Disadvantages Of Human Implant

An enormous disadvantage would be the fact that the microchip is not as secure as it may sound. We do live in a new IT world where hacking into someone’s complete information can be harmful for the individual and extremely easy for the criminal especially since all the information is in one place.

For example: Most of what’s known outside of VeriChip Corp. and its supplier, Raytheon’s Spanish subsidiary, comes from the RFID hobbyist Jonathan Westhues. In 2005, journalist Annalee Newitz approached Westhues and asked him to try to spoof—to create a tag that gives off an identical radio signal—the VeriChip that she’d had implanted for a story in Wired.
For a device that is marketed as part of an access-control and security application, VeriChip was distressingly easy to mimic. Westhues had already built a digital RFID reader, which he called the Proxmarkii, when Newitz contacted him. Using his reader, he was easily able to turn Newitz’s chip on, record and analyze the signal emitted, and then reproduce that signal—tricking an actual VeriChip reader into believing it was querying Newitz’s implant.

This includes potential threat to invasion of privacy Mark Rasch is the former head of the computer-crime unit of the U.S. Justice Department. Says that "It's going to be used in unintended ways by third parties _ not just the government, but private investigators, marketers, lawyers building a case against you ..."

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