Happy Independence Day America!

I wanted to take a moment tell my fellow Americans "Happy Independence Day"! Feels odd celebrating my countries independence from our cousins across the pond while blogging about technology designed to create dependency.

For those who are new please take a moment and read the original blog post "Missed the Mark: Smartphones and Their Use In End Time Prophecy". If this link doesn't work you can go to previous posts and find it or just paste this URL in to your browser.

http://www.smartphonesarethemark.blogspot.com/2012/06/missed-mark-smartphones-and-their-use.html.

It is a long read but trust me, it is worth it. This original post is my initial research in to the potential use of Smartphone technologies to fulfill end time prophecy. This research began when I was attending the graduate school for Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD). My goal with the research is to point out that technology is being put in place to control people. With the recent revelations regarding the collusion between technology firms such as GOOGLE and Facebook and the National Security Agency (NSA) it is easy to begin to see how this technology was not intended to benefit us. The entertainment afforded us by this technology was simply bait on the hook. Those who have studied marketing should have recognized these dangers earlier than most.

Please enjoy the information here and Thank You for visiting my blog.

Technology And Financial Convergence: Bad News For All

Banking Consultant Nuciforo: Google Is Threatening the Banking Industry

This article practically spells out how this technology is is poised to control all buying and selling.

Google Has Bigger Plans... For All Of Us

Google-Berg: Global Elite Transforms Itself For Technocratic Revolution

The Mark Will Be Specific To Each Person

Google Is Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Glass Eyewear | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Some interesting info regarding how technology companies will make the technology specific to each user.

UN Attempts to Take Control of the Internet!

Those who have read my research "Missed The Mark: Smartphones and Their Use In End Time Prophecy" know the Mark of the Beast is only a symbol of allegiance to a world economic system. While the Smartphone is the tool that will be used to access the world economic system, the backbone of that system is the Internet. Control of the Internet will be absolutely important to control all who use it for commerce. For more information regarding how this will work please read "Biometrics: Gatekeeper of the MOB System". As stated earlier control of the Internet will be crucial to controlling all commerce. It seems our friends at the UN have figured this out as well. According to Mathew Ingram at Bloomberg Businessweek details this attempt by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Ingram, Mathew. "Is the UN the Next Big Threat to Internet Freedom?" Bloomberg Businessweek. Gigaom, 1 June 2012. Web. 28 Dec. 2012. <http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-01/is-the-un-the-next-big-threat-to-internet-freedom>.

NFC Handset Use Increasing

According to "NFC News", over 100 million NFC smartphones will be sold in 2012.  That equals approximately 1/3 of the entire population of the USA. When compared with the world wide population of over 7 billion, that may not seem like a big deal, but this is more than double the 40 million NFC enabled handsets that shipped in 2011. (Balaban, 2011) If the number of NFC enabled phones continues doubling, 1/7 of the world population will have an NFC enabled phone in just 5 years. http://www.nfcnews.com/2012/08/06/report-100-million-nfc-phones-to-ship-in-2012 Balaban, Dan. "NFC TimesThe Premier Source for News, Analysis and Commentary on Near Field Communication and All Contactless Technology." "NFC Phone Shipments for 2011 Expected to Come in Below Projections". NFC Times, 29 Sept. 2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2012.

Biometrics: Gatekeeper of the MOB System

Today I want to discuss how Biometrics will link followers of the Anti-Christ to the world economic system. As discussed in previous posts the elimination of anonymity is required to control all buying and selling. In my original research “Missed the Mark”, I discuss how systems are being put in place to reduce any anonymity on the internet. These same systems will also eliminate anonymity during point of sale transactions. It is important to note the excuses for implementation of these systems will always be” to reduce fraud and theft as well as provide added security”. What those who are implementing these systems don’t realize is this system is only as safe as those who control it. Under the Anti-Christ, these ID systems will be used to control all who take the Mark. These systems are being implemented in virtually every major country in one form or another. The 2 components of these systems that make them work are the use of Biometrics as the primary form of identification, and the creation of interoperable databases to house the biometric data. One country that is working to lead the way for the rest of the world is India.

By far the most ambitious of all of the countries regarding the creation of national ID’s that use biometric data India’s Planning Commission has been tasked to implement the Unique Identification Authority of India or UIDAI. This system generates a random 12 digit number that is backed up by a complete set of biometric data such as “10 finger biometrics, 2 iris scans, and photograph” which “establishes the identity of the person with over 99.5% accuracy. This system will accommodate more than 12 billion fingerprints, 2.4 billion iris scans, and 1.2 billion photographs.” This system is built with open source web technologies making it an open system (interoperable) that other systems will be able to tie in to. According to Rai “once established and stored, a person’s identity can easily be verified and authenticated using a cell phone, smart phone, tablet or any other device hooked to the internet”. (Rai, 2012) Rai also points out several pilot programs that are accessing the UIDAI system. These pilot programs allow Indians to open bank accounts after receiving a unique ID, which allow them to use a smartphone to authenticate in to the system, allowing the transfer and withdrawal of money from their accounts. (Rai, 2012) For more information you can go directly to the UIDAI site at http://uidai.gov.in. If India successfully pulls this off and registers all 1.2 billion of its citizens it will not be hard to transfer these lessons learned and best practices to accommodate the remaining 6 billion inhabitants of this planet.

For information on how the United States is secretly working to implement this system see my initial post “Missing the Mark”. Information regarding National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) can be found under the section titled “Internet Transactions”. What is not in my initial research that all who read should consider is the realization by the US Commerce Department that the only way to make this ID scheme work is the implementation of biometrics associated with the online ID. For more information regarding biometrics and NSTIC read “Is the NSTIC Strategy for a Passwordless System Viable?” For additional information  read "Thumbs Up for NSTIC".

Before I finish I would like to name additional countries which are currently working to tie biometric data to their national ID’s. These countries are Argentina, Kenya, and France. It won’t be long before additional countries with mandatory national ID’s will follow the lead of India and implement their ID’s with this data.

References:

Rai, Saritha. "Why India's Identity Scheme Is Groundbreaking." BBC News. BBC, 06 June 2012. Web. 02 Sept. 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18156858.

Shenoy, Gurudatt. "Is the NSTIC Strategy for a Passwordless System Viable?" Is the NSTIC Strategy for a Passwordless System Viable? Infosecisland, n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2012. <http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/13161-Is-the-NSTIC-Strategy-for-a-Passwordless-System-Viable.html>.

"Thumbs Up for NSTIC" Security Document World. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2012. <http://www.securitydocumentworld.com/index.cfm>.