The “Apex Flex” subdermal implant offers a surprising range of uses, including unlocking your Tesla and door, storing data, and serving as a 2FA NFC security key.

Biohackers were doing functional implants for years. Anything from magnets to rfid to compasses.

I’ve been reading about body modification since the early 2000s. People were designing and implanting RFID since they became easily available. People couldn’t get a consumer RFID door lock to work with them at the time, so they used a microcontroller and some steppers and built it themselves. It’s a pretty cool subculture. The early magnet implants had a habit of fracturing and being rejected though.

The Adeptus Mechanicus are already starting to form it would seem.

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Come on robot lick my battery

Boogey! Robo-boogey!

‘If you want to speak clearly, use binary’

The flesh is weak.

Speaking of flesh, what happens if you sell your Tesla? Do you have to cut off your hand and give it to the new owner?

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I remember reading about a guy on hackaday that built a carputer CCA 2004 or so and had his dogs vet implant an RFID tag in his hand so he could open his car door

Yup. Hardly WTF. Right now it is “why bother”. Also RFID is supremely insecure. Cloners are available for $20. Tags are like $0.10

I’ve never been able to find a good cloner for cheap. I’ve found plenty of readers, but putting it on another tag has always caused me issues. The cheapest one I got to work reliably was ~$130, but that was also *many* years ago, so maybe things are even easier now. I made a killing back in college precisely because RFID was so bad for security. The first week of college, they gave everyone temporary cards that had to be returned or you face a fine of ~$100. What a few of us realized was that they gave out one universal code for ***every single door*** with an RFID lock on campus. So I would make a few that first week and get into just about anywhere, even after hours. If you got locked out of your room, you had to pay the college $30. I told people I would do it for $20. I think over the 2 years I was living on campus, I made about $3.5k for letting people back into their room, and opening other doors for people. I would also sell master keys for $100/ea, but only if I trusted the person to keep quiet.

The scary part isn’t just the shit security. If you get a good reader, not just a cloner…. You can read a few samples… Most of them are in sequential order. Just pick one within the range and now you can be “someone else”. Shoot for a “master” that will get you into somewhere you shouldn’t be. It is easier than counting by ones. A child could do it!

Deviant Olam used an embedded RFID chip in his hand for Pen Testing.

He’s got a great story about putting a high security key on the chip while keeping a low security fake one that looked legit. He used the high end key to get into a building and when someone questioned him he played dumb and showed them the low end card saying it let him in, then put the card and his hand against a sensor in a way that made it look like he used the card but really used the chip.

Love seeing Deviant mentioned. I had the opportunity and privilege to see him talk about safe security and speak with him for a while afterwards in Durham, NC during Cackalackycon. [Here’s a link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFKJ9KaWGY) to his lengthy and informative talk about implantable RFID. Deev is primarily the catalyst for why I have 5 implants myself.

So I have heard a couple times about electricians putting some kind of magnet in a finger tip, but I have never been able to find anything on it. Have you ever heard of such a thing or am I losing it xD

I’m an electrician with a magnet in one of my fingers. It’s pretty fun having a bit of a sixth sense but it is not quite as helpful as I anticipated. I can sense currents if they are high enough, like hot water systems, and that has come in handy because I can feel if it is working intermittently. I can’t feel anything for basic 240v being present, like I can’t tell if a power point is on or off. I can feel transformers as well, in things like fans or lights, or in the blocks that are part of the lead you plug into the wall. It feels like a vibrating sensation in my finger. It’s also handy if I drop a screw into an awkward spot because if I can get my finger close enough it will stick. It’s also kind of a fun party trick.

This is what I was looking into. I primarily work with 120v as a city maintenance electrician but there are things around that go to 480 here, nothing bigger though besides 1 rando Megger at a lift station. The amount of times I have been shocked off of a wire not supposed to carry current….. I have a magnetizer and extendo wand along with a belt magnet but I definitely wanted to look into the sixth sense aspect. I have a couple questions…. First, how the heck did you do it? What type of magnet could be ideal for this application? Also, does it ever hurt like if you are lifting heavy or forcefully gripping a hard object? I have a tiny bone spur smaller than a pea at the base of my middle finger on my dominant hand. If I do repeated tasks as I described I definitely can start to feel that bad boy. Thank you for sharing, my awesome fellow sparky.

I’m not the guy above but I used to have one of those little spurs too, in the exact same place. A little hard, round lump on the inside of my hand at the base of my middle finger. I was in middle school and I think it finally went away after I whacked it on a desk or a book. Excruciating.

I noticed it while working with pressure chambers at my past job. Just gripping metal knobs (giggidy) and sometimes while exercising. Funny enough I found two more, one in my foot, which is painful while barefoot on concrete, but the bad one is right in my freakin knee. If I kneel down on concrete and find it, I absolutely collapse from the pain. I never think about it until I’m putting weight on the trouble maker until it is too late.

You may want to get it checked out, as it’s possible they’re able to be broken and essentially absorbed into the body (or processed and excreted out but same outcome). Sucks to go through, but one time massive pain versus constant pain.

Not the same guy but I watched a documentary years ago about people who did it. They had people implanting magnets in all sorts of places but the “best”/more frequent place was in the ring finger. Join your fingers, see where your ring and small fingers touch each other on their sides, follow that in the ring finger towards the tip until it extends further than the length of the small finger, that’s the spot – near the tip a bit to the side. According to them, it’s a relatively neutral place. It won’t be touching anything by default and it won’t be between the finger and whatever you’re lifting but it’s still easy to “use”. Some preferred in the dominant hands others didn’t.

I’m curious what goes on with TSA, or what if you need an MRI?

I’ve never had an issue with security. I have actually had an MRI on my knee and they just told me to raise my arms above my head to keep it as far from the machine as possible. I could feel the magnetic field but it was never uncomfortable or painful.

Yea, I wanted one in college but I was really into rock climbing and didnt want to potentially lose a fingertip. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vvg7j/i_have_two_magnets_implanted_in_my_fingertips/

You are my hero. I have tried to Google this a few times and nothing. That beast gives you what it wants you to see anymore.

pro tip: add -ai to your search or use the “web” tab on google to return results with no ai slop. or use qwant or ecosia instead

wow that sounds so cool! i want magnets in my fingertips now, even though thinking about it makes my hands and feet all sweaty… 😂