Arphid Watch: Predictable Passport Mayhem

"Public education urged over misguided e-passport worries"Public concern continues to grow about the security of the new e-passports the US government is to begin issuing to its citizens next month, according to ABI Research, which believes that the Department of Homeland Security should now speak out to reassure the public about the safety of the contactless technologies at the heart of the electronic travel documents."There are uneducated claims being made by some privacy advocates. They make claims such as "if you have a contactless chip in your passport the government can track you everywhere and they'll know everything about you" - which of course is simply... (((etc etc blather etc)))Full story: http://www.usingrfid.com/news/read.asp?lc=z37739ix782zh(((Boys, "public education" isn't going to help you when e-passports are being publicly cracked like a bowl of walnuts. You're coming across like a bunch of tobacco lawyers who say, "oh well, they must have lit the cigarette from the filter end.")))https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71521-0.html?tw=rss.index