Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 from the joke's-on-you dept. Daedala writes "The debate over [1]contactless chips with biometric information in passports continues. Vendors have been chosen for testing in the [2]U.S. and [3]Australia. [4]Privacy advocates are still arguing about the measure, as are [5]security reporters and [6]bloggers. The [7]specs themselves are interesting, to say the least. The EETimes says that [8]in interoperability tests, the potential chips could be read from 30 feet away. However, both they and the New York Times have published [9]articles reporting vendors' low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a joke?" IFRAME: [10]pos6 References 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/22/0040202&tid=158 2. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=52200157 3. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51200486 4. http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-60594 5. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2004/nf2004115_1663_db016.htm 6. http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000434.html 7. http://www.icao.int/mrtd/download/technical.cfm 8. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=45400010 9. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/politics/26passport.html?hp&ex=1101531600&e n=6e6254bd574cba42&ei=5094&partner=homepage 10. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5819&alloc_id=12652&site_id=1&request_id=4960775 ----- 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]