Re: Faux security with the DHS border crossing card

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:42:05 EDT, "Richard M. Smith" said:
> This is totally unbelievable.  DHS is knowingly going with an RFID
> technology that is insecure and clonable by the bad guys.  What is the DHS
> thinking?

We've known since DHS was set up what they were thinking - it's an amazing
combination of 37 herbs and spices^W^W^Wdifferent federal agencies, and their
mandate is to *look* like we're doing something about security, rather than
provide *actual* security.

Providing *actual* security is both (a) too complicated for that agency and
(b) would throw a major harpoon into the Administration's attempts to play
the terror card to justify any actions they want to take.

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