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US Army, the chips are in!

  • 11-05-2012 12:43AM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/11286-us-military-seeking-implantable-microchips-in-soldiers
    The U.S. government is developing implantable sensor microchips for use in American troops, supposedly to monitor their health on the battlefield, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced earlier this year seeking proposals. But critics of the scheme are speaking out, warning that the new technology could just be a prelude to expanding the use of related devices among the general population — with dangerous implications for freedom and privacy.

    According to news reports about the development, DARPA believes that being able to instantly receive updates about any potential medical problems among soldiers would give the U.S. armed forces an advantage over adversaries. Calling the implants "a truly disruptive innovation," the agency said the nanotechnology could revolutionize war — especially because most medical evacuations are a result of illness or disease rather than injuries sustained in battle.

    Can you just imagine being "chipped" and having being scanned and the owners know your entire life history before even walking into the shop/pub/health club etc. :eek:
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  • #2
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Just as Metal Gear Solid predicted:pac:


  • #3
    seantorious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭seantorious


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Can you just imagine being "chipped" and having being scanned and the owners know your entire life history before even walking into the shop/pub/health club etc. :eek:

    Could be useful, they could scan your home address and throw you in a taxi with it


  • #4
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww


  • #5
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    Thread not started by run to da hills shocker.


  • #6
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    Thread not started by run to da hills shocker.

    :)


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    120_Minutes wrote: »
    Thread not started by run to da hills shocker.
    I was about to say that he'll be along soon, but he's here. :p


  • #8
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was about to say that he'll be along soon, but he's here. :p

    I was going to bring it into AH but I said I would leave it as it would end up in CT



    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056633175


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    I'd like to know if the US army plan to deactivate them when the squaddies retire!


  • #10
    partyatmygaff
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    First it'll be nanomachines, then it'll be FOXDIE, then we'll all be injecting ourselves in the neck with nanomachine suppressors to stop the PATRIOTS from controlling us.

    Hideo Kojima can see in to the future... or the US Army bases its R&D on Metal Gear Solid.


  • #11
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    chips are down.... the chips are down


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  • #12
    Pedant
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    First the army, then the world!! Just like the internet.

    It's all part of a government conspiracy to monitor everyone!! They'll be planting these chips in babies when their born soon and they'll remain with them for the rest of their lives.

    Alex Jones was right!!

    Hurp Durp.


  • #13
    longhalloween
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    Blay wrote: »
    Just as Metal Gear Solid predicted:pac:

    Exactly:
    War has changed. ID tagged soldiers carry ID tagged gear. The nanomachines inside their bodies enchance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control...information control...emotion control...battlefield control. Everything is monitored, and kept under control. The Age of Deterrence has become the Age of Control. And he who has control of the battlefield has control over history


  • #14
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Pedant wrote: »
    First the army, then the world!! Just like the internet.

    It's all part of a government conspiracy to monitor everyone!! They'll be planting these chips in babies when their born soon and they'll remain with them for the rest of their lives.

    Alex Jones was right!!

    Hurp Durp.
    Foretold 2000 years ago

    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A16-18&version=KJV


  • #15
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    I do believe it has been founded that the chip and pin credit cards are not encrypted and can read by a scanner....the scanner can be held at pocket height and read peoples cards as they walk by. Talk over here is that Mythbusters got one of the scanners and did it for an episode. It pulled account numbers and owners personal info. The show never made it to air...


  • #16
    Battered Mars Bar
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    Sure why not? Most people have decided to give up their freedom and privacy anyway by posting their entire lives on the internet via facebook. If we live in a society whereby the majority are answerable and obey the laws of the few, sure may aswell be tagged...god forbid we be a nuisance by protesting and upsetting the big boys.


  • #17
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    Sure why not? Most people have decided to give up their freedom and privacy anyway by posting their entire lives on the internet via facebook. If we live in a society whereby the majority are answerable and obey the laws of the few, sure may aswell be tagged...god forbid we be a nuisance by protesting and upsetting the big boys.

    And be tracked to within a centimeter or two .

    This is one thing I will not be accepting with my life.


  • #18
    Pushtrak
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    I don't think these chips would react well to salt and vinegar.


  • #19
    Battered Mars Bar
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

    And be tracked to within a centimeter or two .

    This is one thing I will not be accepting with my life.

    What's wrong with being tracked? As the culture of idiots would say "if you've nothing to hide what are you afraid of?"


  • #20
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Pushtrak wrote: »
    I don't think these chips would react well to salt and vinegar.

    They will if you put them in a microwave. :D


  • #21
    OneArt
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    Oldthinkers believe it doubleplusungood bellyfeel!


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    What's wrong with being tracked? As the culture of idiots would say "if you've nothing to hide what are you afraid of?"
    I would turn that on it's head and ask why does an organisation or state feel the need to track people!


  • #23
    BornToKill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭BornToKill


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    And be tracked to within a centimeter or two .

    This is one thing I will not be accepting with my life.

    So sweet; you actually expect them to ask your permission!


  • #24
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    BornToKill wrote: »
    So sweet; you actually expect them to ask your permission!
    No, it will come by stealth through the Cashless System.

    Have it pretty well explained here.


  • #25
    Firefox11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11


    Hey we all carry iphones, smartphones now . It's not any different really.


  • #26
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Firefox11 wrote: »
    Hey we all carry iphones, smartphones now . It's not any different really.
    From a track and trace point of view no.

    But you can leave a smart phone at home, take out the battery or throw it away, not with the implant.


  • #27
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    From a soldiers perspective its going to give him the edge in the battlefield; anything that gives you an advantage over the enemy gives not only you but your unit a greater chance of survival.


  • #28
    Shryke
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    This looks especially bad looking at the bigger picture. The US is having a gigantic explosion in the surveillance industry.


  • #29
    GalwayKiefer
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    So what happens when a soldier is captured in civvies behind enemy lines? The Red Cross story wont cut it if the enemy can just scan them.


  • #30
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Shryke wrote: »
    This looks especially bad looking at the bigger picture. The US is having a gigantic explosion in the surveillance industry.

    This has been my point all along and its not just America, its the rest of the world, one only has to look at the UK. We are not too far behind either and I also wonder whose financing it.

    When George Orwell wrote his book 1984 he never meant it to be an instruction manual for governments.

    The 2012 Olympics in London is like a stage for WW3 rather than an international sports event and its all artificial paranoia brought on by false flag that the authorities invent themselves..


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  • #31
    CruelCoin
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Can you just imagine being "chipped" and having being scanned and the owners know your entire life history before even walking into the shop/pub/health club etc. :eek:

    Jesus christ, i am so sick of people thinking they are some special little snowflake with priceless personal info.

    If you're doing nothing illegal, then why the hub-bub? Just makes me think you have something to hide.

    Just imagine being able to walk into a pub, and the barman telling you he has a new beer/wine in which may suit you based on your previous drinking history.
    Or walking into easons and them telling you that the latest issue of what you bought last time is out
    Or walking into a health club and the fitness coach being able to tell you exactly what profile you need?
    Being able to shop with less mindless browsing, getting better suited drink, magazines, food, clothes etc.

    Possibilities are endless, open your mind a bit.


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