Chips in the body. The technology of implanting chips in people and the danger of chipization - total control

The Government of the Russian Federation has signed an order to implant chips in every person by 2025, and the order is already 3 years old (Order of the Ministry of Industry and Energy No. 311 of August 7, 2007 “On Approval of the Strategy for the Development of the Russian Electronic Industry for the Period until 2025” and the Strategy for the Development of the Electronic Industry attached to it Russia for the period up to 2025)

The order is already 3 years old, but no one heard about it before because it was secret and banned from publication in the media. Now you can already find a lot of information on this topic, and the information is very contradictory.

The chip will be implanted under the skin of the forearm and will serve as: all kinds of documents - such as a passport, medical policy, driver's license, and! electronic wallet (well, etc.). In the future, it is planned to switch to electronic money, only electronic! thus, he will not see the money, he will not be able to hold it in his hands, but will depend on the new payment system and in case of some kind of disloyalty to it, he can easily be deprived of access to money and information.

Also, the chip will provide each person with access to information networks (for example, the Internet). Nanoelectronics will be integrated with bio-objects (as people are already called!) and will supposedly improve the quality of life and provide life support. Well, further plans built-in wireless nanoelectronic devices that provide constant contact of a person with his surrounding intellectual environment. The person can also be tracked by GPS.

By the way, using this chip, it will even be possible to destroy an unwanted object.

When I read an article about implantation of chips, I thought: “Here is the author! read science fiction. But after the middle, evidence followed, and, frankly, I was horrified by the actions of our Government.”

For example, here are some irrefutable documents: Okinawa charter of the global information society, signed in 2000 by the presidents of the G8 countries, Russia has "Information Society Development Strategy"; the conclusion of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, approved by the European Commission, that is, the government of the European Union, which states that it will be very useful for every person to implant a microchip in the near future. There is still a lot of proof, you can read it in Pruflink.

Also exists "foresight project" which will only apply to children. The essence of the project is to get rid of the concept of “Today's” family in principle, i.e. children will not have to be brought up by their parents, but live in certain communities. Through the chip, they will be able to upload directly into their brains, for example, school course mathematics and know it “by heart” in 2 hours. But here's what they will upload with him, I'm even afraid to guess.

This is not fiction, it is absolutely serious, and moreover, officially! There is information that they want to put the draft on the signature of President Medvedev as state program. That is, the main innovation that determines the future place of Russia in the international division of labor is the production of highly intelligent controlled biorobots for the needs of the "world elite". As you wish, but even the word "fascism" to define what happens in the end, seems to me too soft. At the international exhibition of innovations in Shanghai - "EXPO-2010", it was the implementation of the foresight project that formed the basis of the Russian exposition!

It is also worth noting the replica Russian Government on the chip implantation project: “Yes, it is dangerous, but since the technology is invented anyway, others will introduce it. So, we need to implement first.”

I don’t even know how to comment on this, something like this: “Guys, well, this is some kind of pi ... ts.” I apologize in advance for my impatience.

A Swedish company is turning employees into cyborgs by implanting them with tiny microchips. Since 2015, 150 employees have agreed to chipization. The modification allows them to open doors and order food. What drives people who decide on such experiments with their bodies, and what they risk, Futurist figured out.

Since January 2015, Epicenter in Stockholm has been implanting microchips the size of a grain of rice into employees.

“The biggest benefit, in my opinion, is convenience,” says Patrick Masterton, co-founder and CEO of Epicenter, opening the door with a casual wave of his hand.

The company provides a network and office space for aspiring digital startups. Currently, under its auspices there are more than 100 companies and about 2,000 employees. Epicenter calls itself "Stockholm's first digital Innovation House".

Implants can replace half the purse of the average office worker: they perform the function of credit cards and passes. With a wave of your hand, you can open the door to your office, print documents or order a smoothie. These devices are optional, but have quickly gained popularity among Epicenter employees. The company hosts monthly events where participants can receive implants for free, as well as parties in honor of chipped newcomers.

