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> What if you get robbed? > Like everything in life, it could happen. > But, says Mr Danna, at least it is all in one place, making it easier to cancel all th

• leggomylibro 9y ago
  Yeah, I think these would be useful, but not as a single chip in your finger. You'd want a more distributed solution; a memory chip holding your key somewhere like your shoulder, a crypto chip to generate the nonce in a knee, some nodes to emit EMI along the transdermal conduits to prevent eavesdropping and to act as decoys, that sort of thing. That way, the transmitter could be in your finger, but it would be useless on its own. They would need to dismember you to get at the full solution, which would also be fragile to keep intact if anyone tried to remove while maintaining its functionality. Individual parts could also have failsafes to fry the whole system if exposed to atmosphere. And at that point, unlike chopping off a hand, it'd be so much easier for a criminal to pull a gun on their mark and walk them to an ATM. Come to think of it, a bodywide transdermal net would be pretty cool, if you included junctions for adding arbitrary modules to a common pin footprint. It would probably be difficult to install, but I dunno... people have put some crazy things in their skin, like a phone-sized single-board computer.
  • JetSpiegel 9y ago
    > They would need to dismember you to get at the full solution Great, so thieves that are already amoral enough to chop off your hand will have to kill you instead! Progress!