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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #750 on: April 14, 2017, 06:05:28 pm »


https://theintercept.com/2017/04/14/leaked-nsa-malware-threatens-windows-users-around-the-world/

LEAKED NSA MALWARE THREATENS WINDOWS USERS AROUND THE WORLD
Sam Biddle
April 14 2017, 3:35 p.m.

The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The software could give nearly anyone with sufficient technical knowledge the ability to wreak havoc on millions of Microsoft users.

The leak includes a litany of typically codenamed software “implants” with names like ODDJOB, ZIPPYBEER, and ESTEEMAUDIT, capable of breaking into — and in some cases seizing control of — computers running version of the Windows operating system earlier than the most recent Windows 10. The vulnerable Windows versions ran more than 65 percent of desktop computers surfing the web last month, according to estimates from the tracking firm Net Market Share.

The crown jewel of the implant collection appears to be a program named FUZZBUNCH, which essentially automates the deployment of NSA malware, and would allow a member of agency’s Tailored Access Operations group to more easily infect a target from their desk.

According to security researcher and hacker Matthew Hickey, co-founder of Hacker House, the significance of what’s now publicly available, including “zero day” attacks on previously undisclosed vulnerabilities, cannot be overstated: “I don’t think I have ever seen so much exploits and 0day [exploits] released at one time in my entire life,” he told The Intercept via Twitter DM, “and I have been involved in computer hacking and security for 20 years.” Affected computers will remain vulnerable until Microsoft releases patches for the zero-day vulnerabilities and, more crucially, until their owners then apply those patches.

“This is as big as it gets,” Hickey said. “Nation-state attack tools are now in the hands of anyone who cares to download them…it’s literally a cyberweapon for hacking into computers…people will be using these attacks for years to come.”

Hickey provided The Intercept with a video of FUZZBUNCH being used to compromise a virtual computer running Windows Server 2008–an industry survey from 2016 cited this operating system as the most widely used of its kind.

Susan Hennessey, an editor at Lawfare and former NSA attorney, wrote on Twitter that the leak will cause “immense harm to both U.S. intel interests and public security simultaneously.”

A Microsoft spokesperson told The Intercept “We are reviewing the report and will take the necessary actions to protect our customers.” We asked Microsoft if the NSA at any point offered to provide information that would help protect Windows users from these attacks, given that the leak has been threatened since August 2016, to which they replied “our focus at this time is reviewing the current report.” The company later clarified that “At this time, other than reporters, no individual or organization has contacted us in relation to the materials released by Shadow Brokers.”

Update: April 14th, 2017, 7:20 p.m.

This post has been updated with an additional comment from Microsoft.

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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #751 on: April 15, 2017, 09:42:27 am »


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fake-facebook-french-election_us_58f168f4e4b0da2ff860febe?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

TECH 04/14/2017 10:36 pm ET
Facebook Cracks Down On 30,000 Fake News Accounts Ahead of French Election
The social media company is taking out full-page newspaper ads with tips for spotting untrustworthy sites.
By Mary Papenfuss

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Too late for the U.S. presidential election, Facebook is going after 30,000 phony accounts used to distribute fake news in France, ahead of the national vote there.

The company is using automated methods to help screen out the fakes, such as finding content repeated on hundreds of the phony sites. Facebook said in a statement Friday that it’s taking “decisive action” against the accounts, presumably shutting them down.

“While these most recent improvements will not result in the removal of every fake account, we are dedicated to continually improving our effectiveness,” Facebook technical program manager Shabnam Shaik wrote in a post.

The company is relying on “improvements to recognize these inauthentic accounts more easily by identifying patterns of activity without assessing the content itself,” Shaik added. Facebook hopes to “reduce the spread of material generated through inauthentic activity, including spam, misinformation, or other deceptive content that is often shared by creators of fake accounts.”

The company is running full-page ads in several French newspapers with tips on how to spot fake news, reports Tech Crunch. The ads urge readers to carefully check the URL, date, photos, and facts in an article to decide whether it can be trusted.

Facebook is a key element in any effective fake-news strategy. Phony Facebook sites can amplify concocted stories a thousand-fold as they are repeated by people across a nation or the world. Readers or search engines then mistakenly judge the fake stories as real and important based on the number of people sharing them.

Both Germany and France are taking extra precautions after the proliferation of fake news during the U.S. election, some of which intelligence agencies claim was orchestrated by the Kremlin.

