Professor Capurro believes there are good and bad sides to the surveillance of implants. His concerns are with someone else tapping into another's implant and doing them harm as well as the abuse of human implants if used outside of the medical setting.
British
scientist Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading inserted a
contaminated version of an ID computer
chip, normally used to track pets, into his hand to
help prove that the chip was able to pass computer viruses on to
other external control systems. Dr.
Gasson's chip allows him to pass through security doors and activate
his cell phone. It uses ambient electromagnetic energy to transmit
data. Through a series of tests, Dr. Gasson was able to show that the
chip affects all surrounding computerized systems and if any
other implanted
chips connect to the system, they too would be damaged by
the contaminated chip. While
digital implants can be beneficial to the progress of cell phone
technology, Dr. Gasson warns that problems
can arise with having so many surrounding systems
interacting this way.
Implant
technology is also expected to traverse into the medical world (to
some extent it already has) |
clipped from www.dailytech.com
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