Comments on: New York offers RFID-embedded driver's licenses

The State of New York has begun to offer driver's licenses embedded with RFID chips.

[Dr_Zinj]

PULEEEEZE!

In order for an ID number to be of use, the border patrol would need a live database of all citizens ID numbers. If that's the ONLY information they have, then anyone could dup the number onto a fake ID and enter the country.

You want to authorize the reentry of people who belong in this country, then take a photo, or fingerprint set as they leave, and store it centrally for live access by any border patrol station. Have them compare with person when they come back and after readmittance, destroy the record. If we could ensure the feds weren't using the record for any other purpose, and once not needed, destroyed, that would preserve everyone's privacy issues.

[crusadex]

You know that every state is being mandated to register drivers in national database and have them checked against terror lists etc.

[archaicforest]

The comment "look into getting an RFID-blocking wallet and an aluminum foil hat" is highly offensive. Identity theft is rampant; banks and government sites get hacked weekly. It is entirely possible that the RFID signal can be stolen and used by unscrupulous people. This has happened and will continue to happen despite the best efforts of security gurus to try to prevent this.

[irfan_bugmenot]

[sarcasm] Why don't they just the put the ID number into your arm? [/sarcasm]

It doesn't take much to go from homeland security to police state. And I'm not just being paranoid. I have world history on my side. It's happened other places before (still is in some places) and it could happen here too.

[irfan_bugmenot]

[sarcasm] Why don't they just the put the ID number into your arm? [/sarcasm]

It doesn't take much to go from homeland security to police state. And I'm not just being paranoid. I have world history on my side. It's happened other places before (still is in some places) and it could happen here too.

[Mr304]

your sarcasm is actually right. It's coming soon, well it's already been done but it'll be world wide in a hot minute. WATCH... cuz their watching u

[irfan_bugmenot]

Sorry about that I clicked back in the browser and then forward again.

[mad1111]

Let's just give them a fourescent stamp on the tops of the hands like they do at Disneyland!!! hahaha (just warn them not to wash it off!!!)

[unquenchablefire]

I agree. The comment about tinfoil hats ignores something that has been known in the tech world for years: RFID is in no way secure. All the way back in 2005 security researchers were showing how easy it was to clone someone else's RFID Speedpass. With identity theft as it is today, do you really want personal info on something that easily hackable?

[Manhattan2]

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[crusadex]

I dout it will be long before RFID is deemed a risk and more personal RFID stratgeis are used.There are companies working on RFID infused paint and even RFID infused DNA.Can't get more personal than that.
Lot's of plans for rfid's on cars, toll roads etc....
Here we go.but exactly where is that.

[bruceslog]

"Authorities say no personal information will be stored or transmitted by the chip, only an identification number. "
Are these the same 'authorities' who told us that Iraq attacked us in 2001 ? ( It was Bin Laden )
Or that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction stockpiled to use against us ? ( We never could find them - cause they weren't there )

And you believe every single thing they feed to you without question, don't you ?
No wonder the Nation is in such a crappy shape today.

[AnonTip]

CNET has been one of the most respected sources of information during the most massive build-out of government surveillance in history, especially with the impressively comprehensive and insightful articles from staff members such as Declan McCullagh.

Antuan Goodwin's superficial, moronic comments about "foil hats" are an utterly amazing, amateurish contrast that dimishes the respect for CNET as a whole. The fact that CNET managment apparently supports such trivialzed, whimsical treatment of what many/most of their readers consider to be one of the most compelling issues of our generation only encourages their readers to drop CNET from their list and instead rely on WIRED.

Antuan should go back to operating the slurpee machine at 7-11, which no doubt is probably the crowning achievement of his prior "credentials" as a reporter...

[Mr304]

what the hell are these people doing can't they see that this is just another way too "track your every move" your not even being identified by name any more " YOUR A NUMBER" no more Mr. or Mrs.... its "Hello 10029896" thats crazy. WAKE UP AMERICA