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There's little research into these sort of implants, but lots of potential, IMHO.

At one point, I though about a subdermal RFID to use with an RFID door-lock. Then I realized it can trivially be copied and spoofed, so no. I'm currently considering the utility of an NFC chip which shares a vcard (vcf) to quickly share contact details. Sound doable, trivial, and somewhat useful.

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This is one case where security by obscurity works- at least for now anyway. Only a very, very small percentage of people have implanted RFID chips- I doubt anyone would anticipate that. Furthermore, if you coupled it with a non working biometric reader or something you could do some serious mystifying to people trying to break in.

Single point of failure is that someone who really wants your stuff/identity/what have you will end up taking that RFID chip + body part with them.

I've heard that these implants also get you some piece of mind knowing that you are safe/secure. Dogs get these implants too and they look more intelligent then those who don't get to have them.

Would be amusing to program the RFID in someone's dog to open the front door though, necessitating picking up a German Shepard to hold it up to a reader. Better still make the dog a spare key and nobody would ever notice.

Cat flaps already do this...

Mhhh... I realise now that cats are the perfect NSA intrusion mecanism in fact. You can put some kitten of troy in front of the port of a hacker and your feline agent will couple and connect with the hacker laptop with a 100% of accuracy for many minutes each day. Is the perfect crime, if we think about it... they could call it, the PPP (Pretty Pink Panther) project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

20 million spent and the cat was released and inmediately killed by a taxi?. Monty-pythonesque. Reality is always better than fiction :-)

Time to create the Rule 36 of internet?: if exists, someone will try to spy it.

These people clearly did not have any experience with cats. What does a cat do when released into a strange place? It panics and then hides.

There was someone that put a collar with a wifi scanner on his cat and used it to map out where there were open networks in his area (well in the parts of the area that the cat went)....

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