RFID Driver's licenses for VA

[Sunder]

So the cops and RFID h4x0rZ can know your true name from a distance.  and 
since RFID tags, are what, $0.05 each, the terrorists and ID 
counterfitters will be able to make fake ones too... Whee!


http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65243,00.html

RFID Driver's Licenses Debated 
By Mark Baard

Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65243,00.html

09:50 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT

Some federal and state government officials want to make state driver's 
licenses harder to counterfeit or steal, by adding computer chips that 
emit a radio signal bearing a license holder's unique, personal 
information.

In Virginia, where several of the 9/11 hijackers obtained driver's 
licenses, state legislators Wednesday will hear testimony about how radio 
frequency identification, or RFID, tags may prevent identity fraud and 
help thwart terrorists using falsified documents to move about the 
country.

Privacy advocates will argue that the radio tags will also make it easy 
for the government to spy on its citizens and exacerbate identity theft, 
one of the problems the technology is meant to relieve.

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Because information on RFID tags can be picked up from many feet away, 

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