RFID Driver's licenses for VA

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Sat Oct 9 09:03:22 PDT 2004


At 10:57 PM 10/8/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>At 04:35 PM 10/7/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>>A defense is a metal board in a wallet, close to the RFID chip's
antenna.
>>It is readable when the licence is taken out of the wallet. When
inside,
>>the antenna is quite effectively shielded.
>
>Tinfoil Wallets, anybody?  :-)

When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over
it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet.  And apparently
you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens
from it.  Then it will be safe to carry, and you can see for yourself
what it tells
everyone else ---part of the definition of safety.





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