chips in immigrants

[phaney at mail.utexas.edu]

A small point, but the other thing about those chips is that anybody with a
little knowledge about that technology can falsify them.  A couple of months
ago, a tech commentator named Annalee Newitz appeared on Democracy Now!
desribing her experiment with an RFID chip.  She had one implanted in her arm,
then had a friend try to detect the signal and fabricate a chip that could
duplicate it.  It took him about 15 minutes using equipment available at any
Radio Shack.  So this proposal amounts to a plan to throw a lot of pork barrell
money at VeriChip and force a lot of immigrants to throw their money at
tech-savvy coyotes.  They already falsify social security cards.  Why not this?

--Pete Haney