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no RFID chips in new US Passports
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:21:02 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Alexandros Labrinidis <labrinid () cs pitt edu> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:44:19 -0500 To: <dave () farber net> Subject: [for IP] no RFID chips in new US Passports instead the passports will have "contactless chips." :-) for IP, if you wish. best regards, alex ----- RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment [WIRED News, March 29, 2005] Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S. government will not use radio-frequency identification tags in the passports it issues to millions of Americans in the coming years. Instead, the government will use "contactless chips." The distinction is part of an effort by the Department of Homeland Security and one of its RFID suppliers, Philips Semiconductors, to brand RFID tags in identification documents as "proximity chips," "contactless chips" or "contactless integrated circuits" -- anything but "RFID." The Homeland Security Department is playing word games to dodge the privacy debate raging over RFID tags, which will eventually replace bar-code labels on consumer goods, said privacy rights advocates this week. .... Full story at http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67025,00.html _____________________________________________________________________ Alexandros Labrinidis | web: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~labrinid Assistant Professor | email: labrinid () cs pitt edu Dept of Computer Science | office: 6105 Sennott Square University of Pittsburgh | phone: 412-624-8843 ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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