Privacy Threat in New RFID Travel Cards?

DemolitionX9 writes to tell us ZDNet has an interesting article rehashing the problems with privacy in future RFID-equipped travel documents and ID. The piece focuses on a recent speech given by Jim Williams, director of the Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT program. From the article: "Many of the privacy worries center on whether RFID tags--typically minuscule chips with an antenna a few inches long that can transmit a unique ID number--can be read from afar. If the range is a few inches, the privacy concerns are reduced. But at ranges of 30 feet, the tags could theoretically be read by hidden sensors alongside the road, in the mall or in the hands of criminals hoping to identify someone on the street by his or her ID number."

Comments

FOIL'ID AGAIN

[From A Far Away Land]

The FOIL'ID AGAIN is a humourous example of how to prevent the Department of Homeland Insecurity from messing up your privacy:
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/woodmtn/insight.html

Re:Mark of the Beast!

[OverlordQ]

Please I beg to ask you why the parent is offtopic? It shows how rediclous arguments against RFID are.

NO NO NO!!! YOU FOOL!!!

[GuloGulo]

You're actually thinking about this, and because of that, I would guess you also read the article.

In either case, you're not qualified to comment as long as you are actually using your brain to process this information.

Once you've stopped doing that, you may give input. We don't want anyone to see that the sky isn't actually falling, so keep your informed, intelligent, well thought out opinion to yourself.