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RFID malware is a Pandora's box that has been gathering dust in the corner

Pet and Animal ID using “RFID” Chip devices, is “not” the answer



Most people "think" RFID microchips are to find their lost puppy, cat, or other animal and return it to the owner; wouldn't that be "noble." When in fact, the government…

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our government, is attempting to use this microchip technology, to rapidly track, locate and find you dogs, pets, and farm animals on your private property called a premise, and potentially assassinate (cull) your dogs, cats, cows, hogs, goats, all of them, in the name of “Disease Prevention and Protection” should this ever become necessary to conduct a “culling” on your premises in the future by our government in a designated disease crisis or disaster involving your premises. There is "no" safe place on this Earth now, where you and your dogs, pets, and animals can "run and hide" from Animal Identification coming to you soon in human application form. image They will call it “Mark of the Beast” technology. AKA: RFID Implanted Microchips.

RFID tags vulnerable to viruses

Attacks could soon come in the form of a SQL injection or a buffer overflow attack. Three computer science researchers are warning that viruses embedded in radio tags used to identify and track goods are right around the corner, a danger that so far has been overlooked by the industry's high interest in the technology. No viruses targeting radio frequency identification (RFID) technology have been released live yet, according to the researchers at “Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam” in the Netherlands. But RFID microchip tags have several characteristics that could be engineered to exploit vulnerabilities in middleware and back-end databases, these University researchers wrote in a paper presented at a conference in Pisa, Italy in the past. "RFID malware is a Pandora's box that has been gathering dust in the corner of our 'smart' warehouses and home," their research paper stated. The attacks can come in the form of a SQL injection or a buffer overflow attack even though the tags themselves may only store a small bit of information, the paper said. For demonstration purposes, the researchers created a proof-of-concept, self-replicating RFID virus. Research has documented that a master's student at their university, needed only four hours to write a virus small enough to fit on a RFID tag, something previously thought unworkable stated S. Tanenbaum, a professor at “Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.” RFID tags can contain as little as 114 bytes of memory, he said. Tanenbaum expects vendors to be angry about the publishing of the code. Vendors have dismissed the possibility of RFID viruses, saying that the amount of memory in the tags is too small, he said. But the researchers did take precautions to ensure RFID viruses won't immediately circulate. They wrote their own middleware that mimicked traits of products on the market, said Melanie R. Rieback, one of the paper's authors. "It's not like we are providing a cookbook for basically wannabe hackers to hack real RFID systems," Rieback said. "It was actually quite interesting to see that some of the databases were susceptible to some kinds of attacks," Rieback said. "Other ones actually had natural protection mechanisms built in that made them more resistant." The purpose of the exercise, the authors wrote, is to encourage RFID middleware designers to be more careful when writing code. Back-end middleware can contain millions of lines of source code, and if software faults number between six and 16 per 1,000 lines of code, the programs are likely to have much vulnerability, the paper said. RFID microchip tags are increasingly being used in a variety of industries to track items and give a real-time view of inventories. The tags contain data on a particular object or, in some cases, embedded in animals, and that data is typically stored in a database. Companies can save money by using the tags to keep closer tabs on their property. However, this "pervasive computing utopia has its dark side," the authors wrote. RFID chip systems may be attractive to criminals since the data contained on them may have a financial or personal nature, such as information stored on digital passports. In addition to causing damage to computer systems, RFID malware may have an effect on real-world objects, the paper said. For example, airports are considering using RFID tags to track baggage. But Tanenbaum warned that this application could pose a large problem if an RFID tag is read and delivers a much larger set of data in return. A false tag on a piece of baggage could exploit a buffer overflow to deliver a virus to the RFID middleware. Once the virus code is on the server, it could infect the databases and corrupt subsequent tags or install back doors -- small programs that allow for the extrication of data over the Internet, Tanenbaum said. "You can hide baggage," Tanenbaum said. "You can reroute baggage to the wrong place -- all kinds of mischief. That's I think a very, very serious thing that even has national security implications."

Just How Close Are We To The Mark Of The Beast?

