Host Darren Kitchen travels to ToorCamp 2012 -- an epic hacker camp in the northwest corner of the continental US, hosting some of the nation's most creative hackers, makers, movers and shakers.

In this episode, Darren interviews RFID expert Amal Graafstra about RFID implant injection at the ToorCamp Implantation Station, where attendees could receive EM4102 RFID implants in the webbed area between thumb and index finger. Plus, George Spillman and Darren get hands-on with a massive photonic laser beam built by Hackerbot Labs from extracted projector laser modules -- powerful enough to be seen for miles, requiring FAA clearance.

Source: Hak5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIl1Sple7k
See also: ToorCamp Implantation Station Q&A - https://amal.net/?p=3654

Özuygur demonstrates using the subcutaneous chip for touch-free access to his workshop door. The implant contains both RFID and NFC capabilities and will remain in his hand permanently. One of the earliest documented examples of biohacking/RFID implantation in Turkey.

Original title: Derimin Altına Çip Taktım (RFID İmplantı)
Language: Turkish

Source: Tolga Özuygur (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMODQYqF1wA

"Safe to Armed in Seconds: A Study of Epic Fails of Popular Gun Safes"

An in-depth evaluation of some of the most popular small firearm lockboxes on the market, including the GunVault Microvault MV500, the BioBox, and the LokSAF PBS-001. These safes rely on mechanical locks, biometric locks, or a combination of both -- and tend to fail miserably in the face of any dedicated attacker.

Demonstrations include picking tubular locks with commodity tools (the BioBox "basically flew open instantly"), defeating biometric sensors with a straightened paper clip from outside the safe, and other bypass techniques that render these products essentially security theater.

Deviant Ollam is a GSA certified safe and vault technician and inspector, a security auditor and penetration testing consultant with The CORE Group, and a member of the Board of Directors of the US division of TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers).

Slides: https://media.defcon.org/DEF CON 19/DEF CON 19 presentations/DEF CON 19 - Ollam-Gun-Safes.pdf

Getting a Dangerous Things xEM RFID chip subdermal implant installed. "Procedure is no more painful than any other piercing with the added feel of pressure when the needle is going in between the dermis and fascia." Implant was readable and writable right away despite some normal swelling.

Source: Virtual Void (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pk4VOhXePE

A Venmo engineer programmed the implanted chip so Warzel could pay for dinner by having a restaurant scan his hand with a smartphone, automatically deducting the cost via Venmo. He was reportedly the first person to pay for a meal this way.

Source: CNBC
Original URL: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/05/24/buzzfeed-reporter-implants-payments-chip-in-hand.html

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6OZUfmvac

Tom will tell you what he is doing and show you what possibilities there will be for mankind in the future. From sports watches and telephone apps to chips implanted in the body that will do much more than only measure your heartbeat and glucoselevel…

the step beyond Bio-Hacking.

After his training as a goldsmith Tom van Oudenaarden (1979) started in 2006 as a body piercer. Besides his piercing work, Tom is engaged in body modification with aesthetic intent. In 2013 he came in contact with bio-hacking, which has changed his life.

His interest in gadgets in combination with bio-hacking, got him started with implanting RFiD / NFC implants. According to Tom, this is the future. ‘Wearable’ technology will become ‘implantable’ technology.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioD-tFzLX8k

In his controversial talk, Jowan provides us with his vision how seamless interection between body and technology should work in the future. He believes, that by implanting microchips inside body, people can save a lot of time, money and will never loose purse or cards again. He does not want only to teach his body to speak machine, he wants his body to speak to him.
Vo svojom kontroverznom rozprávaní nám Jowan ukáže jeho víziu, ako by mala bezproblémová interakcia medzi ľudským telom a technológiami fungovať. Verí, že implementovaním mikročipov do tela ľudia ušetria čas, peniaze a už nikdy nestratia peňaženku alebo kreditné karty. Nechce len jeho telo naučiť hovoriť jazykom strojov, chce naučiť svoje telo hovoriť k nemu. Jowan is CEO at Biohax International, Swedish company that focuses on biohacking, bodyupgrading and implant development. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

A Canby man says he can open his door – even unlock his cell phone – with just the swipe of a hand. It's because he has a microchip implanted in his hand.

