Why Your Security is Perceived, not Real
In the post 9/11 world, the Bush administration bullied through a proposal to include RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier Device) chips in all US passports, and attempted to impose the same requirement on state driver's liscenses...in fact, several states now issue so-called "smart id's".
From Slashdot
schwit1 writes "Fox News has an AP story on a SF hacker driving around and needing as little as 20 minutes to be successful in acquiring a passport number: 'Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic US passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" the identifiers of four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet. ... Meanwhile, Homeland Security has been promoting broad use of RFID even though its own advisory committee on data integrity and privacy warned that radio-tagged IDs have the potential to allow "widespread surveillance of individuals" without their knowledge or consent.'"
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