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U.S. passport information a piece of cake to steal

February 4, 2009

A hacker with $250 of easy-to-obtain equipment drove around San Francisco grabbing users’ personal information from passports and drivers’ licenses equipped with soon-to-be-mandatory radio-frequency identification (RFID) cihps.
The government has been pushing for tagging most identification with RFID chips, claiming it would be impossible or unlikely for hackers to do just what Chris Paget did with [...]

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Credit card industry kills Mythbusters attempt to examine RFID security

August 30, 2008

Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities | Boing Boing

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