I guess we charge was a bad example from everything the community shared. But still… are we holding ourselves back by staying with the frequency that was available and already adopted in smartphones?
Would a transdermal Qi port (or the optimal through tissue frequency) help the people who require more /long term power & continuous operation?
…perhaps less invasive, a wristband that holds a smartwatch battery, Qi interface that you wear on top of your implant and BLE to connect to your phone. (The wristband could also be programmed as a timer: turn on the implant every 30 minutes to log temperature (Although wrists aren’t a good position for this) …have the wristband act as the touch trigger to the yubikey part of a vivokey apex)
Mine as well just make the whole thing a wearable then, no need for an implant. We have no current solution even with advanced materials science to allow for a transdermal seal. You can just use a battery and wireless inductive charging protocol like Qi, with the added bonus that there are devices that have already passed FDA 501k and EU MDR that you can emulate
I don’t know what OP’s goal was when they inquired about through the skin USB.
A wristband with Qi, BLE + battery could give people an easier mediator to their implant, if thats what they need… freedom of movement while not having to hold their phone in the exact place for a while.
I personally like that my secrets are inside (can’t be grabbed or lose them… why i got the apex). So 2 yubikeys can get lost / stolen, one remains inside me
So I don’t want to get political, but if this breaks any rules, please remove, mods. I am a multi-generational American citizen, yet I fear that I may be part of a demographic that likely could be targeted for deportation soon.
I didn’t realize dermal piercings were temporary/required a lot of maintenance. I kinda just assumed the body would form a fistula around the piercing.
The original line of thinking was to have something with an interface so that I could update/add files as I receive/think of them. Following a deportation, I worry about any record of citizenship being purged. I’d like to keep a copy of things like my ID, birth cert, SSN card, taxes, SS contributions, etc within an implant so that it can’t be lost or deleted (I am not as worried about bitrot due to how long it takes). I also don’t exactly trust big tech not to comply with any such purge orders.
I the end, what I will probably do is just try to gather as many of these documents as I can, get them preloaded onto the microSD, and have it bio-coated if Amal would be willing to do so. Additionally, I will likely host these files somewhere in the cloud for redundancy. I have wanted to get an Apex anyway, so I will probably use that for the encryption key.
You might want to look into getting a passport card, along with a regular passport if you don’t have it already. Although if you are a citizen, any type of ID or document that proves this will suffice.
Provided, they can’t legally deport you if you’re a citizen. And they must allow you back in as well.
Still, having a copy of everything is a good idea.
On a completely unrelated note, do you have more citizenships or just the American one?
Just the American citizenship. I started looking into dual citizenship too late bc I believed in people. I dont currently have a passport. It is on the top of my priority list. Followed by the SD, then the Apex. It’s just difficult doing any of this living practically paycheck to paycheck due to the cost of living.
That said though, I don’t think, in the scenario I am envisioning, a passport will do me any good beyond the possibility of requesting asylum in Canada, but that will require the right timing.
Where would they even deport you to? And if they do, whichever country they send you to will probably deport you back to the US…
It’s an easy way to prove your citizenship. Still, you might want to ask someone who knows more than me about the US.
I don’t know much about what’s going on over there, I’ve just moved around a bit and have a general understanding of how legal immigration works in most countries.
If you don’t have a passport or other federally issued ID that cements your citizenship then a birth certificate at the very least should be with you at all times if you have any concerns. You can get multiple legitimate copies of your birth certificate from most states, so keep a legit real copy with you not a Xerox photocopy of one.
Since you are a multi-generational I don’t think there’s any issue here other than proof if you run up against ICE, so get your birth certificate in order and then get a passport and if your state has it, an enhanced driver’s license… carrying your passport with you everywhere you go is impractical but an enhanced driver’s license and a copy of your birth certificate and you should be good to go documentation wise.
