Saturday, 30. December 2006
Topic: NEWS english - on December 30, 2006 at 10:28:00 AM CET
How To: Disable Your Passport's RFID Chip
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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