Gizmodo – by Daniel Kolitz
These are, absolutely, very bleak times, but in a sense we should cherish them: we’re living through maybe the last stretch of history before employers start mandating microchips en masse. You’re going to miss living in fear of contracting a deadly virus, once HR brings out the scalpel—and then you’re going to miss the day you had a productivity tracker roughly sewn into your forearm, because of course that’s just the beginning. If I’ve learned anything from the news, it’s that rival foreign superpowers are obsessed with hacking things. And you can bet they’ll set to messing around with your body-chip, when the time comes. At the very least, they’ll try—there’s always the chance they might fail. For this week’s Giz Asks, we reached out to a number of experts to find out whether someone—the nerd down the street, the Russian government, whoever—could actually hack your microchip. Continue reading “Could Someone Hack My Microchip Implant?”