Alien Technology

March 28, 2005 updated on March 31, 2005 Update on April 2, 2005 Update on April 3, 2005

This is the name of the company that will produce, for the company Gillette, "passive" chips, capable of responding to a microwave signal emitted by a detector located up to five meters away. These objects will have "the size of a grain of sand". *The size of such chips: 100 microns. *A micron represents a thousandth of a millimeter. A chip with a diameter of 100 microns is therefore a chip of ... a tenth of a millimeter, which is not ... visible to the naked eye. The information contained in the chip will be stored on 64 bits.

It's not a joke. Go to the company's website:

http://www.alientechnology.com

At the beginning of January 2005, the company Gillette announced that chips capable of emitting information would be equipped on 500 million razors. But why mark such a cheap object as a razor? Officially, it's for stock management. But it's foolish. In a supermarket, the saleswomen pass the packages through barcode readers. The store's computer is therefore informed every time a person buys a package of razors. It obviously can't take into account the razors that might be stolen. But, in terms of stock management, theft, especially for such low-value items, is not particularly important. For its orders, the store can rely on the number of razors sold, whose packages have been detected when passing through the checkout. The explanation given by Gillette is completely inconsistent.

We knew that the technology used, that of these RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices), had existed for years, particularly developed by the Auto ID Center, a laboratory located at the heart of the M.I.T., the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These researches were partly funded by Gillette, Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble. Produced in 500 million copies, these chips would cost 25 cents each, but at 10 billion units, this price would drop to 5 cents each.

Anyway, as with all computer productions, these objects have no other value than the cost of the studies undertaken to produce them and that of the machines that will assemble them, according to a technology similar to that used to create microprocessors. When the use of RFID becomes widespread around the world for an incalculable number of products that can then be tracked, as well as their owners, evaluating their price will not really make sense.

The choice of an object like a razor is not innocent. It is a personal object, like a toothbrush. The political-industrial giant is thus conducting a psychological test: will citizens accept to go home with an object that is part of their private, intimate life, which allows them to be tracked, to detect their passage wherever a system equipped with a detector is located?

It has been told to consumers that if they request it, the store can destroy the chip at the time of checkout. But it is expected that people will quickly lose this reflex. And this is very likely what will happen.

That's the first stage. We are supposed to implant chips in objects that only return the equivalent of a barcode signal to the detector. The technology of second-generation chips is already fully operational. These are chips with RAM, "writable". When humans will be equipped with "writable" chips (which, by the way, cannot be accessed by anyone: a password will be required to access the information they hold), they will carry information about their identity, especially their nationality, their background, their criminal record, the trips they have made, anything at all. You have witnessed the implosion of computer memories. You have seen increasingly large amounts of data stored on supports whose size had ... a tendency to decrease! Unbeknownst to people, their razors will be equipped with rewritable chips that can be interrogated when entering banks, airports. A razor is an object with which one travels. This choice is anything but innocent.

After that, it will be enough to promote the security aspect:

*- If you have nothing to hide, where is the problem? *

Before proceeding to intra-corporeal implantation, you can imagine that if you can fit a chip of a tenth of a millimeter in the handle of a razor, you can do the same in a comb, a hairbrush, a pair of glasses, a piece of jewelry, a ... dental filling, and obviously in your identity documents. Identity cards with memory, which when interrogated, will indicate the thousands of places you have passed through, with the dates and times, which will also be recorded. Your "traceability" will become total.

- Where is the problem, if you have nothing to hide? wrote a reader to me.

The technological threshold has long been exceeded. It doesn't take long to imagine the uses that can be made of such systems, which are also as discreet and unobtrusive. Remember the phrase of the actress in the video praising the merits of the Verichip chip:

*- It leaves no scar, no trace. *

What I have been trying to say for weeks is that this rice grain-sized chip is an object of total ruggedness. It is really "the hand-soldered transistor" compared to microprocessor technology. In the Verichip object, the components are visible to the naked eye. Could you identify the components of a microprocessor in the same way? Of course not.

You have seen that these chips from Alien Technology measure a tenth of a millimeter. It is therefore perfectly possible to have them ingested by putting them in a salt shaker or in a packet of powdered sugar. It is even possible to arrange for such chips to be configured to settle somewhere in your body.

