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RFID Drivers' Licenses Debated
meganthom writes "How would you feel about having an RFID chip in your driver's license? Virginia is considering just such a measure, largely because several of the 9/11 hijackers were licensed there. Civil rights advocates are obviously unhappy with this turn of events, and it seems the ACLU has already taken the case. Proponents claim it would help law enforcement determine that you are who you claim to be and would make forgeries less common. The Federal government is also considering uniform 'smart card' standards."
Will now be a New and Improved Canadian.
*sigh*
Anybody got some tin foil?
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How would you feel about having an RFID chip in your driver's license?
Yeah we all know how secure those RFID chips are, smart-card or not. I mean, no one would *ever* tamper with them, would they? A magic marker and a bic pen, and the thing is sputtering profanities at whoever accesses it! Better... I can see the expression on the officer's face now when he pings mine and sees I have installed Linux on it.
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Does that mean I will have to leave my driver's licence at home before robbing a bank ?
(do any states do that anymore?)
In Virginia you automagically have your SSN put on your License unless you select the porly worded opt-out checkbox on your application form.
But these new RFID chips will prevent the Terrorists from using fake licenses! Wait .. the terrorists had real licenses? Acquired legally? Oh shit, we're fucked.
you can always make a tinfoil billfold to keep your new RFID drivers license in...
The idea of seeing who is snooping your data by listening for retching noises is entertaining.
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Can I get a matching hat to go with that?
Hey Marge! I done tried to kill the tag like they told me to on that thar slashydot place so the aliens can't track me no more. But I'll be darned if they didn't go and beam it up right out of the microwave! All they left behind was a puddle of goo.
Not if you didn't know how it got that way. Damn kids again.
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Such wallets will be soon be illegal to own, sell, or manufacture, as an access control device.
Its important to remember this, otherwise our plan to take over the world will fail. (Oops, did I say that out loud?)