Microchipped passports, ID, License, etc..

[blm]

What are your views?

I don't agree with it at all. It constinously transmits an RF signal that gives your were abouts at all times.

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.
It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker's gold.
Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" the identifiers of four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet.

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Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears - Yahoo! News

[Shibby]

I think the chip thing is a good idea if it couldn't be picked up by random receivers. Like if airports had and exclusive reader but I know that can still be hacked. Maybe some way to turn the passport "on" before it can be read. Like using a finger to make an electric connection...

[Bouncer]

dont like it.

[mofo]

kind of reminds me of how cool retinal scanners would be if they were used instead of IDs and such but then the whole "big/little brother" thing comes to mind and i just freak out. not to mention the amount of money required to not only create enough for the residents of the US but the man-power to create it. i like my good ol' license and SSN.


i feel the government is fueling the fire they started. they came up with child support, unemployment and disability but they consistently fail to follow up on the claims people make. to "keep track" of people, they developed the SSN to assign a file to everyone. but they don't really make sure that the file is matching up to the right person. so you have people who are named after their father claiming their dead dad's social security for months and years because the lady sitting in the SS office has the file on the back burner. so to counter the thefts already happening, the gov't will divulge more non-existent funds into a technology that makes it easier for not only themselves but for the thieves already out there.