{"id":1279,"date":"2008-08-11T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:00:23","slug":"microchip-rfid-passport-cloned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/08\/11\/microchip-rfid-passport-cloned\/","title":{"rendered":"Microchip (RFID) Passport Cloned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case there was any doubt that this whole digital passport \/ RFID passport thing was never about security (via <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/08\/07\/0214220&amp;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;New microchip passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft failed the test when a researcher was able to manipulate one in minutes. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article4467106.ece\">cloned passports were accepted as genuine<\/a> by the computer software recommended for use at international airports. According to the article: &#8216;A computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again demonstrating that there is <strong>absolutely no reason to have RFID in our passports<\/strong> and that it <strong>does not in any way make us more safe or secure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s just drop the whole idea, huh? My passport&#8217;s due for renewal soon &#8211; and I do NOT want to get one with a chip in it.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat after me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RFID passports do not make us any safer.<\/li>\n<li>RFID passports are not really any harder to counterfeit<\/li>\n<li>RFID passports are not inherently more secure<\/li>\n<li>RFID passports are a bad idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Repeat that 600 more times. Then write it down 600 times. Then mail it to your representatives (all of them).<\/p>\n<p>Well? What are you waiting for? Get to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case there was any doubt that this whole digital passport \/ RFID passport thing was never about security (via Slashdot): &#8220;New microchip passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft failed the test when a researcher was able to manipulate one in minutes. The cloned passports were accepted as genuine by the computer software&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/08\/11\/microchip-rfid-passport-cloned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microchip (RFID) Passport Cloned<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[26,66],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-technology","tag-security","tag-slashdot","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-kD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":250,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/22\/schneier-on-security-rfid-passports\/","url_meta":{"origin":1279,"position":0},"title":"Schneier on Security: RFID Passports","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Another article about the RFID passport \"idea.\" Schneier is right on - it's a BAD idea.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":251,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/22\/rfid-tags-in-us-passports\/","url_meta":{"origin":1279,"position":1},"title":"RFID tags in US Passports","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There's absolutely NO reason to implant an RFID chip in your passport - the claims of \"oh it helps security, we can tell it was issued by the government\" isn't even on thin ice, it's just plain crap. Imbed a chip, okay - but don't make it readable by an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":596,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/08\/11\/rfid-passport-security-revisited\/","url_meta":{"origin":1279,"position":2},"title":"RFID Passport Security Revisited","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"What? The government might be doing something RIGHT?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/08\/19\/no-fly-list-keeps-infants-off-planes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1279,"position":3},"title":"&#8216;No-fly list&#8217; keeps infants off planes","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I understand that security is important,\" Zapolsky said. \"But if they're just guessing, and we have to give up our passport to prove that our 11-month-old is not a terrorist, it's a waste of their time.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1174,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/06\/13\/your-papers-please-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1279,"position":4},"title":"Your Papers, Please (Part 2)","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Bruce Schneier's blog - the TSA has a new photo ID requirement: Beginning Saturday, June 21, 2008 passengers that willfully refuse to provide identification at security checkpoint will be denied access to the secure area of airports. This change will apply exclusively to individuals that simply refuse to provide\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":270,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/08\/slashdotrfid-drivers-licenses-debated\/","url_meta":{"origin":1279,"position":5},"title":"Slashdot:RFID Drivers&#8217; Licenses Debated","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd be all for the idea of universal ID if it weren't for the fact that our government is INCOMPETENT when it comes to doing these sorts of things PROPERLY, never mind the fact that I wouldn't trust them with that kind of power\/information in the first place.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}