Could the New U.S. RFID Passports Trigger a Bomb?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via ABC News.

[snip]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expected to issue 13
million passports this year. And one group of security experts says the
American passports could be used as potential bomb triggers.

The new e-passports, fitted with radio frequency identification, or
RFID, tags for wireless processing when people pass through Customs,
will be issued for the first time this week, starting at the Aurora,
Colo., Passport Agency.

But experts at Flexilis, a Los Angeles RFID security firm, argue that
the digital document could be used to set off a bomb. An e-passport
containing stolen RFID tag data need not even come in contact with the
bomb trigger. It only has to be nearby.

[snip]

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2319734

- ferg


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