Bruce Sterling, in Wired’s ARPHID Watch says:

*I’m surprised that Verichip didn’t think to promote this scheme themselves.

*People are reacting with predictable shock, shock, (((none more gleefully than

io9, presumably because the puckish editor’s got a Verichip in her))) but the “invention” here is dead simple: in principle, it’s an electronic parole device with a roadside IED bomb attached to it. They’re recast as an imaginary “GPS chip” and an imaginary cyanide dispenser. Both of those somehow both fit under the hides of undesirables.

via Arphid Watch: Implantable GPS “Killer Chip” creates press flap | Beyond The Beyond.

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