Who implants chips and why

There is a whole movement of bodyhackers. The icon of this movement is Neil Harbisson, who suffers from achromatopsia and has expanded his ability to perceive color on his own. He implanted an antenna that allows him to hear colors: the device translates the frequencies corresponding to different colors into sound. In 2013, bodyhacker Tim Cannon implanted himself with a Circadia 1.0 chip without anesthesia, which records data from his body and is able to transfer it to any Android mobile device. And two years later, Muscovite Vlad Zaitsev implanted an NFC chip from a Troika transport card under his skin.

"I did it because it was interesting how a certain new experience- there are few people with implanted chips (two years ago there were even fewer), and it was interesting what advantages they have, what disadvantages, convenient or not convenient, and so on. Replenished the card through the phone with NFC. I have now replaced it with a bank card. There are about five people like me in Moscow - these are the ones I know. There is an idea about implanting a remote control for a smart home, but for now it's just an idea. It's hard to compare this to an addiction to tattoos and piercings. “I want more” - there is no such thing, ”Vlad said in an interview with Futurist.

People have long been expanding the boundaries of their body with the help of pacemakers, hearing aids, bionic prostheses that help regain lost physical abilities. The famous physicist Stephen Hawking, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and has lost the ability to speak after a tracheostomy, uses a sensor attached to a movable neck muscle to display text on a monitor screen. This allows him to communicate with the outside world.

Engineers around the world are creating exoskeletons that are designed to restore mobility to people with paralysis. And Neuralink, launched by Elon Musk in 2016, is working on a brain-computer interface. It is assumed that this system will allow the use of computers for the treatment of diseases of the brain. However, the implantation of chips with passwords and data electronic cards voluntarily still seems to us something radical. Epicenter is the first company-wide use of bionics.

cyborg security

The obvious issue is security and privacy.

“Of course, implanting something into the body is a very important step, and I myself had a hard time deciding on it,” says Masterton.

At first, he expressed doubts about implants that store information that can be transmitted to other devices using electromagnetic waves. Such devices can be used by hackers who will gain access to a huge amount of information. The more complex the microchip, the more ethical dilemmas their use poses.

"The data you can get from a chip in your body is very different from the data you can get from a smartphone," explains Ben Libberton, a microbiologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. “In theory, you can access data about a person’s health, where they are, how often they work and how long they go to the toilet, and so on.”

However, for now, people with microchips can sleep peacefully: their data can only be stolen with a hand.

“Technology does not leave such an opportunity - data transmission is possible only at a distance of 10cm. So satellite tracking is not possible. It is also impossible to learn anything about health yet - the chip does not have such technologies. He has security like bank card with the function of contactless payments,” says Vlad.

Digital slavery

In 2015, Kaspersky Lab employees took part in the chip implantation experiment. These are small (12 mm by 2 mm) devices that can interact with public transport turnstiles, laptops and smartphones. Potentially, such chips can be loaded with a driver's license, medical card, keys to electronic locks, bank and discount card data, universal tickets and passwords for smartphones and accounts, phone book - all personal information. However, the purpose of the experiment was not only to enjoy the benefits of automatically opening doors and turnstiles, but also to identify the flaws in the system.

“The more I live the life of a novice cyborg (tm), the more terrible it is for me to look into the future - we let the genie out of the bottle, but we are completely unprepared for the result. And to change the situation requires colossal efforts on the very high level," admits Evgeny Chereshnev, a participant in the experiment.

The idea of ​​chipization may seem like the beginning of digital slavery. One of the main problems Evgeny considers is the incompatibility of chips with different types of devices, which can deprive the wearer of the device of freedom of choice. This will tie a cyborgized person to the infrastructure and can become a subject of blackmail: for example, if the bus depot and the subway “accept” different chips, then the person will have to choose what to use.

Another problem: what will happen to a person when the chip becomes unusable and destroys all his data? Eugene experienced a similar feeling when his chip expired. According to him, while wearing the chip, the brain is rebuilt: instead of specific data, only information remains in memory, where they can be found.

“Here you live your usual life, at one fine (actually not very) moment you suddenly forget the keys to the apartment somewhere - and you find out about it only by staring at the lock in bewilderment own apartment and a rug with a cynical inscription "Welcome". At this point, you are likely to be seriously upset, right? Now imagine that you were immediately left without anything at all - naked, without documents, money, access to the phone book, logins to everything Accounts: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, VK, Foursquare, mobile banking, what else happens there - and so on. And sharks and Dobermans, kites and vultures begin to cut circles around, because the system instantly considers you not only not your own, but truly a stranger. You are persona non grata, and no one really wants to talk to you, ”writes Evgeny.

