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Posted on 08/26/2016 1:40:02 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
A Washington-based “biohacker” has created the first implant-activated “smart gun.” A biohacker is a person who experiments with body implants including magnets and in this case, RFID keys. Smart guns use these keys to ensure that only authorized users can shoot them.
The biohacker, Amal Graafstra, has successfully implanted an RFID tag in his hand that serves as a radio-activated safety when it’s in range of his smart gun. It’s a proof-of-concept system to illustrate that it is indeed possible. Graafstra founded and runs his business, Dangerous Things, from home.
Current RFID-based smart gun technology uses wearable tags, such as a ring or bracelet. These pose a problem: because they’re wearable, they can be lost. By implanting the tag in his hand Graafstra has side-stepped the problem entirely.
That said, it’s not as though he isn’t putting new problems on the table. Biohacking, or DIY biology, like smart guns, is also controversial. The hobby exists outside — or at least on the fringe — of medicine and biology. It’s the Internet of Things of body modification.
Even if the system was developed commercially by professionals with full support of the medical and firearms communities — which seems unlikely today — it’ll still be a tough sell.
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All politicians who support this must be first to test by their guards use “smart” guns
Implant huh? Maybe they could expand this chip to replace bank cards, point of sale receivers. Require all guns to be smart, then make everybody apply to the gov’t for a firearms chip implant, which the gov’t could turn off at will. Ain’t technology grand?
or a simple rfid jammer.
stupid is as stupid does.
“That Can Never be Dropped”
Low tech solution is “don’t let go”. Medium tech would be to glue it to you hand, but KISS.
If I can’t pass off my gun to my wife, gf or buddy, or pick up theirs, then it’s not a gun I want with me or with them.
Gun fights aren’t conducted on movie sets with fixed scripts.
Will the “smart” gun work, after it’s spent thirty years stuffed under a bed in a shoebox, without maintenance?
How many batteries will last 30 years on the shelf?
Just what everyone wants.
An electronic firearm proposed by a hacker.
Exactly, such a device adds an unacceptable layer of risk. The consequence could be loss of innocent life.
This technology is a solution desperately seeking a problem. The root cause of the implied problem has nothing to do with safe/law abiding gun owners.
How about this alternative: Put RFID on criminals and track them instead. Set up a device to alert you if someone having the device is within 100’ of your door. Imagine getting an alarm at 2:30 a.m. that a criminal is on your property? You’d have an opportunity to react.
But hey, I’m making the issue criminals instead of law abiding citizens. I’m just crazy like that...
I think that bodyguards for politicians should quickly adopt this new technology to prove that it improves safety.
Of course, if said politician was assassinated by someone using a jammer to prevent the bodyguards from protecting the “package”.....that would be very sad.
“They require that the guns tested unlock 2,000 times and the gun fire 10,000 times with zero electronics malfunctions.”
Most commercial devices are cycled 100k+ times, critical life-safety devices have to be environmentally tested at the same time being cycled more than 250k times.
I think they should consult a reliability engineer and then they would understand how insurmountable their grand idea is.
Mosin M-38 carbine or the M-44 with the spiffy folding bayonet. Simple, rugged, goes bang 99.999% of the time. Doubt any chip could be made to work with it.
Gee, I wonder if our honest feral gov’t would put anything else in that RFID chip?
for cold weather and reliability, they will need lithium batteries that aren’t allowed on aircraft per the FAA
That’s a hurdle!
I’ve got a finger for these brainiacs right here.
Let no man rich or poor, free or bond fire a gun lest he has the mark or the number of the beast in his hand...
No gun that is for self defense should left like that.
Mark of the beast
duct tape to hand. there ya go.
What’s the range on the chip, inches, feet? If the bad guy gets the gun and shoves the barrel in your gut and pulls the trigger, will it go off?
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