CNET - Feds fund secure ID project
There are many students of Bible prophecy who insist that the mark of the beast (Rev 13:16-18) will not be technological at all, but will simply be a tattoo. That's a very low-tech solution and not exactly something many of us get excited about. Give us chips, give us implants, give us tracking technology linked to satellites, but a tattoo? Ok, here is something you may not be aware of, a tattoo can be a form of technology and fully linkable to databases and the online world of e-commerce and m-commerce. There is a technology called digital watermarks and it's been around for some time but is only now being linked to personal identity verification. I think it is something worth keeping an eye on.