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- NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE, I'LL BE WATCHING YOU DEPARTMENT -
Are You Ready to be Implanted?
Biotech: Firm plans to sell implantable devices that can store
a variety of data about you.
A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell
microchips designed to be implanted into human beings, an
achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical
monitoring and ID screening.
Implantable chips have long been discussed by technologists
and denounced by those who object on religious grounds or fear
their use by a totalitarian state. But the company that did the
test, Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, said the specter
of terrorism is shifting attitudes. The direct union of man and
computer is no longer dismissed out of hand.
"The bottom line is, when people are trying to regain their
peace of mind, they're more open to new approaches," said Keith
Bolton, Applied Digital's chief technology officer. Applied
Digital, which had revenue of $165 million last year, has made
its mark by selling electronic chips that help farmers keep tabs
on the health and safety of their cows and other livestock.
The company also makes a monitoring bracelet for Alzheimer
patients, so that families can use global positioning satellite
systems to help find loved ones who might have wandered off.
Now the company sees a market among those who have artificial
organs and limbs. These folks will have up to 60 words of
relevant medical information implanted on chips. If the patients
are brought unconscious into an emergency room, technicians
equipped with special scanners will easily decipher the body's
internal topography.
The chips would need approval from the Food and Drug
Administration, which Applied Digital said it expects to receive
by midyear. The company said it already has secured permission
from the Federal Communications Commission--necessary because
the chips use radio frequencies.
Regulatory approval is not necessary overseas, however. Applied
Digital expects to be selling chips in South America in about
90 days. One potential market is kidnap targets, who could use
these chips in combination with global positioning devices.
Other potential applications would put the chips in the role of
an ultimate ID, capable of performing many of the roles that are
performed by keys and ATM cards.
"I'd be shocked if within 10 years you couldn't get a chip
implanted that would unlock your house, start your car and give
you money," said Chris Hables Gray, an associate professor of
computer science at the University of Great Falls in Montana
and author of "The Cyborg Citizen."
English cyberneticist Kevin Warwick won considerable notoriety
three years ago by implanting an electronic transmitter above
his left elbow. The implant opened doors and switched on lights
at his British University of Reading offices. He now is working
on experiments in which his nervous system is linked with a
computer.
If Warwick is the equivalent of the mad genius who injects
himself with a new vaccine to see whether it works, the Applied
Digital volunteer, 55-year-old New Jersey surgeon Richard Seelig,
sees himself as simply a consultant thrust by events into an
unexpected role.
Seelig had been working with Applied Digital since early this
year. He expected to do a traditional scientific study, calling
for volunteers who wanted to test out the role of chip implants.
Then came the terrorist attacks Sept. 11. Five days later,
Seelig injected himself with the chips.
"I was so compelled by what had happened," he said in a phone
interview. "One of the potential applications suddenly jumped
out--the ability to have a secure form of identification--and I
felt I had to take the next step."
So he injected one chip into his left forearm; the other went
in his right leg, next to his artificial hip. Each could hold
several sentences of information, although at the moment they
just contain serial numbers.
"There's no deformity of the skin," Seelig said. "I feel just
the same as I did before."
The chips that will be marketed next year are not true tracking
devices. For one thing, they have no internal power source.
Their data can't be read without a scanner.
The next generation of body chips, which transmits signals from
a distance, is still several years away. At the moment, this kind
of tracking device would have to be about 1 inch by 1 inch,
raising the likelihood of a rather unsightly bulge.
No one interviewed Tuesday questioned that Applied Digital had
done what it said it did, but not everyone thought there would
be a huge market.
"It's a glorified bar code, and there are not a lot of people
who are going to want it," said Michael Nova, the founder of
Graviton, a La Jolla company developing wireless machine-to-
machine communication systems. Using such a chip as a built-in
credit card, Nova said, would require a great deal of work.
"Stores would have to get the right software; credit card
companies would have to want to do it," Nova said. "At the
moment, this is an intriguing idea that doesn't have a market."
Which isn't necessarily going to keep it from being popular,
said futurist Paul Saffo.
"As some people wring their hands about the invasion of privacy
and civil liberty, a whole other generation is going to go,
'Cool! I've always wanted to embed technology in my body.' It's
going to be fashion," Saffo said. "One sure sign that teenagers
will love it is if it terrifies their parents."
Source: LA TIMES, DAVID STREITFELD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
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- ANOTHER OPINION DEPARTMENT -
Why the Idea of an Implanted ID Chip Makes my Skin Crawl
By David Coursey
In a recent column I introduced you to Digital Angel, a
combination of hardware and services that gives caregivers the
ability to track a lost patient--say, someone with Alzheimer's
who has wandered away from a care facility.
