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her er en artikel om hvordan det går med de kongresser om hvordan fremtidens
betalingssystem vil være, det skal siges at det sidste forslag allerede er
en realitet hos hunde som ID








ID WORLD CONGRESS 2003


Delegates from around the world met in Paris, France last week to attend the
ID World Conference. Attendees heard over 30 global industry leaders
address business and technical issues regarding the current and future
applications of RFID, biometrics, cards and data collection technologies.
Many of the delegates at this conference believe these new technologies will
help put an end to the estimated $50 billion in damages done each year to
corporations and consumers through identity theft.

Most experts believe that we will be using and thinking about money in a
very different way within five years. However, just which technologies will
be leading the way is still unclear. Credit card companies, banks and
retailers say no single system has proven itself and consumers will likely
wind up with some combination of the different technologies. Researchers
are test marketing a combination of new gadgets, radio frequency
identification tags (RFID) and biometric ID systems to see which of these
will be most widely accepted.

Many mobile phone companies are hoping that the cell phone will become one
of the primary components of new ID technology. A cell phone can store
information such as credit card numbers and will allow a person to enter a
PIN to verify information. The goal of some cell phone developers is to
include a RFID chip in mobile phones that would equip them to be used to
make purchases, similar to the RFID technology already being used by some
gas stations. Exxon and Mobil have been using RFID chips with their
Speedpass - a small plastic "wand" encasing a computer chip and a tiny radio
antenna, one small enough to conveniently hook onto a key ring. The chip
contains a code to identify its user and the antenna can communicate with a
receiver built into a gas pump or a reader set up next to a cash register.
To make a purchase, a consumer can wave a Speedpass near the gas pump or
reader. The receiver picks up the consumer's identity and sends a signal
back to a central computer, which verifies the ID and matches it to a credit
card account. Within seconds, the purchase gets approved and charged to the
user's account. If cell phones come equipped with such RFID chips, we may
soon be seeing users waving their phones at gas pumps in the near future.

The difficulty with any of these systems is still security. How can the
public avoid the theft and fraudulent use of cell phones or Speedpasses or
credit cards for that matter? This is why some ID experts argue for the
merging of RFID technology with biometrics, the most popular forms of which
are fingerprint recognition systems. By placing a finger on the reader pad,
punching in a PIN and scrolling through a menu on the available screen, a
person can choose which credit card to use and complete a transaction.
Fingerprint readers could be incorporated on cell phones to verify the
identity of their owners, allowing people to shop securely with their mobile
phones. [What a nightmare driving down the road will be then!] MasterCard
is already considering adding fingerprint readers to "smart" credit cards.

However, one company would like to see this combination of RFID and
biometrics taken even further. Scott Silverman, CEO of Applied Digital
Solutions believes a new syringe-injectable microchip implant for humans
would be the best fraud-proof method available for identifying people. The
company is already experimenting with RFID chips for secure building access,
computer access, storage of medical records, anti-kidnapping initiatives and
a variety of law-enforcement applications.

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>ID WORLD CONGRESS 2003
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Det bliver evt. mindre spændende for dem,
som et fremtidigt velstandssamfund skulle
nægte at værge på grund af utilstrækkelig
kreditværdighed og anden uformåenhed.

»Men gør dette folk hvad ondt er og hører
det ej min røst, angrer jeg det gode som
var stillet dem i udsigt.« Jer. 18,10.

Mængden af indsatte i fængsler og anbragte
på institutioner kan dog åbenbart stige til
groteske højder efter alt at dømme. Ja,
netop som vækstfilosofiens lykkesmede
står på magtens tinde med skyhøj løn og
løfter om grønne skove på programmet
rammes verdenstræet af de kolde hjerters
første vinterstorm.

Et had, som ingen kender magen til, er under
opmarch. Det bliver såkaldte vargtider, når
Zion ryster i sin grundvold - og ulven slipper
fri af lænken, som Herren lod smede mens
den endnu var hvalp. Men hvorfra skal de
selvgode vente sig hjælp, når det viser sig
at deres hjertesuk sjældent bliver hørt?
Se, dét er faren ved at forlade sig på
levebrødsprædikanternes traktement.

Og når den hellige moder træder frem,
gør deres indre splid en sørgelig figur
til ret forveksling med en vantro skare.
Hvorledes de skulle være i stand til at
kende deres besøgelsestid er os en gåde.

"Siden kom Herrens ord til mig så:
»Hvad ser du, Jeremias?« Jeg svarede:
»Jeg ser en mandelgren.« Da sagde Herren:
»Du ser det rette, for jeg er årvågen* i min
vilje til at fuldbyrde den.« Jer. 1,11. *På
hebræisk, ordspil med mandelgren.

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Mvh, paw.