Read these lines again. It is completely feasible.

Our society is completely changing with the emergence of these new technologies. One may think "security", imagine that it will no longer be possible for anyone to rob a bank or commit an attack. But it will go much further than that. The climate of attacks is perfectly playing the game of those who want to mark people like livestock, like the "mark of the beast". All of this is on the way, and in the end you can't do anything about it anymore. The whole planet is upside down. The leaders are completely out of control. We have reached the stage, as Ziegler says in his book " The Empire of Shame ", our last defense against collective madness would be what he calls:

the insurrection of consciences

One can always dream...

When will people finally understand that Americans have the technology to implant a rewritable chip of a tenth of a millimeter in the brain of a human being, after having previously anesthetized it with a microwave gun, perfectly developed, simply by making a hole in its skull with a drill, leaving a tiny trace on its scalp that will heal in a few days and leave no trace. The chip itself would not even be detectable on a scan, due to its size. Anyone claiming to have been treated this way would be considered a ... madman. This technology will be exportable worldwide. The implant will be impossible to extract and will not signal its presence in any way. A kind of "dormant death". Not only will this system constitute a marking of human beings, worse than a tattoo (Auschwitz) or a brand (Milady), but it will be possible, day by day, to record in the rewritable memory of this chip "all the useful information". Later, this chip will be equipped with a nano GPS, allowing to locate the person. This chip will also serve as an antenna regarding microwave emissions covering vast regions, focused using mirrors made of ionized gas and produced by stations of the type HAARP (whose hidden purpose is this). It is the "Zorglonde" of Franquin, become reality. One can make people apathetic, without will, or hyper-aggressive. One can deliver them subliminal sound messages influencing their behavior. One can evoke in them hallucinations that make them doubt their sanity. Implanted in other places, these chips will cause the subjects unbearable pain, or ... debilitating headaches, assimilated to an "odd illness". It is "crowd control". One can kill them from a distance by using their chip to create an irreversible damage inside their brain, which will be assimilated to a "cerebral hemorrhage". By locating other implants near motor centers, one can cause them incoherent movements, simulate neurological diseases. One can prohibit entire regions, places, by causing "undesirable" individuals painful reactions that become quickly unbearable if they violate the prohibition that has been imposed on the "category of people" they have been classified into.

Americans like to make subtle hints. It is also well known that the best way to hide something is to put it in plain sight. Crimes that remain unpunished are those so atrocious that one cannot even imagine them or those where the killer manages to take on the role of the victim. Criminals who slip through the net are those who manage to pose as saviors of humanity. You remember that scientists called their first atomic bomb, which exploded at Alamogordo, "Trinity" (Trinity). They have a certain taste for blasphemy. An American H-bomb received the code name "The Kaaba". And at the time, the Muslim was not yet the number one enemy.

Who said one day that Americans could have benefited from the technological help of an extraterrestrial race?

When you know them well, you can say that if it were true, they would take pride in naming the company developing this kind of gadget

Alien Technology

I write all this, but how many will take these lines seriously? When I wrote my first book "Children of the Devil", in 1985, commissioned by Editions Orban, who recoiled horrified after reading the manuscript, then published ten years later by Editions Albin Michel, I had written a preface telling the story of Cassandra, this Trojan woman to whom Apollo had given the power to predict the future without being believed.

**American consumer associations seem to have reacted quite strongly and effectively against this Gillette project of equipping its razors with RFID by brandishing the threat of a boycott. Apparently, the company has put its project on hold. But don't be mistaken, this would only be a postponement. They simply wanted to do a bit too much for a beginning. **

Profiting from the opportunity, let's provide some technical clarifications, requested by readers. How can systems emitting with such weak power avoid interference?

The answer is "thanks to mathematics". The signals emitted by modern devices are digital, "bits", like the elementary messages handled by our computers. These signals are grouped into packets of 8, 16, 32 bits (or digits), etc...

These packets of digits are called "words". My first Apple II computer worked with "eight-bit words"

Here is an eight-bit word:

10110100

Converted into binary reading, this sequence can code numbers from 0 to 255, that is, with this writing "you can count from zero to two hundred fifty-five". Using sixteen-bit words, you can count from 0 to 65535

Digital counting is done in "powers of 2". People are so used now to handling their computers "without opening the hood" that they don't even know what's going on inside. The first radios emitted signals amplitude-modulated. A first improvement consisted in transporting the musical signal using another code: frequency modulation. This was less sensitive to interference. The transition to digital signals allowed a new leap.

