“Scared Mexicans try under-the-skin tracking devices” (and exporting their society to us)

[Kennewickman]

Frankly, I think the article is trying to pull the wool over our eyes. IMO it is entirely within the limits of present technology some years ago to build very small implants, place them into a human body and trigger them with a satellite based signal to emit a few impulses for the establishment of an exact location.

“It’s nonsense,” said Mark Corner, an RFID researcher and computer science professor at the University of Massachusetts.
The development of an RFID human implant that could work as a tracking device remains far off, said Justin Patton, managing director of the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center, which specializes in product and merchandise tracking for retail companies such as Wal-Mart.
(Nick Miroff/The Washington Post) - A radio frequency identification chip (RFID) is essentially a small antenna in a tiny glass tube.
 Mexico's ongoing drug war continues to claim lives and disrupt order in the country.

“There’s no way in the world something that size can communicate with a satellite,” Patton said. “I have expensive systems with batteries on board, and even they can’t be read from a distance greater than a couple hundred meters, with no interference in the way.” Water is a major barrier for radio frequency, he added, and because the human body is mostly made up of water, it would dull the signal, as would metal, concrete and other solid materials.


• Decapitated bodies left at popular Acapulco spots
• Mexican cartels move into human trafficking
• Mexicans protest drug war with silent march
• Mexico’s drug lords fall, but war goes on



http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...J_story_1.html

[Armstrong]

This ties in with your post, Kennewickman...

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