PugJesusTOO good for government work!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1876643/too-good-for-government-work
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There was a push for #RFID #Technology back in the 1990s. The test markets were in the Midwest, and met with unexpectedly severe blowback. The fundamentalist Christian view was that the chips were too much like the biblical ''mark of the beast'' because they were supposed to be implanted into the hand to identify employees and consumers. Believe what you want. Privacy fighters take what they can get. When I was a kid the blowback was severe enough I was still hearing about this around the 2012 end-of-world panic, so I did research to figure out what was really going on. Despite persistent low-scale marketing efforts, the company with the patent pivoted to website certificate management. 
The only thing I knew about the 
is all of this was being blamed on them. Then there was a night little-kid me ran into an honest desk jockey for them. Of course I asked him about #VeriChip. He got an expression on his face like I'd brought up the most socially-toxic aspect of his work. What he said came down to three things that stuck in my mind. 
''Yeah, there are some younger folk who think that would be a good idea, but the rest of us are trying to stop them.'' ''Whenever you want to put something in the public's bodies there's a really bad reaction.'' ''We can just accomplish all of that with biometrics anyway, but the younger employees who push for the cups want to make money selling the chips.'' I didn't know what "biometrics" meant, so I asked, and he explained how eye scans worked at the time, thumb print as #ID , and the prospect of then-in-its-infancy gait analysis. His issue wasn't my #Privacy being violated, his view was closer to, ''we already have cameras everywhere, so why put something in the body if you don't have to.'' 
#TechnologyNews #LuxuryLiving #CounterfeitGoods #Counterfeiting #Coubterfeit #LawEnforcement #TradeMark #UnfairCompetition
Former Tesla product manager wants to make luxury goods impossible to fake, starting with a chip | TechCrunch
The startup claims that it has developed a "hack-proof" chip that can't be bypassed by devices like Flipper Zero, a widely available hacking tool that can be used to tamper with wireless systems. These chips are linked with digital certificates to verify the authenticity of the products.
VTC News BotTuyên án 100 bị cáo trong vụ làm giả gần 220.000 phiếu thử nghiệm kẹo Kera, sữa Hiup, ảnh hưởng đến niềm tin người tiêu dùng. ⚖️ #GiảMạo #BảoVệNgườiTiêuDùng #TuyênÁn #Counterfeiting #ConsumerProtection
Mob History#OTD (Dec 12) in 1903, John #Bufalo of #Brooklyn is fatally shot, apparently for betraying a #counterfeiting gang.
LoC Appreciation SocietyDet. McKenna and Dr. E.A. Muret [1913?]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photo shows Detective Richard M. McKenna with Ernest Arthur Muret, who was indicted for counterfeiting and conspiracy in September 1913 and was linked to the Hans B. Schmidt murder case. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, Sept. 19, 1913)
#DetectiveMcKenna #DrMuret #ErnestArthurMuret #RichardMMcKenna #Counterfeiting #Murder #Street #Detective #Photograph #News #Photography #GlassNegatives #Urban #Conspiracy #EarlythCentury
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014694161/
#OTD (Nov 27) in 1909, Sam #Lucchino (shown) of #PittstonPA agrees to testify in court against #NewYork #Mafia leader Giuseppe #Morello and his #counterfeiting gang.
Jasmira#Hackers #Bitcoin #counterfeiting 12.7万枚比特币失窃，美国黑客奉旨黑吃黑 #美政府被曝“黑吃黑”：国家级黑客窃取巨额比特币五年后拼凑证据补手续 https://www.douyin.com/video/7572520694848785727
#OTD (Nov 22) in 1925, western #Pennsylvania racketeer Fortunato #Calabro is sentenced to four years in prison for #counterfeiting.
#OTD (Nov 21) in 1912, Anthony #Milano, wanted in #Cleveland on #counterfeiting charges, is apprehended in #Duluth MN.
#OTD (Nov 21) in 1902, Salvatore #Clemente is arrested in #Toronto, Canada, for #counterfeiting. He is wanted in the U.S. on the same charge.