> No they haven't. Calm down. If you feel danger in these places you're
> being forced to travel to, then you should consider a new job.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM, b_s-wilk<[email protected]> wrote:
>> > People have been targeted through their RFID tagged passports in
places like
Yes they have. So, you don't read the Guardian or the Register or Wired?
Early on, young hackers changed their grades on high school and
university computers, then it was the phone phreaks, then the stolen
remote codes for cars and trucks, then the hacked "blink" cards/passes.
Entire bank and credit card databases have been compromised. It's a tiny
step from there to hacking passports.
There have been stories about hacked passport chips for at least 3
years. The US isn't the only country with chipped passports. Examples:
http://tinyurl.com/yufasr, http://tinyurl.com/s2h2k,
http://tinyurl.com/caswtl, http://tinyurl.com/ak67l4
Chipped passports won't stop us from enjoying our travel. The thieves
did me a favor. I got my new passport one month before the RFID ones
were issued. Danger? We look for disasters: Airfares and everything else
are cheaper after a scare, like the time we booked a flight to Malaga
after it was bombed by ETA, and paid less than 1/2 of the discounted
price; luckily we left Alicante a day before it was bombed two blocks
from our apartment. We also went to southern Turkey soon after 9/11 and
loved it. Life is NOT boring!
Betty
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