The idea of surreptitiously tracking people usually makes the
pro-privacy lobby see red, although privacy advocates have
indicated a willingness to make an exception in the case of a
person who can get lost in his or her own home.
WELL, THE OTHER SHOE has dropped. The company behind Digital
Angel has announced a new ID chip that can be used in people, or
at least once the FDA gives its approval. People who see this as
a frightening development are already calling it "Digital Devil"
and invoking various Biblical prophesies of doom. I think that
is taking it too far, but even paranoia has a point.
If you are familiar with the ID implants used for dogs, cats,
cows, and other animals, you pretty much have the concept
nailed. If you spend a moment thinking about the uses of this
technology, called VeriChip and introduced by Florida-based
Applied Digital Solutions, there are some very good ideas.
The chip itself is described as the size of a Tic Tac mint and
can be implanted with minimally invasive surgery--local
anesthesia, a small incision, and a Band-Aid to cover the wound.
The VeriChip can store about a paragraph's worth of information,
which can be "read" by a palm-sized scanning device from outside
the patient's body.
MEDICAL USES for the VeriChip include its use to both mark and
permanently identify implanted medical hardware, such as
pacemakers, heart valves, artificial joints, and pumps of
various types. Besides not always being visible to physicians,
the devices sometimes need new settings or are--gulp--recalled
by the manufacturer. The VeriChip can record original settings,
serial numbers, and similar information so one of your "parts"
doesn't become lost.
Future versions might allow additional information to be added
and even to be rewritten in the field. That would let doctors
update your medical record, making the information readily
available as needed.
Besides medical information, the devices can also be used to
store identity information, perhaps for use by emergency or
military personnel, or anyone who'd like to carry such
information--literally--as a part of his or her self.
But that application also leads us to the potential for abuse,
like placing identity information into you or me against our
will. Imagine a system in which the chips could be read at some
distance--say 20 feet--as a biometric tool for security
applications. Yes, this could bar sex offenders from, say,
entering a preschool, but it's also easy to think of how honest
people could get caught in this trap, too.
THE CONCEPT of a national identity card--something you'd carry
to use for matching with your fingerprint or retinal scan--gains
a new dimension with implant technology. Or perhaps the chips
could be implanted at birth as a sort of digital birth
certificate.
Thinking about such prospects reminds me of three essential
aspects of any new invention: The first is that technology is
amoral, even when there is a temptation to consider it immoral,
instead. Second, it's pretty hard to keep technology under
wraps: If something is technologically possible, somebody is
going to do it. And, finally, if something is created, it will
probably be both used and abused.
I hope that VeriChip and its ilk--which have great potential to
help people--will find their way into the hands of people who
are well-intentioned and smart in equal parts. But I am not
naive, either. This is what the ongoing privacy debate is about-
and the VeriChip gives us another good reason to pay close
attention to it.
Source: ZDnet
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- HIDDEN HAZARDS DEPARTMENT -
Some Firefighters Who Helped At WTC Have Mysterious Illness
Some California rescuers who flew to New York in a desperate
search for survivors after Sept. 11 have reported a mysterious
illness since their return, and worried state and local fire
officials are trying to find out why.
State and local fire officials said yesterday that they were
collecting data on a strange, persistent cough reported by some
members of the specialized Urban Search and Rescue teams that
flew to New York. The symptoms are similar to more debilitating
ones reported by New York firefighters in recent weeks.
"We brought back a few folks with some respiratory problems,
and there's enough of the respiratory problems out there that we
found it necessary to take a look," said Kim Zagaris, chief of
the California Office of Emergency Services' Fire and Rescue
branch.
Those suffering from the mysterious ailment describe symptoms
in some ways similar to those described by the New York Fire
Department's chief medical officer, who has has begun taking
samples, handing out respirators and calling the illness "World
Trade Center cough."
Union officials in New York have warned that thousands of
firefighters are affected to a degree that hampers their work,
and some may be forced to retire,
further depleting a department already stricken by Sept. 11
casualties. Menlo Park Deputy Fire Chief Ed Greene, who was on a
team of Peninsula and South Bay search and rescue specialists
flown into New York just nine days after the attacks on New York
and the Pentagon, said his own symptoms were far less serious.
"It's just kind of a recurring little dry cough. Nothing
serious, but it comes and goes," he said. "I would imagine the
guys back in New York are going through much worse than us."
COLDS COMMON
It's not unusual for firefighters to come back from an
operation with colds or other ailments, especially after a
lengthy, exhausting deployment that batters the immune system,
Greene and other fire officials said.
Menlo Park Fire Chief Miles Julihn said about half of the 62-
member group sent to New York had come back with some cold-like
symptoms -- even though the Menlo Park team was scrupulous in
wearing filters against the thick gray haze that lingered around
ground zero.
