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"? > L

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 1200f

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-19 Thread Tyler Durden
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL 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

Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID...

2005-08-17 Thread Tyler Durden
7 years of GoJu training...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 (E

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

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

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 be

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 o

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. Ther