Evgeny is sure that it is necessary to work out in detail the rules for using chips before they are allowed into mass use. The microchip carrier should be given a second chance: to provide access to basic services, such as a digital identifier, which would guarantee the chip owner the rights to information until the device is renewed.

Those who now implant chips under their skin believe that these devices are capable of transferring humanity to new level. One of the chipped employees of Epicenter, when asked about the meaning of the operation, said: "I choose the future." Petr Levich, co-founder of the Future Foundation and head of the Department of Interaction of Science, Technology and Society at the Moscow Institute of Technology, claims that 80% of people in the world are in favor of cyborgization. However, in Russia, the fear of implantable gadgets is still high. This is due to the invasive nature of the operations. Vlad Zaitsev argues that the cyborgization of people on their own will remain a narrow area for a long time to come. And Evgeny Chereshnev does not advise implanting chips until the infrastructure and security system are thought out - this can cause a lot of inconvenience instead of the expected effect. However, in cases serious illnesses or injury, implantable gadgets and bionic prostheses may be in demand.

Implanted chips can make life easier

In the US, it is becoming fashionable to implant radio tag chips (RFID), which make life much easier in the digital age.

Some Americans have agreed to voluntarily implant radio tags (RFID) into their bodies. Using a $2 chip sewn under the skin between your thumb and forefinger, you can enter your desired password with a wave of your hand less than 10 cm from a $50 scanner connected to your computer. With the help of an implanted chip, you can open the door of your apartment or connect to a PC.

"I want to have guaranteed access to the things I need. RFID chips are very suitable for me. Even if I suddenly find myself naked in the park, I can still get into my house. In this age of this kind of devices, this kind of device can make life much easier. One of the main The advantage of such chips is that they cannot be lost or stolen, and if necessary, they can be removed from the body,” said Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old Canadian entrepreneur who wished to implant a microchip. Arriving in New York for an event dedicated to implant chips, he said that, as he knew, at least 20 people use this technology.

“This chip doesn’t bother me at all, I don’t even feel it,” says 23-year-old friend Amalya, student Jennifer Tomlin. “It doesn’t cause me any inconvenience. I don’t even know if it’s here.”

New Yorker Mikey Sklar, 28, sees RFID chips as the future. "In the future, these technologies will allow people to store and transmit any encoded personal information under a wide variety of circumstances," - said Sklar. In order to prevent attackers from reading information from the chip, Sklar protects his chip with a “shield” made of fabric.

Recall that for several years now, operations have been carried out in the United States to microchip implantation into the human body, which managed to cause a great resonance in society and met ardent enemies in the person of some religious and public organizations. As a rule, these devices are implanted into the organisms of seriously ill people for their identification, if necessary. However, the potential inherent in such devices led to the fact that a number of quite healthy American citizens decided to voluntarily implant microchips with passwords and other details into their bodies.

In addition to the United States, the implantation of RFID chips is also allowed in some other countries, such as Mexico. Back in 2002, Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) acquired the right to sell chips under the code name VeriChip. VeriChip, a division of ADS, is currently marketing and distributing such chips in the United States. According to the developers of the chip, the implantation procedure is painless and takes only a few minutes, and it is impossible to detect the implanted chip with the naked eye.

RFID chips are widely used for marking goods and animals. In addition - they find application in other areas - for example, last year their use helped identify victims' bodies Hurricane Katrina. Also, according to device developers, RFID microchips are simply irreplaceable in families where there are sick people.

According to CNews.ru

"Our microdevices can efficiently supply oxygen and nutrients to keep liver and kidney cells viable under laboratory conditions for at least a week," one scientist said at this conference on biological nanosystems.

"So far we have managed to create separate functioning elements, but the ultimate goal is the consciousness of fully functioning organs."

Garth Ehrlich, of the Allegheny Research Institute in Pittsburgh, told a conference that he and his colleagues are working on "intelligent" implants that will alert doctors if problems arise.

"Now 2-3 percent of joint replacement surgeries fail due to chronic bacterial infections of the biofilm," Ehrlich says.