One man even appeared to have a fairly serious form of
pneumonia, Julihn said.
When firefighters were still feeling cruddy weeks after
returning, they began to be concerned, Julihn said.
"It's really hard to predict what that new soup might create in
terms of impact on our firefighters," he said. "Certainly we're
concerned about the potential long-term effects."
The air of lower Manhattan has been closely monitored by the
Environmental Protection Agency since Sept. 11. As of Dec. 20,
just 29 of 3,662 tests for asbestos had shown levels above
federal standards, according to the EPA Web site -- too low to
harm the general public, although the agency has warned rescue
workers to continue to wear respirators and wash away dust.
47 FROM SACRAMENTO FINE
Not all the California agencies that participated in the rescue
effort are reporting problems. Jim Luttrell, a captain in the
Sacramento Fire Department and president of the firefighters'
local union, said 47 firefighters from the Sacramento area had
been dispatched to help in New York.
"There haven't been any illnesses that I've heard of, and I've
been checking around," Luttrell said.
Nevertheless, Zagaris said the state had begun surveying
rescuers about two weeks ago -- Greene has already completed his
survey -- and putting their responses in a computer database.
After all, he said, nothing like the attack on the World Trade
Center has ever happened before, so there is nothing to compare
to the firefighters' ailments.
"I'd like to see if we've got some conclusive data," he said.
"I don't like to see any of our folks come back not feeling
good. We like to see that they're healthy and stay healthy."
Source: SF Chronicle, By Steve Rubenstein
================================================================
- NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, I'LL BE WATCHING YOU DEPARTMENT -
A look at the FBI's Computer Surveillance Scheme.
>From a cluttered warehouse on Third Street in San Francisco,
Rudy Rucker Jr. runs Monkeybrains.net, a tiny dial-up Internet
service provider and Web-hosting service - and on Nov. 25 his
servers were moving at a seriously sluggish pace. "My first
thought was, 'This sucks, my mail's not going fast enough,'"
Rucker Jr. tells me.
Some quick detective work revealed that a worm called Badtrans
was transmitting data stolen from more than 100,000 computers to
an address at IJustGotFired.com, a Web site Rucker Jr. hosts.
The Badtrans traffic - 100 e-mails a minute - was the source of
the slowdown. He promptly disabled the account.
Hacker attacks are old news. What's fascinating about Rucker
Jr.'s run-in with Badtrans is that it offers a glimpse at the
kind of personal information the Federal Bureau of Investigation
has publicly acknowledged it intends to collect. And it has
thrust Rucker Jr., the son of acclaimed sci-fi author Rudy
Rucker, into a cyber-standoff with the FBI.
Badtrans seems to be similar to an FBI project dubbed Magic
Lantern, a new "spy virus" first revealed in news reports by
MSNBC on Nov. 20. Magic Lantern, reportedly, can record every
keystroke a suspect makes and then transmit the information -
e-mail messages, passwords, what Web sites the suspect has
visited, etc. - back to the bureau.
The Badtrans worm is "almost exactly like Magic Lantern,"
security consultant and software designer Jesse Burns says. Like
Magic Lantern, Badtrans logs keystrokes and funnels the data
back to the worm's creator.
In this case the info was routed to 22 e-mail addresses, mostly
free Yahoo! and Excite accounts. Experts at tech security firm
Symantec labeled Badtrans a worst-case hacker attack - a
level-four threat - and quickly posted an antidote to the virus.
The massive flow of Badtrans bytes to Rucker Jr.'s servers
caught the eye of the FBI's computer crimes unit, and on Dec. 3
an agent gave him a ring. "I helped them with some information,"
Rucker Jr. says. "I gave them information I thought might be
pertinent to catching the people who were victimizing my
server."
But the bureau wanted something else. "They asked me if I could
store the data [harvested by the worm] for them and burn it on a
CD-ROM," he says. Rucker Jr. balked. "The data I have is juicy.
It's good for Big Brother surveillance, but it's not going to
help them solve their case." So he stalled, telling the agents
to mail a written request for the material.
Rucker Jr. shows me e-mail correspondence with David Freyman of
the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center in Newark,
N.J., that seems to back up his story. "Thanks for the update on
the saving [of] the information," a Dec. 12 message from Freyman
reads. Contacted by the Bay Guardian, Freyman declined to comment
on the probe.
Rucker Jr. says he won't give up the info, now up to 303,000
messages, or two gigabytes, without a court order. "If a judge
tells me to release it, I'll hand it over. I'm not going to jail
over this."
Seth Schoen is a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a digital civil liberties group that often butts
heads with the federal government. Schoen figures the FBI may
have valid reasons for requesting the data Rucker Jr. is
holding. "Presumably it will help their investigation - if they
want to know who is being victimized and what kind of
information is being collected," Schoen says.
