Company requires RFID injection

From: Greg Perry <gr..._at_liveammo.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:57:14 -0500

Company requires RFID injection
Published: 2006-02-10

Two employees have been injected with RFID chips this week as part of a
new requirement to access their company's datacenter.

Cincinnati based surveillance company CityWatcher.com created the policy
with the hopes of increasing security in the datacenter where video
surveillance tapes are stored. In the past, employees accessed the room
with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new
regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip
must be injected into the bicep to gain access, a release from
spychips.com said on Thursday.

Although the company does not require the microchips be implanted to
maintain employment, anyone without one will not be able to access the
datacenter, according to a Register article.

Ironically, the extra security sought may be offset by a recent
discovery of Jonathan Westhues, where the security researcher showed the
VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant’s
authentication. When contacted, those at CityWatcher were unaware of the
chip's security issue, according to the spychips.com release.
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