Having worked for a few years in the small world of cryptography and digital security, I found this news in the FT quite disturbing. Like in a sci-fi worse nightmare, we might be asked one day to have a chip implanted in our body. While this article mentions the device could be implanted as a corporate access security requirement, I am much more worried by a country requiring this to pass the border – the US for instance? Why would I say that…

Ok, ok, on that biometric passport story, it’s French administration’s fault on implementing. But the US can really be a pain in the butt to enter (I should maybe not say that if I want to go smoothly through customs next time… especially with my I-20): even if I don't like Jose Bove, the absurd story of him being denied entering the US is typical - everybody loves this "green form"...