Nexus S will become a contactless analogue of a credit card, will contain an NFC chip and will bring the apocalypse closer

Sophia Doronina on the website of Fest News CJSC said that Eric Schmidt (Google’s executive director) at a conference in San Francisco demonstrated Nexus S running Android version 2.3 (“Gingerbread”) equipped with an integrated NFC chip - and this chip will allow the use of mobile phones as an analogue of credit cards to pay for purchases and services in a non-contact way (it will be enough just to bring the mobile phone to the appropriate terminal at a distance of less than ten centimeters).

Egor Stanislavovich Kholmogorov rightly observes that such technological developments (which, as we know on Habrahabr, were launched by Nokia , and also enjoy the support of Apple and  Visa) carry the danger of popularizing Satanic totalitarianism: because if any government begins to implant NFC-like payment chips in its citizens (in order to be able to rob anyone in an instant), the very mark of the Beast that St. John writes about in the last of the books of the New Testament.

What interests me most is whether these chips will take root under Russian conditions, and if so, how. Perhaps, the possibility of unpleasant accidents to which the money of users will be exposed will be wide, especially if the chip is interfaced with the account of the mobile operators of the “Big Three”, or if this chip cannot be turned off in Android with the same ease with which GPS chips are disconnected by widgets alone, Bluetoothand wifi when not needed. Muscovites, for example, need to be ready right now, because the Moscow Metro promised to introduce NFC as a means of paying for travel before the New Year , and with the support of the MTS mobile operator: it means transferring funds from a subscriber’s mobile account , which I ironically congratulate all of you . You had paid incoming SMS, and now, perhaps, there will be paid incoming NFC. Get ready.