Facebook conceded it was partly responsible for the spread of fake news during the U.S. election. Heavily promoted fake articles claiming that Hilary Clinton sold weapons to ISIS  became more popular than stories about the final days of the campaign.

The first round of the French presidential election takes place April 23. Facebook has been running fact-checking programs on its sites, hoping to weed out fake news and slow its distribution, Deutsche Welle reports.

In a separate crackdown, Facebook announced Friday it had pulled the plug on a major spam operation out of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and other countries. The operation mainly reached out to publisher Facebook pages in an attempt to gain Facebook friends, who would then be targeted by spam, according to a Facebook statement.


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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #752 on: April 15, 2017, 01:53:55 pm »

Facebook Cracks Down On 30,000 Fake News Accounts Ahead of French Election
The social media company is taking out full-page newspaper ads with tips for spotting untrustworthy sites.
By Mary Papenfuss


I would be easier to list the TRUSTWORTHY news sites :P  You could count those on one hand :D

Seems FB thinks Wall Street Journal is okay :D

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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #753 on: April 16, 2017, 06:36:34 pm »

Speaking of Microsoft…

As some of you may know, I suffered three computer meltdowns in rapid succession last year, around the time I was temporarily evicted (still have an appeal in the Court of Appeals) from my lovely home and 'coincidently', there appeared way too many anomalies that directly affected my personal life.

If I were truly paranoid, I might correlate the timing of my exclusive interview with my friend, Political Prisoner Pete Santilli (a front-page feature story in Disaster Survival Magazine), who was incarcerated on bogus charges (ALL of which were dropped by the Federal Prosecutors before any trial - after Pete spent way too many months in a Federal lockup in Portland, Oregon), with the multitude of 'problems' that immediately presented themselves after that brilliant story. The Feds may not have appreciated it as much as I do.  LOL

Anyway…that 'fixed' Mac be back!

And they will call you a radical…IF YOU THINK YOU ARE PARANOID.

Now, to personalize this story…

This is from the Mac OS X 10.7, Lion - 3.1 Xeon Quad Core (two 3.0 GHz E5472 Quad-Core processors) 16 GB DDR2 SDRAM) connected to the InterNet where we visited Deagel previously to get this graphic:



And came back to find that a 'LIST' has been made of IP addresses that have been adjudged to be not worthy and thusly 'not allowed' (BANNED!) to now grace the electronic abyss of what's known as Deagel.com.

OOPS!




Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Did we pick up a CTV (Computer Transferred Virus)?

We'll check.




Does that graphic actually indicate over ten trillion Tb?   :P

One might think that the people able to mount this level of attack are not children holed up in Mom's basement.   :P

Or, it could merely be ArMap having a bit of fun.     8)

Gotta love how helpful Microsoft Product Support Services is.   :P

Here's the last page on Wayback for anyone interested :
https://web.archive.org/web/20150416005440/http://www.deagel.com/country/forecast.asp

Now, where wuz me?

Oh, that's right - back to cleaning the Desert Eagle.    ;)

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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #754 on: April 16, 2017, 06:50:08 pm »
Well, I love Anonymous and the other interfering pigs can stick a hose up their nose.

I know I'm on their watch list because I have been friends with a very well known targeted individual.

I can just see all of them at their pc's reading and flagging.
I know that I know nothing - thanks Capricorn.

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« Reply #755 on: April 16, 2017, 07:15:29 pm »
come on thor,everybody knows sintilli is fbi informant just as aj is too.right now glp is on fbi lockdown.so is lop.they are in coplandia also but i havent confronted them yet over it.wouldnt surprise me if this site has an informant but im not ready to go that far yet either.
that fellow that originally pointed me here was protoplasmic traveler,he was running a muslim honeypot and lone wolf school.most ct forums are just lone wolf schools.very suttle schools.
you aint famous unless they want you famous and they have dirt on you to control you.or you come out of disney brainwashing academy.
control the narrative.
thats why im such a threat,im hacking all the systems and have been pretty successful at it so far.
thats why ct is dieing.ct was an intel portal.we old timers know it.
so now they are in a panic.that rain over nk was my idea.lets see if they follow through.
truth is the usa gov is one giant bs factory and ive got it leveraged hard.
proof is in the responses ive gotten after applying stimuli at key points in the matrix then watching reactions and results.
i could go down a list of facts and argue till im blue in the face but whats it matter?
i know whats up.
my latest exploit,ol mark zuckerburg aint running for prez now is he?
i took mr robot just like i said i would and exploited it and im gonna continue to exploit it.
the thing is,tptb can get on board or ill make it really hard on them,just as they did us.
theres only one thing in this country tptb should truly fear and its me and they know it.
so to those non members monitoring this convo,im coming for you,if you dont get on the robomont train!
« Last Edit: April 16, 2017, 07:45:17 pm by robomont »
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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #756 on: April 17, 2017, 01:15:40 pm »
Did we pick up a CTV (Computer Transferred Virus)?
No, your IP address was put on a black list.

