Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Tyler Durden wrote: Gee whiz I'm scared. Look, since you're angling for some stats, come on over to New York. I'll meet you on the corner of 135th Street and St Nicholas Avenue (we call that neighborhood Harlem). Actually, isn't that technically Spanish harlem? Look

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, isn't that technically Spanish harlem? Nope. Look for me: 6'1, 220 lbs and looking EXACTLY like someone would look after 7 years of GoJu training...I'm the guy even the locals won't fuck with. I know many of those locals, and 7 years of GoJu aint gonna do shit for a 1200fps

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID... Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:51:10 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Tyler Durden wrote: Gee whiz I'm scared. Look, since you're angling for some stats, come on over to New York. I'll meet you on the corner of 135th Street and St

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-17 Thread Tyler Durden
...I'm the guy even the locals won't fuck with. -Tyler Durden From: Steve Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID... Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:20:54 -0400 (EDT) --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-15 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat him to death... Too bad for you that I cannot say the same about what you write. I have a different threat model. I've reached more or less the same conclusion. Or at least,

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
Quoting Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And since one's passport essentially boils down to a chip, why not implant it under the skin? You say that as though it hasn't been considered. As for the encryption issue, can someone explain to me why it even matters? It doesn't, actually. There is

Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Tyler Durden
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68451,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 And since one's passport essentially boils down to a chip, why not implant it under the skin? As for the encryption issue, can someone explain to me why it even matters? It would seem to me that any on-demand access to

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat him to death... I have a different threat model. I suggest that incompetence is _often_ deliberate and, at least to those who orchestrate such things, is designed to leave or provide cracks in arbitrary systesm that will

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-09 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And since one's passport essentially boils down to a chip, why not implant it under the skin? You say that as though it hasn't been considered. Good point. As many of us know, there are groups of