However, Schoen is skeptical of the FBI's Magic Lantern scheme.
He says the bureau may find it difficult to target specific -
suspect - computers. "It's very tricky to collect information on
one individual," Schoen tells me.
On a computer monitor in his bedroom-office, Rucker Jr. gives
me a look at some of the stuff gathered by Badtrans - and, at
least theoretically, by Magic Lantern. I check out some e-mail
missives, searching on the word "anarchy." Sixty-six messages
pop up. One is by a high school student who started an "anarchy
club." Another is by a guy who thinks anarchy is a variant of
satanism.
Next I scroll through a few hundred Web site urls. I can see
who's been surfing for porn (blowyourload.com, yourpenis.com,
iloveporno.com), who's been applying for loans (freddiemac.com,
equityloansnow.com), who's been looking for jobs
(fairfieldcountyjobs.com, museumjobs.com).
I can see why the feds would be enamored with this kind of
technology: in terms of surveillance, this program makes
phone-tapping look like a laughable anachronism. It also gives
me the very creepy feeling of reading someone's diary. Scratch
that - it's more like having access to the diaries of thousands
of people.
"My instinct says not to give this information to the FBI,"
Rucker Jr. muses. "Thinking that Big Brother is right all the
time is bad for our country, it's bad for people's rights, it's
bad for people who want to live in little hellholes like this
running their own computer companies."
Source: A.C. Thompson
http://www.sfbg.com/News/36/12/fbi.html
================================================================
- WASHINGTON LIGHTS DEPARTMENT -
Trout Lake UFO Reports
TROUT LAKE -- With over 2000 eyewitnesses here at the Sattva
Sanctuary in Trout Lake, some of which are Astro/Nuclear/Plasma
physicists, 14+ hours of video of ships stopping, lighting up
on command, accelerating, making right angle turns, landing and
morphing into as many as four brilliant lights then back to
one, appearing with pre-knowledge right on schedule, and with
pictures taken by UFO investigators etc., it seems this is not
enough.
This case, if the evidence presented in a court of law,
would win hands down as proof UFOs are real. People are
executed on less evidence. There are even pictures of ships
stepping down in vibration. Scientists, such as Jim Todd at the
Omsi Planetarium say these are nothing more than satellites. We
are at a complete loss as to how a scientist with any ability
to reason or apply scientific method could make such a
statement after viewing the footage.
These objects are coming in every size shape and color, are
seen by multiple eyewitnesses. They are shown maneuvering,
responding to requests by people on the ground to light up,
landing on the mountain, and flying behind trees.
They allowed us to photograph them with pre-knowledge of the
event. Any reasonable mind would come to the conclusion that
these are unknowns, they do not fit into any know parameter and
indeed need further study. There is no landing strip in the
nearby forest, and satellites do not change directions, stop,
and land. Enjoy the latest photos:
http://www.cazekiel.org/eceti/photos2.htm
================================================================
- ON THE ROAD AGAIN DEPARTMENT -
'Bigfootmobile' Gets Rolling With Sasquatch Studies
MANASSAS, Va. -- A Virginia man is taking Bigfoot research to
America's highways.
William Dranginis is putting the finishing touches on what he
calls "The Bigfoot Primate Research Lab" -- a souped-up motor
home filled to the gills with top-of-the-line sasquatch
detecting equipment.
The 1989 camper includes high-tech gadgets like night-vision,
time-lapse and thermal imaging cameras, as well as a bed,
toilet and shower.
42-year-old Dranginis -- who works for a video surveillance
company -- says he had a close encounter with a Bigfoot a few
years back in the Virginia woods, and he's been hooked ever
since.
Dranginis hopes to hit the road in his "Bigfootmobile" in
January, but expects he'll probably travel alone because other
people, "...will just confuse things."
Source: Wireless Flash
================================================================
- TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION DEPARTMENT -
Woman Says 'LORD OF THE RINGS' Movie Accurate About Elves
SAN DIEGO -- The new "Lord of the Rings" movie isn't fantasy for
a woman from Central Texas -- it's fact.
The 31 year old -- who goes by the name "Syleniel" -- claims
she's the reincarnation of an elf that lived in a world similar
to "Lord of the Rings."
Syleniel says the elves in the hit flick are "very reminiscent"
of the mannerisms, clothing and weaponry that she remembers from
her previous elf life.
She also claims the elf language used in the film is very
accurate and the actors are using authentic "elvish accents"
when speaking English.
Syleniel says others of elvish descent should be very moved by
the movie and could even lose their "elf control" and weep at
the sight of an authentic elf homeland.
Source: Wireless Flash
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