James Newman said he is embracing the future. Two years ago, after reading some tech articles, he was inspired and had a chip implanted in his hand. He believes radio frequency identification is the way of the future and he wants to stay on the cutting edge.

"It's a progression in technology and I wanted to be on the forefront of that," Newman told Fox 12.

Radio frequency identification, or RFID, offers many features, but it is not a new technology. In fact, you may even use it without even realizing it, if you have a microchipped pet or key fob.

Amal Graafstra, founder of Dangerous Things, supplies at-home tag kits on his company's website.

"In a personal use context, your home, your door … there's no real privacy issue. No security issue,” said Graafstra. "There's really no risk. On the biological side, the infection risk … there's less risk there than in getting an ear piercing."

Newman is one of Dangerous Things’ customers.

"Went on the website, bought the little kit, it showed up at my door," he said. "It's a syringe that comes preloaded with the chip in it. And you pinch up your skin, and you inject and pull out, try to get it between the muscle tissue there."

Aside from benefits like keyless entry, Newman said there are some social perks to having a chip.

"I'm the only one that I know that has one, it's kind of unique," he said. "A lot of people say that's weird, no way. Then after they see me do it once or twice they say OK that's kind of cool."

But Newman knows not everyone is a fan of the technology.

"When it comes to the Mark of the Beast type of thing, that seems to me a literal interpretation of biblical text and if you really read it, it says it's on the right hand or the forehead," he said. "Mine's on my left."

Newman said for now, he is taking his chances, and has no plans to remove his chip.

"I figured worst-case scenario I could take a scalpel to it and cut it out," he said.

On the Dangerous Things website, there is a full disclosure warning posted explaining that the products have not been approved by the FDA. But the company's founder says that is by choice, because they do not want their products to be classified as medical devices.

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6ealCTEMk

Biochips implanted in the body are opening the door to all kinds of potential uses. WBZ-TV's Kate Merrill reports.

This was the Sparda-Bank Berlin campaign from October 2019.

The promotional video launched around October 1, 2019 and featured Berlin drag queens Jurassica Parka and Destiny Drescher under the hashtag #seianders ("be different"). The campaign ran from October 1 through December 31, 2019.

The promotion offered two free NFC chip implants (plus accessories and implantation) to any customer who signed a Baufinanzierung (home mortgage/financing) contract during that period. The tagline was "Die einzige Finanzierung, die unter die Haut geht" ("The only financing that gets under your skin").

The video played on cliches of German suburban life and was targeted at 16-39 year-olds via social media in Berlin and the eastern German states. The campaign was created by agency Heldisch (Berlin) with media by Crossmedia (Berlin).

Sources:

• https://www.horizont.net/marketing/auftritte-des-tages/bio-hacking-und-drag-diven-so-ungewoehnlich-wirbt-die-sparda-
  bank-fuer-baufinanzierung-178040
• https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bio-Implantat-von-der-Sparda-Bank-Bei-Baufinanzierung-zwei-NFC-Chips-gratis-
  4554879.html
• https://www.wuv.de/Archiv/Warum-die-Berliner-Sparda-Bank-mit-Drag-Queens-wirbt
• https://www.queer.de/video-des-tages.php?vid=222
• https://www.fondsprofessionell.de/news/unternehmen/headline/chip-unter-der-haut-bank-wirbt-mit-gratis-implantat-um-n
  eukunden-156906/

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psz0j4b_h7c

April 30 -- In this week’s edition of Wiring the World, Bloomberg's Ramy Inocencio explores the realm of “biohacking.” A growing number of people across the U.S. and around the world are implanting microchips and other high-tech devices under their own skin to give them beyond-human abilities. Inocencio travels to Seattle to watch a needle-injection process and to witness what one pioneer can do with a wave of his hand.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0WIgU7LRcI

The Verge's Ben Popper explores the world of biohacking, where DIY cyborgs are pushing the bleeding edge of human enhancement. From basement labs to piercing shops, we investigate the "grinder" culture that hopes to merge man and machine.

Shot and edited by Sam Thonis.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7zuslna6c

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN7ZAZ7u3E4

You Are A Cyborg: The Synthesis of Man and Technology, examines the many ways in which technology is increasingly becoming a part of the human mind and body. It takes a deeper look into sensational media clips that we see everyday about “revolutionary technology,” and explores several different fields of human augmentation.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzbNkHLPO88