> People steal identities all the time. It does not require reading a > passport rfid. Nor does reading a passport rfid make it any easier.
Ah but it does make it easier. Your place of birth, full name and birth date are encoded and at the least available for recovery. It's a bigger risk than you realize. If you have a Drivers License with RFID, you present legal address is available along with your License number. I suggest that if skimmers are interested in getting the information off ATM cards, RFID info is even more valuable. > It may be true in the future that muggers will carry rfid scanners. > They may be small enough that they could be concealed in the clothing, > and would perhaps use a projection system to display the data inside > the thief's retina where no one else could see what he was doing. But > if you're worried about real life violence *today*, then you'll want > to stop going to grocery stores or worse - don't ever stop to fill up > your gas tank! Muggers don't need a display to capture the data. All they need is some means of later recovering said data. I shudder to think of what one skimmer equivalent for RFID at an airport could accomplish. Paranoia may not be a desirable state, but RFID has lots of risks unless encryption schemes greatly improve. The passport scheme has apparently been hacked, as have many credit card rfid schemes. In a society where people are advised not to wear clothing with a first name, is having a passport that broadcasts your info on command such a good idea? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