"In this case, the only way out for the patient is to remove the implants, which leads to bone loss, extensive destruction of soft tissue, months of forced bed rest with intravenous antibiotics and a significant deterioration in the quality of life as a result of complete loss of mobility."

In the future, he predicts the creation of "intelligent" implants, equipped with microelectronic mechanical devices, which themselves will be able to recognize harmful bacteria. These same devices could release an antibacterial agent from a reservoir located, say, in the hip or knee joint and send radio signals, which will then be analyzed by doctors.

"There are technical challenges to be overcome, but I am confident that with the rapid development of technology we will be able to reach the goal," he said. one of the priorities."

American journalist Dylan Matthews left hand implanted RFID / NFC chip in a shell of special glass. How it was and what it gives - a translation of an interesting report about modern biohackers.

By the way, the end result looks like this:

When scanning with devices that support NFC (such as android phones, you can also buy an NFC scanner for your computer), you can save information there, or read existing information. That is, with such a chip, you can become a carrier of information - just like in science fiction films of the future.

On Android devices, such a chip is convenient to use instead of a PIN code or to unlock the device. If your office building has a magnetic lock, you can put information on the chip and safely open the door without getting the keys. Another lucky owner of the chip, Drew Andresen, made it so that now he can open and start his car without keys.

RFID/NFC chips are widely used for a wide variety of purposes.

It may seem that this is some kind of crazy "modification" of your body. However, at the “biohacker” events I attended with Zoltan Istvan (a transhumanist presidential candidate, an immortalist), my chip seemed like a rather conservative piece of technology. I have met people who have magnets sewn into their fingers or into their inner ear. Magnets will eventually have to be removed. And I only had a small cut on my arm.

Getting to know biohackers

In the small desert town of Tehachapi, north of Los Angeles, GrindFest is taking place, where "grinders" (fans of experiments in implanting electronics in the body) can test their devices, share them or brainstorm and generate new ideas.

Biohacking, or grinderism, is the practical expression of the ideas on which Zoltan's presidential campaign is based. He once wrote that a transhumanist is someone who "advocates the use of science and technology to change the world and help humanity." This is what biohackers do.

Zoltan promotes the idea of ​​eternal cybernetic life based on technologies that do not yet exist. For example, the opportunity to get an artificial heart that can cope with diseases; intracranial implants that will allow you to communicate telepathically and "send" films and programs directly to the optic nerve; bionic hands that will be so much stronger and more comfortable that people will want to replace the ones they have from birth.

Such technologies do not yet exist. The most advanced robotic heart, developed by French firm Carnat, is still being tested. The first two patients died within 3 months. No matter how wonderful modern prostheses are, they are not yet a full-fledged alternative to human hands. We can't read minds either.

Thus, if such radical discoveries are still only in the pipeline, then the statements of politicians such as Zoltan seem to be speculation. What is the point of the promise of eternal life if even more modest achievements are far from reaching the market?

That is why the biohacker convention is so important. They won't be able to extend each other's lives by 50 years, but they are using technology to slightly increase the capabilities of the human body. They substantiate Zoltan's speeches with something specific. They are those who use the achievements of technology for transhumanist purposes. Laird Allen, a convention attendee who traveled 600 miles from his home in Eureka, California, says: “People are talking all over the place about how artificial intelligence will make anime a reality and stuff like that. But they don't do anything themselves."

This is what the festival of biohackers looks like from the outside - quite marginal.

"This is not surgery"

The Techanapi Laboratory consists of two buildings. In the first, biohackers can drink and relax. The second is a garage, where all the most important things happen. In the main part of the garage, there were a couple of large tables shifted between themselves, strewn with soldering tools, tape measures, pliers and various microelectronics, varying in size from a grain of rice to a one-dollar coin, doomed to be installed under the skin of one of the participants.

Tehanapee Lab Space owner Geoffrey Tibetz led the tour. On the tables lay Petri dishes intended for "bacterial races".
“Basically, we take ‘participants from different holes“, to identify the fastest growing specimen.” Tibet explains.

On the right side of the garage is the operating room, where all the procedures take place directly. It looked very much like a doctor's office. This room had a yellow reception chair, a bathtub, a box for the safe disposal of syringes, painkillers and bandages.

