Comments on: RFID passports take off

Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries required by the U.S. to issue passports with radio tags are doing so.

[heystoopid]

oh well

Oh well, time to wrap these documents in alfoil to create a faraday cage effect to stop the scanners from cloning the data!

[cyberposium12]

RFID security issues a big deal

Privacy and security concerns around RFID are significant and need to be addressed sooner than later. With numerous identifying devices (here passports, but credit cards and other items as well) incorporating RFID, potential security holes would have wide implications.

Recently, a research team demonstrated that thieves could read credit card numbers from a few feet away with a $150 home-made device.

Sanjay Sarma, an former-MIT professor who is credited with defining and developing many of the standards and technologies that form the foundation of the commercial RFID industry, is speaking at Harvard Business School's technology conference, Cyberposium, on Nov 11. If you're interested in RFID, you should take a look at www.cyberposium.com.

John Shapiro
Director of Public Relations
Cyberposium

[sixdayschris]

RFID

I have a RFID implant in the back of my wrist... the things have virtually no security to speak of and i'm wondering if in future i'm going to be harassed if both chips are scanned in one pass lol

[jabbotts]

Hey, I saw that on TV

Is that the RFID in a glass bead implant? I saw a thing on a body piercing place that was also doing implants so you can wire your house, car and whatever else rather than carry keys.

[newcreation]

its just the start

what will happen when all will be mandated to have a rfid in them?