Without digital coding, the transmission of signals by electromagnetic waves would be impossible without a significant signal-to-noise ratio. Mobile phones have a standard power of 2 watts. With RFID, we will fall on powers a hundred times weaker. How can one imagine that such weak signals are not disturbed by anything.

Imagine that a detector "interrogates" an RFID by sending it a coded signal, otherwise digital. It will wait for its response, which will come to it in the form of a series of "digits". Imagine, for simplicity, that the chip emits signals composed of sixteen-bit words, sixteen digits, for example:

0110101101010010

If this were converted into binary, it would mean that the chip could respond with a number between:

0000000000000000

and

1111111111111111

That is, between 0 and 65535.

Then come the mathematicians. This information-bearing number will be followed by a three-digit code. With two digits, a number between

000 which is zero

and 111, which is seven, in binary.

Signal processing specialists have invented an "algorithm" that involves the sixteen digits of the word and necessarily gives a result between zero and seven. This second number then serves as the identifier of the word.

Background noise can disturb the "word" and its identifier. The slightest disturbance affecting the word and its identifier will mean that the consistency test gives a negative result. Applying the algorithm to the bits of the word will not give the three digits of the identifier. The mathematicians have designed their algorithm in such a way that it is practically impossible for the word and the identifier to be disturbed in such a way that the validation test is positive.

If the validation test is negative, the response will be rejected by the receiver, which will question the chip again and receive a new response. This question-and-answer game can be performed in a very short time, many times. There comes a probability calculation. If the response has successfully passed a certain number of tests performed in the digital receiver, then the response is recorded not as having absolute reliability but as having a probability of reliability so high that one can consider that the error becomes very unlikely.

This signal extraction system by validation is so effective that when you look at the mix of signal plus noise on an oscilloscope, it is impossible to detect the presence of the first. On the screen, you only see "noise". This is why electronic systems based on exchanges of digitally coded signals can function with very low signal-to-noise ratios.

I have mentioned a response or message consisting of a single 16-bit word. But it is evident that this technique has no limits. With "words" we make "sentences" etc...

In my comic strip "What Do Robots Dream Of", there is a whole part evoking this task of signal detection, buried in noise. You will find it on the CD-ROM [Lanturlu

[ To hear one's own neuronal noise, it is necessary to stay long enough in a soundproof room or, as we did when we were students, in the catacombs of Paris, 30 meters underground. We would lie on the floor. It took about twenty minutes to enter subception (the equivalent, for hearing, of twilight vision). As soon as we moved a limb, the joints emitted almost alarming cracks. Digestion represented an indescribable gurgle and, of course, each person heard their heart beating like knocks on a door. Behind all these bodily noises, the chittering of hearing, equivalent to the breath of an old amplifier. But to access this, you need a very good soundproof room and the catacombs' galleries are excellent. We used a very discreet entrance located in one of the basements on the Rue Claude Bernard. I don't remember the number.]

In vision, we don't detail all the words and all the letters. We just have brief flashes on words, or even entire sentences and we reconstruct "the most probable word", "the most probable sentence" very quickly. The same goes for sounds. This allows us to speak and be understood next to a machine that, in decibels, emits more than our vocal cords. Of course, these human abilities have their limits. But by moving to digital coding, our modern devices can work with a very low signal/noise level.

This is a first answer to the questions asked.

The second concerns protection against these RFID systems. It is less obvious than it seems. To protect against electromagnetic waves, the standard system is the "Faraday cage". But the effectiveness of this protection decreases when the frequencies increase. Mobile phones emit at 900 megahertz, almost a gigahertz. If the frequency were lower, the body of a car would become an insurmountable obstacle. The standard power of mobile phones is 2 watts. The range depends on the obstacles between the emission and the reception. You can see that their ease of use is constantly increasing, just because of the multiplication of relay systems and their "coverage" over a given region.

RFID will also work at high frequency. For information, communications with satellites are carried out on frequencies close to 12 gigahertz, more than ten times the frequency of the mobile phone. You will find more information on frequencies on a French website mentioned a bit further on.

