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PostPosted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:53 pm    Post subject: RFID in Passports Reply with quote
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=9

HOWTO disable your new, RFID-laden US passport
Smash the crap out of it with a hammer. No, seriously. Snip from Wired Magazine tutorial:
All passports issued by the US State Department after January 1 will have always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials – and hackers – to grab your personal stats. Getting paranoid about strangers slurping up your identity? Here’s what you can do about it. But be careful – tampering with a passport is punishable by 25 years in prison. Not to mention the “special” customs search, with rubber gloves. Bon voyage!
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