ONE CANNOT MARKET OR SELL A PRODUCT UNLESS IT HAS THE “MARK.” Revelation 13:17 reads remarkably and frightfully similar, "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark . . .” 2,000 years ago the Bible foretold of these events, and they're being fulfilled right down to the line! In 1935, the Social Security program was enacted as a simple retirement system to be funded by payroll contributions. But in 1974, the Senate Finance committee voted to issue a Social Security card to every child entering the first grade. Time magazine of March 13, 1972, commenting on the action said (p.16) "Such a system would further enable the Government to amass information on citizens and STORE IT IN A CENTRAL COMPUTER UNDER A SINGLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER." Then in 1989, a law was passed that every child, over two-years of age, must have a Social Security number to qualify as a dependent on tax returns. Now a program has been implemented, that when the baby is born, the hospital will automatically apply for the social security number! The name of the program - ENUMERATION AT BIRTH! To Enumerate means to "ASSIGN A NUMBER!" The government is establishing a UNIVERSAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER! Also in 1974, a strange, new mark began appearing on products- UPC barcode. Virtually every product is now marked with the familiar UPC barcode. Interestingly enough, did you know that there are three embedded numbers on every UPC barcode? What are the three hidden numbers? Wouldn't you know- 666! All of the marks or bars are associated with numbers at the bottom, except the marks at the first, middle, and end. The marks for the number "6" are "||". And these marks are the same marks at the first, in the middle and at the end of every barcode! The number "666" is hidden in every UPC bar code! Something else has mysterious appeared. In the last few years, some UPC codes have appeared with additional boxes underneath the bar code. Beside the boxes are 2 letters; the letter F and the letter H! Could they stand for forehead or hand? One party moving rapidly in bar-code identification is the Federal Government. Automatic I.D. News, April 1991, says, (p.46) "Everything that is being used in the military system has been or will be marked with a bar code. . . EVEN DOWN TO INDIVIDUAL SOLDIERS. . . EVERYONE GETS A BAR CODE." At least 15 high schools in New York City have participated in a pilot program using bar-coded identification and scanners to "keep careful tabs on the students". Esquire magazine of March 1990, (p.89) asked the obvious question, "....will we all be tagged in the end?" In 1991, while most Americans were preoccupied in the Gulf War, the House "silently" passed, a little-known bill, called The Federal Telecommunication System 2000 (FTS 2000). At a cost of $25 billion, it is the single largest money appropriation in U.S. history. FTS 2000 requires by law, all computer and phone lines, connected via high-tech computer network. According to a published study of FTS 2000, by Craig Hulet, of KC & Associates, "The system is QUITE REAL; . . . THERE IS NO QUESTION that once it is in place, one will 'neither buy nor sell' without being very much a part of the system." The technology behind such a biochip implant is fairly uncomplicated and with a little refinement, could be used in a variety of HUMAN applications. Conceivably, a number could be assigned at birth and follow that person throughout life. Most likely, it would be implanted on the back of the RIGHT or LEFT HAND so that it would be easy to scan at stores. You simply scan your hand to automatically debit your banking account. The biochip implant could also be used as a universal type of identification card that would replace all credit cards, passports and that sort of thing. It could also become our medical care ID chip. It could even replace house and car keys someday. But don't look for U.S. government officials to be quite so bold -- at least not yet. Americans are still somewhat skeptical about such Big Brother "helps". To promote national identification as a real priority, there must be the perception of need some crisis in need of solving. There are politicians whom agree that the time has come for a national identity card, perhaps including biometric data. Such a card is already in use by the federal government. It's called, interestingly, MARC -- for Multi-Technology Automated Reader Card, and all armed services personnel are familiar with it.

A national ID database represents the slipperiest of all civil liberty slopes.

A system employing tens of thousands of government clerks and administrators and costing tens of billions of dollars to build and operate would surely not remain limited to catching illegal nannies. Why not use it, at virtually no additional cost, to track convicted child molesters as well? Who would dare object? Why not then also track the movements of convicted murderers. And rapists. And drug dealers and felons in general. And fathers behind in child support. And tax-evaders. And 'political extremists.' Members of 'religious cults.' Drug addicts. AIDS carriers. Gun owners. With each turn of the political cycle, left and right would add their favorite batch of social enemies to the surveillance list. The Bible tells us that in the future a one-world system of government will require every person to receive a "mark" in their right hand or in their foreheads. Without this "mark of the beast," no one will be permitted to buy or sell. Putting in place such a system would not have been possible without technological breakthroughs in computers and biometrics. Is there any doubt that we are well on our way to a Big Brother-style global dictatorship? Could this RFID biochip itself be the physical mark of the beast?

How many times has each of you, blamed God, for all your problems?

Like blaming God for the loss of your dog(s), cat(s), pet(s) or animals, or for the coming mandatory animal and human RFID chip implants, mandatory animal taxation, care, and control animal ordinances and animal laws, mandatory animal ID, and soon for the "Mark of the Beast." A man distraught by all the pain and suffering he saw all around him broke down and banged his fists into the dirt. His head turns upward and he yells at God, saying; "Look at this mess. Look at all this pain and suffering. Look at all this killing and hate. God. Oh God! WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING, Why don't you save us??!!" And God spoke to him and said "I did. I sent you." Be Positive and Constructive, maintain your faith, do your research, and, Do Something! Before your have lost your pet and your life from the “Mark of the Beast.”


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Dean A. Ayers is a freelance Reporter


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