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Passport Chip Could Attract High-Tech Muggers

Posted by Zonk on from the what,-no-trust? dept.

Orangez writes "Wired.com reports that 'business travel groups, security experts and privacy advocates are looking to derail a government plan to insert remotely readable chips in American passports, calling the chips homing devices for high-tech muggers, identity thieves and even terrorists.' and that 'The 64-KB chips will include the information from the photo page of the passport, including name, date of birth and a digitized form of the passport picture.'"

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  1. Why biometrics are bad: by Ironsides · · Score: 4, Informative

    Posted today at the BBC

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  2. Re:When will people realise that remotely readable by shaitand · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because it would be illegal to export encryption of that strength. It does not matter if the other nation already has the technology.

  3. Re:why are travellers worried? by cosmo7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had thought this was alarmist, that the information would be a set of MD5s or in the case of client-side data, public-key encrypted, but that turns out to not be the case. It's all naked data.