Oh, no. Now my passport needs a tinhat, too. What a trash piece of journalism. They should have researched what Flexilis described a little better as far as the passport "triggering explosives." Flexilis did show that an RFID-equipped mine could be triggered by certain RFID features of the tag that did not require the encryption code to read the tag, but merely features that would be common to a country's implementation, eg target American passports. The mine needs considerable RFID detection gear to work. I'm sure they envision a large market selling passport shileds.
--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:45347] More AP nonsense To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 5:55 AM Another example of this "half a yard" nonsense! (Eighth paragraph, I think). http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090712/D99COISO0.html HARRY WYETH