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Does that graphic actually indicate over ten trillion Tb?   :P
No, it shows over ten million TB. :)

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One might think that the people able to mount this level of attack are not children holed up in Mom's basement.   :P
That's not an attack, that's just a useless program giving wrong information.

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Or, it could merely be ArMap having a bit of fun.     8)
Fun with a Mac? Hardly.  :P

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Gotta love how helpful Microsoft Product Support Services is.   :P
The only relation to Microsoft appears to be the server operating system used by Deagel.com (Windows Server 2012), and has nothing to do with the rest.

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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #757 on: June 27, 2017, 06:57:39 am »
 
 i don't fly anywhere but this goes here  and i am glad to be THIS old...sigh


http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/the-newest-airport-security-measure-is-very-very-creepy/ar-BBDhmHB?li=BBnbfcL

The Newest Airport Security Measure Is Very, Very Creepy
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If you have flown with JetBlue or Delta airlines lately, you might recall a new program that allows passengers to board their flights with a facial recognition scan. However, you might not have known that these systems were also the first phase of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 'Biometric Exit' program, which has been in place since June of last year, Slate reports.

According to Slate, the DHS has partnered with Delta to make face recognition scans mandatory for certain international flights leaving Atlanta and New York. DHS is also working with JetBlue to develop a similar system for travelers flying from Boston to Aruba.

So, how does it work? Essentially, computers “match passport and visa photos of U.S. visa holders to photos taken at the airport from which they’re departing the country,” Mashable says. “This helps the U.S. make sure the people getting on the plane are the same people who hold those visas.”

Still, the two programs are slightly different. The Delta system compares a photo of the passenger’s face, taken by a kiosk at the boarding gate, to photos from State Department databases. It also checks passengers’ citizenship or immigration status. If you’re flying with JetBlue, you can voluntarily get your face scanned instead of using a physical ticket.

And these systems aren’t going away anytime soon; in fact, the program is expected to expand in the coming years. Homeland Security is currently negotiating to make face recognition a common feature across all American TSA security checkpoints, says U.S. Customs and Border Protection executive John Wagner.

If you ask us, facial recognition scans seem kind of fun… and futuristic. But before you even step foot in an airport, make sure you’re not making these mistakes before your next flight.

computer glitch .. go to the article and click on the last sentence to continue..
i'm getting stuck





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« Reply #758 on: June 27, 2017, 08:37:17 am »
Speaking of "security" creepy:



And the return:

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« Reply #759 on: June 27, 2017, 10:31:58 am »
I will take days on the road with four kids over flying.  Flying has had way too much unfavorable publicity recently.

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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #760 on: July 12, 2017, 01:23:01 pm »

POLITICS 07/12/2017 05:46 am ET | Updated 1 hour ago
It Isn’t Déjà Vu. The Internet Is Fighting For Net Neutrality. Again.
“The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do online.”

By Ryan Grenoble

It’s not you. Some of your favorite websites really do look different today.

July 12 has been deemed a “day of action” by more than 200 websites, companies and organizations in support of net neutrality, a fundamental rule underpinning the internet that prevents service providers from playing favorites with or otherwise discriminating against data as it travels on their network.

The list of participants includes tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook and Netflix, and literally hundreds of other sites, from Reddit, Spotify and Airbnb to Pornhub, each of which is raising the issue Wednesday with their own spin.

Mark Zuckerberg also threw his hat in the ring, personally pledging Facebook’s continued backing of pro-net neutrality Federal Communications Commission regulations.

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Today people across the US are rallying together to save net neutrality.
Net neutrality is the idea that the internet should be free and open for everyone. If a service provider can block you from seeing certain content or can make you pay extra for it, that hurts all of us and we should have rules against it.
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Video platform Vimeo told Recode it will prominently feature a brief video explaining the importance of net neutrality, which both President Donald Trump and Ajit Pai, the Republican FCC chairman he appointed, oppose.