Do not believe that it will be easy to create a screen between these RFID and a questioning or writing system. One may remember this scene where Schwarzenegger, in the movie Total Recall, wraps his head with a wet towel to "attenuate the signal". One might imagine that to isolate a chip located in a hand, it would be enough to wrap it in a thin sheet of metal. No. The higher the communication frequency, the more problematic the protection becomes.

When child kidnappers are convinced that the children are carrying a "chip", they will not hesitate.

I have also heard that it was being considered to equip identity documents and passports with a chip. This chip could then be easily and cheaply located by people wanting to obtain ... passports, which tourists will carry with them. This technique will not have ... only advantages.

In passive mode, the RFID receives energy from the system that interrogates it, stores it in a micro-capacitor, and then uses it to retransmit. In principle, the length of the antennas is related to the wavelength of the "carrier" that carries the signal. In rice grain chips, the different components are shown, including an object called "antenna". But if this antenna is coupled with an inductor, it can be shortened. This is the system used in microchips. This is why an object of a tenth of a millimeter can communicate with the outside.

People are thinking everywhere about ways to fight against the excesses and dangers of "chips". One could say that the first danger concerns the use. If objects can be identified with chips, all the saleswomen in supermarkets will disappear. Anyway, today they just handle the objects by passing them in front of a barcode reader. With RFID, the shopping cart will be automatically scanned.

- The customer enters a booth - The system scans his shopping cart (or his pockets!) - It displays the descriptions of the objects the buyer has gathered in his shopping cart, with unit prices and the total amount. - Question: "Do you confirm? If yes, put your credit card in the slot". - In case of acceptance, the exit door of the booth will open. Otherwise, the entrance door will open with different messages: "Sorry, your account is not funded", etc....

Not only will the saleswomen disappear, but also the warehouse workers and the people who will control the stocks. At night, robots will replace the objects that have been misplaced, restock the shelves, etc.

In fact, in this modern world that is being built, the ultimate step would be to replace consumers with robots (which they are already half of). In this ultimate step, human beings would no longer be necessary to run the economy. But that's just a joke. The big industry knows that there are immense markets made up of people eager to consume: for example the ... Chinese.

Computing and robotics have completely transformed the job market. There, it is the distribution market that will again change, with the human implications that one can imagine. But beyond this "stock management" and "security" aspect, there are all the excesses one can imagine, with this "traceability" of individuals through the objects they will buy, which may not be disabled when they leave the store or the service, the bank. Will human beings be able to tolerate that the world of Big Brother invades their daily lives? Good question.

As one of my readers said a few weeks ago, "but if you have nothing to hide?"

It is clear that the technology of "chipping" has been fully operational for a long time. "Traceability of objects, consumer goods, animals and ... humans". Traceability of ... everything, in fact. Given the size of the chips, there will be no limits.

Will human beings ever have the possibility to organize themselves to fight against this invasion? We have seen that in the United States, consumers have quickly reacted to Gillette's project of implanting chips in its razors and the manufacturer has complied immediately. The "stock management" argument convinced no one. In the USA, people are very concerned about individual freedoms (even though they have already lost much more than they can imagine). There are consumer associations capable of effectively countering an industry, by boycott, even partial. In commerce, a 10% drop in turnover is a catastrophe. Gillette quickly took this threat seriously. In the end, between two razor brands, one can choose the one without a chip, and then, goodbye to the turnover drop.

Some might say, "merchants may equip the objects they produce without informing the consumers". Yes, but very quickly the associations will be equipped with RFID detectors and if an object is equipped and the manufacturer has hidden it, immediate boycott, loss of turnover.

Suppose the RFID supporters win this part. A resistance can be organized. These chips can be destroyed with a well-adjusted high-frequency pulse. They are fragile objects. Banknotes have already been planned to be equipped with tiny RFID and maybe some are already. One can imagine that these RFID could be used to track stolen bills. Simple remark: put any 10, 20 or 50 euro bill in your microwave oven and send the power. You will see the result immediately, with your own eyes (don't worry, your bill will remain usable). You just need to keep an eye on the bill while looking through the window.