However, the Tibetan does not like to talk about all this as a medical procedure. “This is not surgery because we are not trying to diagnose or cure anything. We are trying to modify our body,” says Tibetz. Piercings or tattoos are not surgery, he continues to reason, and what we do is slightly more serious modifications. Among grinders, it is customary to talk more about the aesthetic part of these improvements than about the practical part. Allen suggests that such modifications be referred to as "battle wounds", which involve receiving visible scars, similar to those left by duelists fighting with swords.

Magnets are the most popular implants

Apart from RFID/NFC chips like mine, the most popular implants today are fingertip magnets. Such magnets allow you to become a half-finished version of Magnetto. Or if you've ever dreamed of becoming the leader of militant mutants fighting for your rights and destroying your enemies by picking up paperclips by magnetizing them to the bottom of your index finger, then a chip like this is perfect for you.

Video demonstration of implanted magnets:

But the main argument I've heard is that magnets give you a kind of "sixth sense". Many of those with similar implants have told me that they were able to feel magnetic fields, albeit faintly, through their fingers. Without magnetic implants, such a feeling was hitherto unfamiliar to them. Although, it is impossible to speak about the complete success of such a decision. One of the participants complained to me that the magnets in his fingers interfered with working on the laptop: the computer automatically went into sleep mode, since the approach of his fingers was regarded by the laptop as closing the lid, in which magnets are built in just for this.

Turning ear cartilage into a speaker and other biohacking

The third main type of implant discussed at the event was the tragus implant. For non-otorhinolaryngologists, the "tragus" is a rigid projection of cartilage just above the inner ear. By placing magnets inside the traga, you will become the owner of permanent headphones with which you can listen to music. You connect to your audio source - smartphone, computer, sound system, whatever - with a standard 1/8" cable.

Lee talks about having a magnet implanted in his ear:

The sound travels through the battery powered amplifier to the coil necklace. The coil creates a magnetic field that oscillates according to the sound wave of the music. The magnetic field, in turn, moves the magnets in your ears. The movement of the magnets vibrates the air at the ear. "Vibrating air" is, in other words, "sound". And voila - you've transformed your ear cartilage into a speaker.

Justin Worst, a biohacker at GrindHouse Wetware, showed off the Northstar, a small disc-shaped implant in his arm. Grindhouse hopes to turn it into a gesture recognition device. On the this moment it's still a non-functional prototype that's useful for little more than light under the skin. But with Northstar 2.0, it will only be enough to wave a finger to get certain information from the phone without resorting to tapping the screen.

Even more interesting is Circadia. This is an implant that one of the founders of Grindhouse, Tim Canon, implanted in himself. With it, you can transfer temperature and pressure data to your phone via Bluetooth.

In this one-minute video, Tim talks about his implant:

In the future, it will also be possible to transmit more complex data, such as blood glucose levels. Perhaps someday, with this technology, it will be possible to quickly recognize a heart attack. Now Circadia is just an innovation. But someday - it's hard to say how soon - it will be able to save lives.

What is it like to have an implant

Zoltan was the first to be implanted with a chip, which is a fairly simple and quick process. The RFID chips are placed into a syringe like an injection. need to be sterilized desired area skin, inject an injection between the large and index fingers, enter the chip, and you're done. There will be some blood, but you can do without even a band-aid.
"I've never heard of any complications with it, of something breaking or anyone getting infected," says Tibetz.

When implanting magnets in the fingers, on the contrary, large incisions must be made, and the infection often enters the body. A rejection reaction may also occur. But RFID/NFC chips are about as secure as biohacking can get. Many people implant chips in the bodies of their pets. If someone's cat lives with it, why don't you try it?

So before we left, I decided to get myself a chip. At first, the injection was painful, but then everything went like clockwork. Intramuscular injection seemed to hurt a lot.

A chip implanted in a journalist under X-ray.

The results were a bit disappointing. In fact, you cannot use this chip without a device that it can communicate with. Many Android phones have NFC functionality, and you can download apps that allow you to enter or read information. But my iPhone's NFC chip only works with Apple Pay, and alas, I can't use it for fun biohacking purposes (at least not without jailbreaking my phone).

