The real stupidity of this, aside from the horrible privacy implications, is the belief that somehow interacting with this device is proving you're human, as th

The real stupidity of this, aside from the horrible privacy implications, is the belief that somehow interacting with this device is proving you're human, as the article describes it. Actually, the human operating the device has decided that you are a human. If that person is verifying your ID, they're probably doing so with regular old real-world documents. What the device is sending upline is nothing more than a number. That number can be used to identify you (with or without a password) and can and will also be used in all the other (bad) ways that identifying information is used. There is nothing special about capturing it with an orb or scanning your eyeballs. That's techno-mysticism, of which Sam is a big fan.