*RFID fans are aware that "Verichip" implantable RFID chips have not exactly been jumping off the shelves and into human flesh, lately. For years there, though, Verichip Corp was the howling scarlet beast of the RFID industry, an outfit that never saw a headline it didn't love.
*At the moment, the name "Verichip" is apparently owned by this obscure Korean company, while the former Verichip Corp now does business as "Positive ID."
http://investors.positiveidcorp.com/faq.cfm
*So, these are no longer Verichip's arphid glory days. But boy did it ever leave a spectacular urban legend. Have a look at the harvest of a mere ONE MONTH of wingnut New World Order RFID paranoia, now with an exciting Obamacare-Nazi spin. In today's stormy atmosphere of hysterical McCarthyite Lysenkoism, "Verichip" is the gift that keeps on giving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjyA29kPNiI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dlPVSWHFA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5aarAA8dqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__-ME6V2RI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_P-4iwKfCc
http://www.lambslain.com/2010/08/positiveids-implantable-microchip.html
http://beaconbulletin.com/2010/08/16/chip-implamt-medical-i-d-and-criminal-record-internalized/
http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=7019
*Then look a this poor handwringing arphid industry guy beefing about "irresponsible reporting on RFID." "Reporting?" None of that fanatical stuff up there is "reporting," and it bleeds from its pores all over RFID's shoes. RFID has drifted right into Obama Birth Certificate Land. It moved straight from huckster to hysteria, and it's horrifying.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/7820/1/2/
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"An intelligent discussion serves the interests of everyone. But an intelligent discussion means being objective about both the potential positive impacts of a new technology, as well as the potential negative effects. I pointed out to Kathrine Albrecht, the founder of CASPIAN and a well-known RFID opponent, that there was not a single positive use of RFID mentioned in her 300-page book, Spychips. She responded that it was not her job to point out the positive uses. I found that odd. How can you claim to be acting in the best interests of consumers if you don't tell them how this new technology might benefit them? How does that help them make smart decisions?"
(((How can you wax all indignant about journalistic accuracy for two pages, and still manage to misspell Katherine Albrecht's name while attacking her? Lord knows we're never blog punctuation Nazis here at BEYOND THE BEYOND, but, well... Well, that's like bailing back the sea with a fork, and the fork is plastic.)))