On the future and meaning of biohacking

But in some respects, the biohacker project is ideologically built in such a way that the modification you get can be both completely pointless and functionally practical. No one argues that the current "bio-iron" is nothing more than software, but running on blood - it can change people's lives.

In the meantime, this is more of a fun invention, without any pretense of saving anyone. But, to some extent, biohackers are confident that implants will play a life-saving role. Lee attributes his interest in biohacking to the ongoing deterioration of his eyesight. This innovation would really make a difference if the implants were able to give him superior vision, or improve his hearing to the point where he could perceive echolocation.

Despite all of the above, modifications face a major hurdle: most people don't want to become cyborgs. They don't like the idea of ​​being half machine. They do not really want to have chips in their organs that will track their vital signs. This is where the role of the biohacker reaches its zenith. Frankly, this does not give any trump cards, but at this very moment they appear and announce to the whole world "We are here, we are half machines, and we take the best of it." This helps to create a culture where implants are seen not as something creepy, but as something cutting edge and important. This helps to convey to people the idea that they deserve the right to change their bodies by adding electronics to them and actively shape their physical future, and not accept it as it is destined to be. The biohacker plays the same cultural role as the engineer.

They are trying to slowly but surely build a solid biohacking subculture that will infiltrate the public consciousness as it grows. But the mission they pursue is, on the whole, a common one.
“If we have the opportunity to move forward, why don’t we take advantage of it and really move forward?” asks biohacker Jeff Waldrip, also known by the pseudonym "Bird".

Original: vox.com, translation: 9net.ru, editing: Zozhnik

Many have already heard about the chipization of the population of the entire globe, but what is behind this, what consequences this introduction of nanotechnologies into the human body may have, is not clear to everyone. Experts talk about it.

It is known that secret experiments with the introduction of microchips have been carried out for a long time, in particular, we are talking about animals. At the moment, 15 percent of the US population already has a chip under their skin, not to mention third world countries such as Mexico, the Philippines and others, where chipization is in full swing. Chipirovat not only military personnel, politicians, but also without exception children. Chipization is one of the ways of global control over every citizen and over nations in general. Note that there are already chips on the market that contain a lethal dose of cyanide (hydrocyanic acid salts are the strongest poison).

(photo: Sergey Komkov, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, State Duma expert on education)

(photo: Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences, Vice President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems)

If a person falls into an area of ​​powerful radiation, the microchip can simply burn the person. In 2007, the order of the Ministry of Industry and Energy No. 311 dated August 7, 2007 was signed and approved on the implantation of an electronic device, a chip, into every Russian.

Konstantin Sivkov: “The introduction of the chip will allow some forces that control these satellites to control people anywhere in the world. This is done in order to ensure and exclude the possibility of any resistance in relation to this force, to identify people who are resisting, to find out who they are, to follow them and then easily destroy them. That is, it is essentially a system of total control over people.”

The chip should not only control the person, his location and conversations, but also control the person himself and his physical life. Wherein this device connected to the Internet and will be under the full control of not only Russia, but also other countries, such as the United States.

(Photo: Olga Yakovleva, member of the Moscow Region Bar Association, leader of the Civil Movement “The Land of Russia is the Property of the People”)

Section 3. Main goals and objectives of the Strategy

“... The introduction of nanotechnologies should further expand the depth of its penetration into the daily life of the population. Every individual must be in constant communication with global information and control networks such as the Internet.

Nanoelectronics will be integrated with bio-objects and provide continuous monitoring of their life support, improvement of the quality of life, and, thus, reduce the social costs of the state.

Built-in wireless nanoelectronic devices that ensure constant contact of a person with his surrounding intellectual environment will become widespread, means of direct wireless contact of the human brain with objects surrounding him will become widespread, vehicles and other people. The circulation of such products will exceed billions of pieces per year due to its widespread distribution ... ”, Olga Yakovleva reads the decree. She continues: “And this is not a fragment of the plot of a science fiction film, this is a current regulatory act Russian Federation without the knowledge of citizens ... This is legal preparation for the introduction of such methods of identifying people that will allow the implantation of chips in the human body.

(photo: Vladimir Nikitin, Russian State Duma deputy, political scientist)