[aldo_14]

Not a joke in the slightest......

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/10/employees_chipped/

A Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use Verichip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre. Until now, the employees entered the data centre with a VeriChip housed in a heart-shaped plastic casing that hangs from their keychain.

The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated RFID tag that is injected into the triceps area of the arm to uniquely identify individuals. The tag can be read by radio waves from a few inches away.

The news was reported by CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a US organisation that opposes the use of surveillance RFID cards.

Although CityWatcher does not require its employees to take an implant to keep their jobs, they won't get in the data centre without it. CASPIAN’s Katherine Albrecht says chipping sets an unsettling precedent. "It's wrong to link a person's paycheck with getting an implant,” she says.

CityWatcher argues that chipping employees is a move to increase the layer of security, as present systems can be compromised. However, CASPIAN warns that this can happen to implantable chips too. Security researcher Jonathan Westhues - author of a chapter in a book titled Hacking the Prox Card - recently demonstrated how the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned by a hacker. A cloned chip theoretically could duplicate an individual's VeriChip implant to access a secure area. ®

[Prophet]

Thats not so bad... I had to have a Radeon 9000 implanted to my forhead because my boss said thats the only way to get decent FPS while driving the company car... 

Anyway... That sucks...

[Nuclear1]

Oh NO! Security chips for going into a secure data center? God forbid!

Like the article said, it's not as if people are losing their jobs over not getting this implant. They only require it for gaining access to a certain data center. I don't see any reason to get all up in a wad over this.

Like I am right now.

[Flipside]

IIRC Subcutaneous Microchips require surgery to install. I don't go under the knife for any job.

[an0n]

They can be injected. They require minor surgery to remove though.

The important thing to remember is that they're removing people from the security process. Having employees photos in a database and checking people as they go through a security checkpoint is infinitely safer than this micro-chip bull****.

[Unknown Target]

If they don't like it, they can leave, and I'm sure many will. Personally I will never go into a job that requires surgery of any kind, and if it ever came out with a new requirement I would quit.