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From: LindyBill	4/26/2005 2:06:46 PM
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RFID PASSPORT PLAN FIZZLING? defensetech.org By noahmax on Homeland Security The State Department may be backing off a bit from its dumb-ass plan to embed radio frequency ID chips in passports, according to Wired News sleuth Kim Zetter. Instead of freely broadcasting to the world the passport-holder's personal information, the State Department is mulling the idea of requiring the "RFID reader to provide a key or password before it could read data embedded on a... passport's chip. It would also encrypt data as it's transmitted from the chip to a reader so that no one could read the data if they intercepted it in transit." Pretty Good Privacy creator Phil Zimmerman thinks the plan can "end the threat of skimming and eavesdropping" on the passports by potential evil-doers and identity thieves. But anti-RFID jihadist Bill Scannell notes that the chips would still contain a code that says the passport belongs to an American. "And for a lot of bad guys," he adds, "that would be enough."..

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