When you get electronic parts they come in an "antistatic" envelope which is silvery on one face and clear on the other face. Everyone has some of these around. Passports have the RFID chips; so do credit cards and other stuff.
What is in there? If it is static shielding, will it also absorb or shield partially or fully passive RFID antennas so a guy could put it into a passport wallet and "improve" the safety against the RFID being "seen" at a distance (which is supposed to be less than a yard but some say can be detected up to 69 feet) which may, as is pointed out, have encrypted data which makes ID theft a remote possibility. But, might it make one identifiable1 as even having a passport or more so what country the passport represents which makes for a terrorist threat with some simple cheap electronics goods2. See these: 1 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_bi_ge/us_chipping_america_iv 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XXaqraF7pI ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
