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Showing posts with label RFID. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RFID. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

TPC - New passports might transmit your data

From my archive of press clippings:

The Pueblo Chieftain

New passports might transmit your data

Published: July 08, 2009 02:56 pm

To protect against skimming and eavesdropping attacks, federal and state officials recommend that Americans keep their e-passports tightly shut and store their RFID-tagged passport cards and enhanced driver's licenses in "radio-opaque" sleeves.

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Friday, January 2, 2009

TR - Biz travelers howl over US gov RFIDs

From my archive of press clippings:

The Register

Biz travelers howl over US gov RFIDs

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Security, 1st December 2008 20:32 GMT VMware whitepaper - The business case for Virtualization

A travel industry group has called on the US government to halt its use of new machinery that remotely reads government issued identification cards at border crossings until the safety of the new system can be better understood.

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