# Software on RFID chips? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 7, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-on-rfid-chips/759280 "2016-07-07T01:53:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-on-rfid-chips/759280/21 "2016-07-09T22:12:09Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > Call me paranoid: > A few months ago I posited the introduction of “RFID” chip containing a “Social Security Number” being implanted in a newborn before the skull plates fused. > So far, so good, right? > > Now, just as Dentists do not use Novocaine, the refrigerant in your A/C is not Freon and a dozen of other names-which-stick: > Could a nefarious Government turn that “RFID” chip into a way to introduce programming - which just might act as a sedative to placate a population, or do any of a number of other things. > > General Gist: Once people get used to having their newborns implanted, what all could be added to the “RFID Chip containing SSN”? > [@usedtobe](#): > > Aw com’on… > > I want to know that Big Brother WILL find a way to control our thoughts and actions. > > Just as “Company Towns” didn’t need to worry about any trouble makers stirring up the locals, I want to be assured that the modern technologies will work to placate simply everyone just as the Company Store controlled the finances of the townsfolk. > [@wevets](#): > > I think you’re looking for [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=795698), **usedtobe**. This one’s about whether it’s possible to download software onto RFID chips or smart cards. Or maybe you’re looking for this: > **[The President's Analyst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Analyst)** > > The President's Analyst is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Ted Flicker and starring James Coburn. The film has elements of political satire and science fiction, including themes concerning modern ethics and privacy, specifically the intrusion of the telecommunications alliance, working with the U.S. government, into citizens' private lives. The film was released theatrically on December 21, 1967, and was initially not a commercial success. However, it was rev... It’s a movie released in 1967. Very funny, IIRC, but I was just a little kid watching along with my parents on TV, prob in the 70’s. > [@](#): > > Kropotkin arranges a pickup with his trusted CEA colleague Don Masters, but \*\*Schaefer is kidnapped again — this time by TPC (The Phone Company), \*\*a far more insidious organization than the FBR or KGB, which has been observing him throughout the film. > > Taken to TPC’s headquarters in New Jersey, he is introduced to the head of TPC (Pat Harrington, Jr.), who wants Dr. Schaefer’s help in carrying out their plan. **TPC has developed a “modern electronic miracle”, the Cerebrum Communicator (CC), a microelectronic device that can communicate wirelessly with any other CC in the world.** Once implanted in the brain, the user need only think of the number of the person they wish to reach, and are instantly connected, thus eliminating the need for The Phone Company’s massive and expensive-to-maintain wired infrastructure. > > For this to work, every human being will be assigned a number instead of a name, and the CC prenatally implanted. Dr. Schaefer is “requested” to assist TPC by blackmailing the President into pushing through the required legislation. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-on-rfid-chips/759280/22 "2016-07-10T02:10:50Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > But I think you were talking about something that’s a bit more ‘mind control’. I don’t think we really know how to do that properly and effectively by artifical means right now, even with whole rooms full of equipment. Just in case though, you could wear a tinfoil hat. Don’t wear a tinfoil hat! [That’s just what They want!](http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-on-rfid-chips/759280.md?page=1)