So, it’s not so much that I fear racial profiling as I am white, but I am trans. My fears are that I the near future, my IDs and other supporting documents may be subject to confiscation for being “fraudulent.” Leaving me, and many others, without any ability to prove that I am American, subjecting me to deportation to someplace like El Salvador. Perhaps I am being overly paranoid, but with the current disregard of due process and the constution as a whole, along with the patterns that I can’t help but notice, I believe this is a realistic and semi-probable outcome.
The backup would be for if things ever return to normal, I’d have backups just in case.
That country won’t take you without some proof of Salvadoran citizenship… No one wants to accept people who are getting deported, but countries have to allow their own citizens in…
The US is so weird with it’s lack of dedicated ID cards… Gosh, the European ones even meet the e-passport standard but are only valid as such within the EU. And Mercosur member countries starting to add smartcard functionality to their ID cards.
Believe it or not, the State of Washington sends out legitimate birth certificate copies in COMIC FUCKING SANS FONT. Yes. Comic sans. I’ll dig one of mine out one of these days and post a photo of an inconsequential section of it.
Hoping your fears never come true, and instead the future you will look back at it as nothing more than applying and updating copies of all your relevant documents.
In general, with government & law enforcement, I remember reading that for phones passwords are preferred to biometrics (since passwords are protected under i think the 5th ammendment, while biometrics are a gray area). Implants (if they even discover it) are probably even more unknown terrain, but setting a pin on your webauth, TOTP, password vault is always a good idea.
There is an ongoing case where the US government is arguing that if it illegally deports someone then once they are outside the US they are no longer under US jurisdiction and therefore it’s up to whichever country they are in to decide whether to send them back or just let them rot in prison.
So little details like whether the person is a US citizen or has ever been convicted of a crime might not matter as long as you can get them over the border quickly enough and throw a few dollars at a third world dictator to hold them.
WTF!? Most countries don’t want to deal with their own criminals, let alone criminals from somewhere else.
He said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
Ok, that doesn’t seem too crazy, but I don’t think it’s legal and could lack transparency.
Since the American prison system manufacturers a significant amount of stuff for the army and we’re talking about the country with the most inmates per capita, the whole system seems messed up. And it’s probably not going to get better with that.
Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US
I’m pretty sure that they do, and are liable for damages.
Most countries don’t want to deal with their own criminals, let alone criminals from somewhere else.
That’s only an issue if you want to look after them and involve them in your society. If you can just chuck 50 of them in a concrete box while collecting a pay check it is less of a problem.
He said his country would accept only “convicted criminals”
Abrego Garcia has not been convicted of a crime.
I don’t think it’s legal
What’s legal is decided by the same judges they ignored when they deported him in the first place, and which they continue to ignore when the courts order his return.
liable for damages
You can’t sue the US government without their permission. “Sovereign Immunity”
they are getting a lot of funds from the US to “host” them …
the cases in the news are just the tip of the iceberg, most cases try to stay under the radar to not attract attention … have a chat with immigration attorney to get a better idea of what is really going on …
Ho, and disable all biometric logging, they don’t need a warrant to grab your finger/face and hold it in front of your phone, but they do need a warrant to get your password
I do keep biometrics enabled on my phone. I just quickly hit lockdown mode any time I get pulled over or if i think i might interact with police in any capacity. i don’t even do anything illegal, yet i keep it password protected with a 16+ character randomly generated password with full disc encryption just because if they are going to target me or waste my time, I’m going to waste theirs lol.
But police and ICE (ICE is not police) can force you to unlock your devices with biometric without a warrant “probable cause” for police and “suspicion” for ICE are enough. But if there is a password, they cannot force you to give out your code without a warrant (signed by a judge).
Note that within a 100 miles of a border (or coast line) ICE agent can search you, your devices and vehicle without warrant (but they cannot enter a building without the owner consent). They can also force you to use biometric to unlock any devices if enable. As for password, you can refuse to give the code and encryption, but they can confiscate the device for up to 5 days and backup the data indefinitely. All this without warrant and only with “suspicion”, no matter your immigration status or citizenship (yes, they can do it to US citizen too).
