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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 14 Number 2 Mar / Apr 2007 251 In Response In Response to: Letter to the Editor Regarding: “A Security Analysis of the Verichip Implantable RFID Device” JOHN HALAMKA, MD, ARI JUELS J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007;14:251. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2339. prophecy made back at the time of Christ. Revelation, the last To the Editor, book of the Bible, describes a time when all people will have In our article, we cited a book co-authored by Katherine to take a mark in order to buy or sell . . . Albrecht entitled Spychips: Why Christians Should Resist RFID Our article and citation made no reference to Ms. Albrecht’s and Electronic Surveillance. We made the citation in support own religious or political beliefs or practices, nor are they of our statement that, “Religious groups have gone so far as germane to our research results or writings. Our citation to claim that the VeriChip may be a realization of the Mark sought to draw attention to the nature of some public of the Beast as described in the New Testament.” We believe concern about the VeriChip. Indeed, one of us, due to public that our citation was appropriate. Even in Ms. Albrecht’s knowledge that he had an identification chip implanted in largely identical, secularly-oriented book, SpyChips: How his arm, received e-mail from several people alleging that he Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every had received the Mark of the Beast. Move with RFID, there is a sidebar entitled, “Payment Implants and the Mark of the Beast.” It reads: We offer our sincere apologies for the lapse in careful scholarship that led to our incorrectly citing Ms. Albrecht’s The RFID implant device, [sic] known variously as the book; we traced the source of our incorrect citation to the VeriChip, or VeriPay, sets off alarm bells for a lot of Chris- Barnes and Noble web site www.bn.com file://www.bn.com. tians. Many believe it may be the fulfilllment [sic] of a At the time of writing of this letter, that site cites the book as, The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Affiliation of the authors: Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Computer Tracking. We thank Ms. Albrecht for pointing our (JH) Boston, MA; RSA Laboratories, (AJ) Bedford, MA. then erroneous citation, and will correct it in any future Correspondence and reprints to: Dr. John Halamka, 1135 Tremont articles referencing her work. Street, 6th Floor, Boston MA, 02215; e-mail: jhalamka@caregroup. Yours sincerely, harvard.edu. Received for review: 11/27/06; accepted for publication: 12/12/06. John Halamka and Ari Juels
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association – Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2007
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