This spring, Pai took the first steps toward dismantling a 2015 Obama-era net neutrality rule that classified telecoms as Title II “common carriers,” which, among other things, prevents internet service providers (ISPs) from making “unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services.”

Pai argues the rule has stifled internet investment and innovation, but most major internet players disagree, painting it instead as a play by companies like Comcast and Verizon to tip the scales in their favor at the cost of... well, everyone else.

Without net neutrality, for instance, Comcast could hypothetically prioritize content produced by NBC, which it owns, while slowing access to Netflix. Similarly, Verizon, which owns HuffPost’s parent company, Oath, could allot extra bandwidth to HuffPost content at the expense of others.

Comcast went on a PR offensive ahead of Wednesday’s action, trumpeting its support for an “open internet,” while somehow also trying to make the case that Title II protections and net neutrality are unrelated.

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Verizon, which has sued the FCC over the rules, also affirmed its commitment to an “open internet” on Wednesday, but countered that regulating internet providers as common carriers hinders their ability to innovate.

“It’s in all of our interests to ensure that consumers can access the legal content of their choice when and how they want,” wrote Will Johnson, senior vice president for federal regulatory and legal affairs. “It also is in all of our interests for businesses to have certainty so they can invest in networks and create new products and offers with confidence. And providers throughout the Internet ecosystem should be able to expand and grow their networks and services without fear of being cut-short by regulation.”

(HuffPost’s union is represented by the Writers Guild of America, East, which has joined Wednesday’s action in support of net neutrality.)

AT&T, meanwhile, attempted to play both sides of the coin by simultaneously endorsing the “day of action” while also continuing to support scrapping Title II. Critics accused the telecommunications giant of “co-opting” the movement:

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Mignon Clyburn, the FCC’s lone remaining commissioner who is also a Democrat, broke with Pai Wednesday and re-upped her commitment to net neutrality. In an unambiguous statement, she positioned Pai’s efforts to repeal Title II as being on the wrong side of history.

“Today I stand with those who believe that a free and open internet is a foundational principle of our democracy,” she said. ”That is why I am excited that on this day consumers, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes, including broadband providers and internet startups, are speaking out with a unified voice in favor of strong net neutrality rules grounded in Title II.”

As the internet nonprofit Mozilla explains it:

Net neutrality is fundamental to free speech.

Without net neutrality, big companies could censor people and perspectives online. Net neutrality has been called the “First Amendment of the Internet.”

Net neutrality protects small businesses and innovators who are just getting started.

Without net neutrality, creators and entrepreneurs could struggle to reach new users. Investment in new ideas would dry up and only the big companies would survive, stifling innovation.

Net neutrality allows consumers — not big companies — to choose what they watch & do online.

Without net neutrality, ISPs could decide you watched too many videos on Netflix in one day and throttle your Internet speeds, while keeping their own video apps running smooth.
“The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do online,” said Battle for the Net, a consortium of advocacy groups, in an announcement explaining the need for Wednesday’s action. “If they get their way, they’ll allow widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees. On July 12th, the Internet will come together to stop them.”

The Internet needs to remain a level playing field where the reach of one’s voice is determined by quality of ideas and not a handful of CEOs.
Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee
In a statement Wednesday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez also voiced his support for net neutrality and encouraged followers to call their representatives and write the FCC.

“The Internet needs to remain a level playing field where the reach of one’s voice is determined by quality of ideas and not a handful of CEOs,” he said. “The free flow of information shouldn’t be impeded by greedy gatekeepers. The Republicans who put the wallets of big telecom companies and their lobbyists over the best interests of their constituents need to be held accountable.”

The FCC is accepting public comment on its proposed rollback until July 17.

This article has been updated with more comments on net neutrality.


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« Reply #761 on: July 25, 2017, 06:16:24 am »

from kid's toys to cleaning robots
can't trust anyone anymore..sigh
oh yeah smart homes    and visa'a push for a money-less world :(   :'(
...yikes


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/roomba-maker-may-share-maps-of-users-homes-with-google-amazon-or-apple/ar-AAoOgXM?li=BBnbfcL

Roomba maker may share maps of users' homes with Google, Amazon or Apple

The Guardian
Alex Hern    23 mins ago


The maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum, iRobot, has found itself embroiled in a privacy row after its chief executive suggested it may begin selling floor plans of customers’ homes, derived from the movement data of their autonomous servants.

