Nah, an Alpenhorn is made of wood, and the bell is bent up at the end at a right angle. A Lituus is straight and made of brass. They would sound completely different.
It seems all the John Birchers who read Slashdot can't resist the opportunity to criticize the people of Fruit and Nut Land, but did it ever occur to them that gallium arsenide actually could be dangerous? It seems that Ronald Reagan's NIOSH/CDC was worried about it. Of course Reagan was a Californian too, so...
To me the bigger worry with these RFID passports is that, as someone demonstrated at DEFCON a year or two ago, they can be read at a distance of something like 25 feet. What a convenient way for terrorists, or whoever else might want to kidnap you, to identify you as you walk down the street. Or to identify your nationality, for the purposes of randomly kidnapping a Brit or American or whatever.
I have heard that a cost effective solution to this problem (and the duplication/manipulation problem too I suppose) is a well placed hammer strike to the little bulge in the passport where the RFID chip is hidden.
Everybody assumes that this data would go to criminals for use in ID theft mischief. What if terrorists used it to program their own Smart cards in order to "speed through airport security"?
You expect commercial interests to do dumb stuff like this out of greed or incompetence. Accordingly, the fact that TSA/DHS didn't certify this company's procedures tells you something about their competence/security.
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Nah, an Alpenhorn is made of wood, and the bell is bent up at the end at a right angle. A Lituus is straight and made of brass. They would sound completely different.
It seems all the John Birchers who read Slashdot can't resist the opportunity to criticize the people of Fruit and Nut Land, but did it ever occur to them that gallium arsenide actually could be dangerous? It seems that Ronald Reagan's NIOSH/CDC was worried about it. Of course Reagan was a Californian too, so...
So this raises the question: Can a virus be infected with a virus, which itself has been infected with a virus? If so then God where does it all end?
To me the bigger worry with these RFID passports is that, as someone demonstrated at DEFCON a year or two ago, they can be read at a distance of something like 25 feet. What a convenient way for terrorists, or whoever else might want to kidnap you, to identify you as you walk down the street. Or to identify your nationality, for the purposes of randomly kidnapping a Brit or American or whatever.
I have heard that a cost effective solution to this problem (and the duplication/manipulation problem too I suppose) is a well placed hammer strike to the little bulge in the passport where the RFID chip is hidden.
Everybody assumes that this data would go to criminals for use in ID theft mischief. What if terrorists used it to program their own Smart cards in order to "speed through airport security"?
You expect commercial interests to do dumb stuff like this out of greed or incompetence. Accordingly, the fact that TSA/DHS didn't certify this company's procedures tells you something about their competence/security.