from the duh!!! dept. Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/1541257 Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-03-31 17:11:00 from the what,-no-trust? dept. [1]Orangez writes "Wired.com reports that 'business travel groups, security experts and privacy advocates are looking to derail a government plan to insert remotely readable chips in American passports, calling the chips [2]homing devices for high-tech muggers, identity thieves and even terrorists.' and that 'The 64-KB chips will include the information from the photo page of the passport, including name, date of birth and a digitized form of the passport picture.'" References 1. mailto:demonnik@gmail.com 2. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67066,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]