This is also common For some time we’ve been following the colorful past of RFID maker VeriChip, a company that promotes implanting RFID chips in humans for identification purposes. As if the stated goal of the company wasn’t disturbing enough, it has a history of lying to regulators and to the public about the nature of its devices, and how they would be used. Now, two researchers, presenting at a hacker conference, have demonstrated that the company’s chips can easily be cloned, essentially allowing an individual to assume another’s identity. Not surprisingly, this stands in contradiction to VeriChip’s claim that their products are impossible to counterfeit. In fact, the researchers claim that the company’s chips have no security mechanism whatsoever. For its part, VeriChip has responded saying it hasn’t reviewed the evidence, and that it’s still easier to steal someone’s ID out of a wallet than it is to gain information from a chip in someone’s arm. That may be true, but when your wallet is stolen, you can realize it quickly and alert the relevant authorities. How do you know when someone’s passed by you with a wireless scanner? If fingerprint identification can be defeated with Play-Doh, and someone can clone your embedded identity chip without you knowing it, there’s something to be said for old-fashioned, disposable ID systems. Clone - one that copies or closely resembles another, as in appearance or function: “filled with business-school clones in gray and blue suits” (Michael M. Thomas). I should add that aOL Search Data Reportedly Released
(PC World) PC World - The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns. World - the earth with its inhabitants. This is pretty cool experts discuss wireless vulnerability
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AP - Some computers with wireles Internet capabilities are vulnerable to attacks that could expose passwords, bank account details and other sensitive information even if the machines aren’t actually online, researchers said here Wednesday.

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(Macworld.com) Macworld.com - Intel executives told employees on Thursday they would cut 1,000 managament jobs in an effort to rebound from poor profits in recent quarters, the company said. read on to check out what awaits you