (MRMG) that has secured distribution rights
 GM> for VeriChip solutions  in some countries.  It's a press release. 
 GM> Here's an extract: 

 GM>    MRMG also announced today it will no longer recommend the use of
 GM>    legacy biometric solutions such as retinal or fingerprint scans.
 GM>    Such technology requires expensive scanners and complex
 GM>    mathematical algorithms with a certain degree of error, deemed
 GM>    no longer acceptable for its financial clients. Instead, the
 GM>    VeriChip(TM) system offers a simpler, cost-effective and more
 GM>    reliable method of identification. About the size of a grain of
 GM>    rice, VeriChip(TM) is the world's first subdermal, radio
 GM>    frequency identification (RFID) microchip that has a variety of
 GM>    security, financial, and emergency identification to name a few
 GM>    planned projects.

 GM>  Steve, it gets even more interesting.

It does, indeed. There is very little on the MRMG website that I can see,
apart from links to a couple of press releases, including one where they
have a distribution agreement for VeriChips in Ecuador ... more than
550 subdermal RFID chips. My guess is that these would be for access to
secure areas & records, as has been done in Mexico, rather than anxious
parents "chipping" their kids in case of kidnap.

In any event, MRMG is a "channel partner" of LocatePLUS, which has
information on nearly 98% of the US adult population, & entries for
205 individuals in the US, which it flogs to 16,500 members - 2,000
law enforcement agencies - FBI, DEA, ATF / homeland security, anti
terrorism etc. "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing
to fear" etc.

(SOURCE: TMCnet - http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Oct/1085986.htm )

If you are interested, you can snoop around the LocatePLUS website
at http://www.locateplus.com/default.asp - like I just did. :)

Cheers, Steve..

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