Video shows that ePassports can selectively detonate explosives for Americans only

[Marksix]

I have previously posted a thread on ID Cards Coming to America as a warning to you against this threat to all our liberties these device represent. ID cards are still part of the UK government policy and are linked to e-passports which are being introduced to American citizens later this year.

ePassports contain RFID readers which our governments claim reduce or eliminate the risk of “bad people” gaining access to our countries as they are totally secure and also can’t be forged. This is a lie.

I will demonstrate here how:

1/ your passport can be used to selectively trigger an improvised explosive device specifically targeted at Americans

video shows that ePassports can detonate explosives
http://www.flexilis.com/epassport.html
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XXaqraF7pI

2/ how your ePassport can be cloned.

“Hackers Clone E-Passports”
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71521-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2


ID cards that the UK government want to impose can be read from much greater distances and are even more vulnerable to hacking and identity theft. This supports the position that ID cards and “the database state” are devices of mass surveillance – nothing more, nothing less. Of course if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear…..

[ablarc]

Of course if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear…..
Is it OK to want to hide your MasterCard number?

[Marksix]

Is it OK to want to hide your MasterCard number?

best policy is to put it on here together with your pin #

[Ninjahedge]

best policy is to put it on here together with your pin #

Personal Identification Number Number?

Maybe they should just make these things, if they do make them, active rather than passive. that they would only be able to be scanned if YOU turn them on, or hit a button, like agarage door opener rather than an EZ-Pass(port).

[Marksix]

Personal Identification Number Number?

Maybe they should just make these things, if they do make them, active rather than passive. that they would only be able to be scanned if YOU turn them on, or hit a button, like agarage door opener rather than an EZ-Pass(port).

yup PIN is Personal ID number. RFID tags will become ubiquitous over time, nowhere more so than the airline industry where they will be used in tickets and baggage tags once the price becomes low enough. ICAO already has standards drawn up. They are unique because they are passive until powered up by the reader/scanner - that's their USP.

One of your greatest fraudsters, Frank Abagnale reckons credit cards are OK to use, nor 'cos they can't be cloned or stolen but that if they are, it's the issuers liability more than yours.

He also gives ID cards no more than six months before they are comprehensively hacked.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4754733.stm

[Ninjahedge]

yup PIN is Personal ID number.

Re-read it Mr. Smarty Pants.. ;)

You said PIN #, like ATM Machine (Automatic Teller Machine Machine) it is a bit redundant...

http://www.wordexplorations.info/pleonasm.html for some more..... :D


RFID tags will become ubiquitous over time, nowhere more so than the airline industry where they will be used in tickets and baggage tags once the price becomes low enough. ICAO already has standards drawn up. They are unique because they are passive until powered up by the reader/scanner - that's their USP.

That is SORT of what is needed, although I would say that they are needed to be kept passive until the owner activates them, not a 3rd party.

Ones that are applied to bags at check-in could be active scans, but the one that you carry with you should only be scanned when and where you want it to be, not at the whim of anyone on a streetcorner with the right equipment.

I think this poses a greater risk to personal freedom and ID than to a terrorist orginization making smart carbombs (A martyr costs less than the electronics needed for this, I believe).


One of your greatest fraudsters, Frank Abagnale reckons credit cards are OK to use, nor 'cos they can't be cloned or stolen but that if they are, it's the issuers liability more than yours.

He also gives ID cards no more than six months before they are comprehensively hacked.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4754733.stm


Um, DUH!

The whole thing about ID cards is that you need a central database to make it so that they check and match. In order to make it so that the cards would work hacked, you would also have to hack into the NDB and change the details (such as photo) so that they would match the person holding the card.

If it were a self-contained unit, I agree, those can and will be hacked.