Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/08/1711239 Posted by: timothy, on 2004-08-09 08:19:00 from the man-exists-for-the-state dept. [1]borkee writes "[2]Estonian [3]MEAC and [4]CMB [5]start testing a new version of a [6]national ID card containing what they call 'contactless' extensions. Although they do not specifically disclose to us, taxpayers, what technology is used there, it must be quite obvious that it's nothing less than [7]RFID. Add to this, they'll have person's biometrics in memory. (Security gurus of course know: biometrics just don't work.) Soon you can track us poor Estonians by our GSM phones and by our ID cards too!" References 1. mailto:bmaroshe@itcollege.ee 2. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/en.html 3. http://www.mkm.ee/eng/ 4. http://www.mig.ee/eng/ 5. http://www.postimees.ee/050804/esileht/141020.php 6. http://www.id.ee/pages.php/0303 7. http://www.eff.org/issues/rfid ----- 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]