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How To Disable Your Passport's RFID Chip

unbob - 12-27-2006 at 08:06 PM

Here's a way to prevent hackers from grabbing your personal data ... http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=9

capt. mike - 12-28-2006 at 05:48 AM

huh??!!
i just received my new passport, both of us actually. so what's the deal here? there's an alien implant on this some whare's??!!

Bob and Susan - 12-28-2006 at 06:26 AM

and you don't think "they" are not installing it in your "jet" RIGHT NOW???:tumble:

Stickers - 12-28-2006 at 06:43 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by unbob
Here's a way to prevent hackers from grabbing your personal data ... http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=9


"Tampering with a passport is punishable by 25 years in prison."

What's up unbob, I don't think my personal data is worth 25 years in prison. I wish I was that interesting.



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Bob and Susan - 12-28-2006 at 07:01 AM

These are federal felonies.
Penalties are: (these are MAX)

10 years (for a first offense if not tied to terrorism or drug trafficking)
15 years for fraud with other criminal links
20 years for fraud related to drug trafficking
25 years for fraud related to international terrorism

i wouldn't crush it with a hammer...
i like to cross the border fast!!!
but....
10 years in a federal prison....let's see....

just think...your "cell partner" asks "why are you in"....
answer "I crushed my passport with a hammer"

guess what happens to YOU!!!:lol:

Taco de Baja - 12-28-2006 at 08:10 AM

I wonder if wrapping the passport in aluminum foil will also work?

It sure help stop the government from reading my thoughts when I put on my aluminum hat.....:lol:

Worried about Big Bro ?

MrBillM - 12-28-2006 at 10:04 AM

Once the new Passports become common I'm sure that some enterprising vendor will bring out a metallic holder for passports that will defeat the RFID. All of YOU people who are consumed with concern that the Feds may know Where you're at or Where you've been can rush out and make the vendor wealthy.

In the meantime, follow TdB's lead and carry aluminum foil.

So far, at least in the last Thirty years or more, I haven't been anywhere or done anything that I'm worried the Government will find out about. I guess I just lead a dull life.

comitan - 12-28-2006 at 10:38 AM

Bill

You have no worries as long as we have a Right wing, Conservative Gov.:O:O

[Edited on 12-28-2006 by comitan]

No Worries, Mate !

MrBillM - 12-28-2006 at 10:46 AM

I have Nothing to Worry about Because I'm not doing ANYTHING that would cause me to fear the Government's knowledge.

Since your theory is that I, and by extension those honest and upstanding citizens like me, have nothing to fear as long a we have a Conservative Government, the logical conclusion would be that we DO have reason to worry if the Liberals take charge. Thanks for the confirmation.

wornout - 12-28-2006 at 12:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MrBillM
......All of YOU people who are consumed with concern that the Feds may know Where you're at or Where you've been can rush out and make the vendor wealthy.......


Personally, I am glad the government knows where the people are that are worried about the government knowing where they are. I sleep easier at night.

I would also like to be around when someone with a defeated RFI passport chip tries to go somewhere out or back in to the USA. They will be the ones screaming the most as their silly butts are being dragged off for 25 years of early retirement.

oxxo - 12-28-2006 at 01:56 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MrBillM
Since your theory is that I have nothing to fear as long a we have a Conservative Government, the logical conclusion would be that we DO have reason to worry if the Liberals take charge.


I have a greater fear and worry for my personal safety and security since that numbskull and his administration have been in power. Evidently, President Ford - rest his soul - felt the same way too.

Cypress - 12-28-2006 at 02:13 PM

I'm very proud to hold a passport ID'ing me as a citizen of the USA.:bounce: Who wouldn't?:o Steal my identity thru some sort of bar code/chip?:yes:Assume my debts and pay my bills etc.:bounce:

Bajabus - 12-28-2006 at 09:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MrBillM
I have Nothing to Worry about Because I'm not doing ANYTHING that would cause me to fear the Government's knowledge.



Yeah, that's what that last guy from Canada that came thru a USA airport in NY thought before they shipped him off to be tortured in Syria. A year later...opps sorry we made a mistake.......:O

Bob and Susan - 12-29-2006 at 06:25 AM

bajabus....

we'll be there later...prepare:lol:

unbob - 1-3-2007 at 10:52 AM

It seems some posters here are missing the point - this isn't about "hiding" our personal data from the govt - it's about preventing identity theft by criminals!

Here's some more articles on this topic by Bruce Schneier, a well-known and respected internet security guru:

Renew Your Passport Now!

Hackers Clone RFID Passports

Cloning RFID Passports in Five Minutes

FID Passport Security Revisited

The Security of RFID Passports

OK then...

Dave - 1-3-2007 at 05:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Stickers
"Tampering with a passport is punishable by 25 years in prison."


Have someone else hit it with a hammer.

Frank - 1-3-2007 at 05:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Cypress
I'm very proud to hold a passport ID'ing me as a citizen of the USA.:bounce: Who wouldn't?:o Steal my identity thru some sort of bar code/chip?:yes:Assume my debts and pay my bills etc.:bounce:


:lol: Sometimes I dont even want to be me :biggrin:

Mike Supino - 1-3-2007 at 10:08 PM

Is tax evasion a reason not to get a new passport? Even if I'm living illeagaly in BCS?

unbob - 1-8-2007 at 11:10 PM

Okay, here's another solution ...
http://difrwear.com/