“There’s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can deliver once you have a rich map of the home that the user has allowed to be shared,” said Colin Angle, iRobot’s boss.

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Angle told Reuters that iRobot,
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-irobot-strategy-idUSKBN1A91A5?il=0
which made Roomba compatible with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant in March, could reach a deal to sell its maps to one or more of the Big Three – Amazon, Apple and Google’s Alphabet – in the next couple of years. None of the three commented on this story.

The plans have been received positively by investors, sending iRobot’s stock soaring to $102 in mid-June from $35 a year ago and giving it a market value of nearly $2.5 billion on 2016 revenue of $660 million.

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But consumer advocates have been more concerned by the proposal. Selling data about users’ homes raises clear privacy issues, said Ben Rose, an analyst who covers iRobot for Battle Road Research. Customers could find it “sort of a scary thing,” he said.

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Angle said iRobot would not sell data without its customers’ permission, but he expressed confidence most would give their consent in order to access the smart home functions.

The company’s terms of service appear to give the company the right to sell such data already, however. When signing up for the company’s Home app, which connects to its smart robots, customers have to agree to a privacy policy that states that it can share personal information with subsidiaries, third party vendors, and the government, as well as in connection with “any company transaction” such as a merger or external investment.

“Maybe that doesn’t unnerve you, but it probably should,” says Rhett Jones of technology site Gizmodo. “This is all part of the larger quest for a few major companies to hoover up every bit of data about you that they can. Now, they want to know all about your living space."



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« Reply #762 on: July 26, 2017, 08:19:44 am »
well this shouldn't surprise anyone...


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/microchips-wisconsin-company-employees.html

Microchip Implants for Employees? One Company Says Yes
By MAGGIE ASTOR JULY 25, 2017

At first blush, it sounds like the talk of a conspiracy theorist: a company implanting microchips under employees’ skin. But it’s not a conspiracy, and employees are lining up for the opportunity.

On Aug. 1, employees at Three Square Market, a technology company in Wisconsin, can choose to have a chip the size of a grain of rice injected between their thumb and index finger. Once that is done, any task involving RFID technology — swiping into the office building, paying for food in the cafeteria — can be accomplished with a wave of the hand.

The program is not mandatory, but as of Monday, more than 50 out of 80 employees at Three Square’s headquarters in River Falls, Wis., had volunteered.

“It was pretty much 100 percent yes right from the get-go for me,” said Sam Bengtson, a software engineer. “In the next five to 10 years, this is going to be something that isn’t scoffed at so much, or is more normal. So I like to jump on the bandwagon with these kind of things early, just to say that I have it.”

Jon Krusell, another software engineer, and Melissa Timmins, the company’s sales director, were more hesitant. Mr. Krusell, who said he was excited about the technology but leery of an implanted device, might get a ring with a chip instead.

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« Reply #763 on: July 26, 2017, 10:08:27 am »
well this shouldn't surprise anyone...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/microchips-wisconsin-company-employees.html

Microchip Implants for Employees? One Company Says Yes
By MAGGIE ASTOR JULY 25, 2017

At first blush, it sounds like the talk of a conspiracy theorist: a company implanting microchips under employees’ skin. But it’s not a conspiracy, and employees are lining up for the opportunity.

On Aug. 1, employees at Three Square Market, a technology company in Wisconsin, can choose to have a chip the size of a grain of rice injected between their thumb and index finger. Once that is done, any task involving RFID technology — swiping into the office building, paying for food in the cafeteria — can be accomplished with a wave of the hand.

The program is not mandatory, but as of Monday, more than 50 out of 80 employees at Three Square’s headquarters in River Falls, Wis., had volunteered.

“It was pretty much 100 percent yes right from the get-go for me,” said Sam Bengtson, a software engineer. “In the next five to 10 years, this is going to be something that isn’t scoffed at so much, or is more normal. So I like to jump on the bandwagon with these kind of things early, just to say that I have it.”

Jon Krusell, another software engineer, and Melissa Timmins, the company’s sales director, were more hesitant. Mr. Krusell, who said he was excited about the technology but leery of an implanted device, might get a ring with a chip instead.

I can see doing this kind of thing in super high-security areas of the government and their classified contractors, but not in the civilian sector.
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Re: they know what you are doing
« Reply #764 on: July 26, 2017, 10:15:05 am »
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might get a ring with a chip instead.

Now that idea I might go for, a chip in a ring or watch, encrypted, with secure information such as I.D. and banking info; but not in the meatsuit

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