Cruising Fisherman's Wharf For New Passports' Serial Numbers

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 12, 2009 @12:02AM from the sub-exactly-because-for-even-though dept.

schwit1 writes "Fox News has an AP story on a hacker in San Francisco driving around and needing as little as 20 minutes to be successful in acquiring a passport number: 'Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic US passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" the identifiers of four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet. ... Meanwhile, Homeland Security has been promoting broad use of RFID even though its own advisory committee on data integrity and privacy warned that radio-tagged IDs have the potential to allow "widespread surveillance of individuals" without their knowledge or consent.'"

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Dupe of a dupe of a dupe. by Futurepower(R) · 2009-07-12 00:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Slashdot has covered this story before, many times, beginning at least as early as 2005.
Re:Dupe of a dupe of a dupe. by kamapuaa · 2009-07-12 18:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

And even if they do start to read it, they'll never make it more than a few pages into that pile of crap.

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