Without going as far as burning the bills, a well-adjusted power and exposure time can be sufficient to damage the bills' chips enough to make them unusable. But maybe a law will pass that considers the act of neutralizing the RFID of a bill as "forgery"? Maybe stores will receive instructions not to accept bills without "response" or maybe they will prefer not to accept them, considering that the presence of a correct response is a guarantee that the bill is authentic?

If the "chip war" begins, opponents to this "movement for more traceability" can create considerable chaos by attacking these chips remotely with electromagnetic waves. Within electronic devices, one can imagine that these chips could be the most sensitive elements. "Anti-chip" commandos could then attack "chipped" objects at all stages of distribution. Unless the trucks delivering the goods are equipped like ... Faraday cages, one can imagine a van driving next to a truck delivering objects, or boxes equipped with microchips, some of which could be destroyed in a fraction of a second, the van emitting a strong electromagnetic pulse. By creating a lack of reliability in the distribution, these "eco-terrorists" could weaken the entire distribution chain by damaging not the objects but ... their marking systems. What would happen if when you pass through a booth with your shopping cart full of consumer goods, the detectors only get responses from a part of the objects? ! Would you have to ... reintroduce saleswomen who would perform the checks? .....

As an indication, there is a "hybrid" system in some ATTAC stores in Lyon. Pressured customers can have their own barcode reader, which they take at the entrance. They scan the labels themselves. A salesperson is then there to visually check if the contents of your shopping cart roughly match what your individual barcode reader, which you hand to them, indicates. The system is on trial and the criterion is then the waiting time in the lines. You pass faster when you have used your own barcode reader.

Bill Gates has had in his drawers for years a project of "chipping" computers with the " Fritz chip " which some may have already heard about. It is an spy, among other things, which checks if the users of a machine have paid for the software they use and, in case of a negative response, could render it inoperable. To perform these checks, "Fritz" would use your Internet line. This would amount to admitting that the machine you are using has a "resident virus" whose function would be to spy on you permanently.

Would people tolerate being the object of such control?

In some circles of the computer world, resistance is already organizing. There is the movement for "free software." One can expect that, someday, movements for "free hardware" will develop (which already exist), for example for the production of components and microprocessors free of spy chips. If this movement expands, manufacturers of machines equipped with spies, even if the offered performances are more attractive, could find themselves in trouble.

It is quite clear that Big Brother is extending his shadow over the entire planet. Some are aware of this. For now, they are few. But in the USA, people react faster than we do (same as they are more easily fooled than Europeans in some ways). This war of information, freedom, traceability, security, individual marking, with all possible and imaginable tricks, all measures and countermeasures, will be the silent war of the immediately upcoming years.

Watch this space. ---

April 2, 2005: Reader's letter, M.M.:

Hello Mr. Petit

Perhaps Gillette has put its project of implanting RFID chips in its razors on hold, but in France, the Casino group has decided to integrate them into its clothes....

"RFID solutions from Checkpoint chosen by Casino Group on March 25, 2005. The agreement concerns several million radio frequency (RF) trackers that will be integrated at the manufacturing site of the products. These invisible EAS trackers will be applied at the source, for the next collection of textile articles from the Casino Group's distributor brand "Tout simplement!" which will be in stores from September 2005.

To integrate the barcode, the price and the anti-theft tracker (EAS) upstream of the supply chain, Checkpoint Systems has developed CheckNet, a global real-time product labeling and protection network. The CheckNet network covers Asia, the Middle East, Maghreb and Eastern Europe.

CheckNet allows retailers to order their labels via the Internet directly from Checkpoint Systems, which prints and delivers them to the manufacturer. The manufacturer integrates them into the products before shipping them to the warehouses. The RF tracker will be integrated discreetly. Therefore, the textile article will include at the source all the variable labels and data, as well as a radio frequency element, which will be identified and deactivated when passing through the checkout ( ? ... ). If the article has not been paid for, the RF tracker will trigger a signal when passing through the 3G digital antennas, when leaving the store.

Source: http://www.itrmanager.com/article.php?oid=37891

April 3, 2005. A French website under construction, reported by a reader, gives an idea of the development of RFID in France.

http://www.poletracabilite.com/fr/quisommesnous/fiche.cfm?presentationId=2

Note that the general theme is "traceability." Implantable chips in the body are shown. It is specified that they have already been used for traceability of livestock. ---

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