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Tin Foil Passports?

Posted by michael on from the joke's-on-you dept.

Daedala writes "The debate over contactless chips with biometric information in passports continues. Vendors have been chosen for testing in the U.S. and Australia. Privacy advocates are still arguing about the measure, as are security reporters and bloggers. The specs themselves are interesting, to say the least. The EETimes says that in interoperability tests, the potential chips could be read from 30 feet away. However, both they and the New York Times have published articles reporting vendors' low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a joke?"

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  1. You. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck

  2. Still by comwiz56 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even if the tinfoil blocks it, there's still alot of ways that the information could be stolen with little effort. And how durable would this paper be?

  3. new york times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gimme a break, 1/50000 readers has a new york times account. Lets get foolish

  4. What? ITS A JOKE? by wizzardme2000 · · Score: -1, Troll

    OMG OMG OMG! ALL THIS TIME AND IT WAS JUST A JOKE!!!?

    Now how am I supposed to keep "them" from reading my thoughts and injecting their own?

    OMG OMG OMG!

    --

    Toast lands jelly down. If you jelly both sides of a piece of toast, it will hover in a state of quantum indecision.
  5. Re:Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So the parent is labeled, "redundant," even though it's the first mention that the tinfoil hat is a joke?

    Ohhhh, I see - Anonymous Cowards are redundant before a registered member even logs on!

    Nice democratic system you have, ya cunts.

  6. NSA has the advantage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can all take a deep, deep whiff of the space between my ass and nuts. This region is commonly referred to as the "taint"

    That's because it 'taint your ass and it 'taint your nuts.

    All y'all assfucks can pound sand up your asses. GNAA can suck puckered starfish.

    Oh Canada...Will you never win?

  7. Consider what could go wrong... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can all take a deep, deep whiff of the space between my ass and nuts. This region is commonly referred to as the "taint"

    That's because it 'taint your ass and it 'taint your nuts.

    All y'all assfucks can pound sand up your asses. GNAA can suck my hershey highway.

    Oh Canada...Will you never win?

  8. This will never get off the ground by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can all take a deep, deep whiff of the space between my ass and nuts. This region is commonly referred to as the "taint"

    That's because it 'taint your ass and it 'taint your nuts.

    All y'all assfucks can pound sand up your asses. GNAA can suck man-hole.

    Oh Canada...Will you never win?

  9. I know of a decent workaround by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can all take a deep, deep whiff of the space between my ass and nuts. This region is commonly referred to as the "taint"

    That's because it 'taint your ass and it 'taint your nuts.

    All y'all assfucks can pound sand up your asses. GNAA can suck round brown.

    Oh Canada...Will you never win?

  10. Follow or lead... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can all take a deep, deep whiff of the space between my ass and nuts. This region is commonly referred to as the "taint"

    That's because it 'taint your ass and it 'taint your nuts.

    All y'all assfucks can pound sand up your asses. GNAA can suck man-gina.

    Oh Canada...Will you never win?

  11. Re:Wireless? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because they are going to hire thousands of mexicans/chinese/north africans to man the stations. They can't speak english, thus the contact-based system won't work unless you speak spanish, chinese, ethiopian, etc.

    God bless the holy christian empire.