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DATE: Thursday - August 17, 2017
HOST: George Noory
GUESTS: Liz McIntyre, Craig Bauer
In the first half, consumer privacy expert, and co-author of the bestseller
Spychips with Katherine Albrecht, Liz McIntyre, discussed the recent news of
human chipping and the latest in the world of RFID and electronic privacy. About
half of the employees of a Wisconsin company, Three Square Market, agreed to
have an RFID microchip installed in their hand at a "party" event held earlier
this month. The chip allows employees to pay for items by swiping their hand.
McIntyre believes the company had an ulterior motive in pushing this technology,
as their business involves marketing vending and break room snack machines, and
the chip solution could simplify payments, and perhaps increase sales.
Even overlooking privacy concerns (Three Square says the chip they're using is
encrypted, and doesn't contain GPS tracking), McIntyre expressed concerns about
the medical safety of such devices, citing the danger of the chip migrating to a
different area of the body, and how cancers have developed in pets near where
their tracking chips were installed. Down the road, there could be problems with
hackers stealing identities via embedded chips, as well as issues with the
reprogramming of chips once they're implanted. The technology is being pushed by
marketers, wanting to track people's movements and interests, and has the
potential to be misused by the government, she added. We need a law, McIntyre
argued, to protect people from forcible chipping, such as by companies that
insist their employees comply with the request (Wisconsin actually has such a
law already in place).
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Professor Craig Bauer was the 2011-2012 Scholar-in-Residence at the National
Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History. In the latter half, he
shared the fascinating stories of how cryptology has been used from the ancients
up to the digital era. Ciphers are codes used to hide or disguise messages or
secrets (view related images), and centuries ago, people could use regular
handwriting as most of the world was illiterate, he noted. These codes, which
may contain letters and numbers jumbled in specific ways, can be used by spies
or terrorists, industrialists who want to protect business secrets, as well as
in religious contexts.
Ciphers date all the way back to ancient Egypt-- there are "meaningless"
hieroglyphics on many sarcophagi, which Bauer suspects are actually codes of
statements people were trying to obscure. He also talked about the mysterious
15th century Voynich manuscript, which has defied code breakers over the
centuries. One of the most significant uses of cryptology was the Nazi's Enigma
Machine, he recounted, and when a British team that included mathematician Alan
Turing cracked the code, it turned the tide against the Germans in WWII.
News segment guests: Charles R. Smith, Peter Davenport
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WEBSITE(S):
startpage.com
depts.ycp.edu/~cbauer
BOOK(S):
Spychips
Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers
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