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U.S. Biometric Passports By Late 2004
truthsearch writes "The Register is reporting 'Current plans call for the new passport books to include a contactless smart chip based on the 14443 standard, with a minimum of 32 Kbytes of EEPROM storage. The chip will contain a compressed full-face image for use as a biometric. European biometric passports, by contrast, are planned to feature both retinal and fingerprint recognition biometrics on their smart cards.' How they tie this to '9/11 fears' is curious considering the hijackers had valid paperwork."
I said "postus firstus." That's Latin for "post in close temporal proximity to the first."
Don't blame me for your sub-standard Classical education. It was your choice to go to Brown. Imbecile.
"They ratchet up security procedures, requiring everybody to show ID when flying, but when they decide that the aircraft went down not because of terrorism but because of a design flaw, do they roll back the tightened security?"
When do you think `they` will decide that the WTC incident was a design flaw?
Given that we already have passports, what is the downside of having a 20 MB chip in a passport with pictures, animations, DNA, fingerprints, audio samples etc etc? I don't understand. It's just a (potentially) more secure, harder to forge mathod of ID. Sure some people will get fake ID. That isn't a logical argument for not having a more-secure ID system. You don't NOT use a condom just because it's not 100%. Do you?
And still make it in.
Offhand, every male in Israel comes to mind.
Just what I want, a bunch of Mexicans flooding in and stealing / trashing everything. Ever been to Mexico? Garbage everywhere. Nice.