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Old 07-11-2009, 09:53 PM  
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Serial killer read your passport/DL chip 30 ft away and you got the death penalty

The new RFID chip being put in driver licenses and passports can be read from 30 feet
away by anyone with the equipment. Then they become you as all their movements
are tracked as being you and you get the blame for their serial killings.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Chips-...74657.html?x=0

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RFID, he wrote, has a fundamental flaw: Each chip is built to faithfully transmit its unique identifier "in the clear, exposing the tag number to interception during the wireless communication."

Once a tag number is intercepted, "it is relatively easy to directly associate it with an individual," he says. "If this is done, then it is possible to make an entire set of movements posing as somebody else without that person's knowledge."
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