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- The Advantages of FRAM-Based Smart ICs for Next Generation Government Electronic IDs
- Electronic versions of passports and other government-issued identification documents use an Integrated Circuit IC or chip to establish a digital link between the holder and personal biometric information, such as a digitized photo, fingerprint or iris image. Designed to enhance border, physical and IT security, electronic chips ensure that the...
- Tags: Integrated Circuit, E-passport, Passport, Government, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-27
- First cloned passports, then bombs, and now ATM fraud: Security problems should plague RFID's future
- First, it took hackers barely two weeks to clone the new RFID-based passports. Wrote Wired of the situation:Grunwald says it took him only two weeks to figure out how to clone the passport chip. Most of that time he spent reading the standards for e-passports that are posted on a...
- Tags: passport, RFID
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- Researchers: E-passports pose security risk
- Researchers: E-passports pose security riskAnd WHO was it that thought......RFID technology was actually a [i]good[/i] idea???You just HAD to know that once Wal*Mart started singing the praises of RFID it was immediately doomed to mediocrity.In a word:Whoops!!Dotso.com techs pointing to this story ...Found numerous channels pointing to similar story in...
- Tags: bar code, encryption, security, e-passport, RFID, passport
- Discussion threads 2006-08-05
- U.S. moves closer to e-passports
- U.S. moves closer to e-passportsPlease remove the tinfoil hat before blogging....Hint - this is not the former Soviet Union. The US (well, okay, maybe the Peoples Republic of Cambridge, but that is a different story anyway) does not require internal passports to move about from city to city, let...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Next IT, passport, chip, e-passport
- Discussion threads 2004-10-25
- E-passports to put new face on old documents
- E-passports to put new face on old documentsWhy???Let me guess: to stop "terrorism"? Whatever. Even if real terrorism did exist, this would do virtually nothing to stop it. But this would be a great way to begin deceptively introducing Big Brother. Big Brother will not be thrust upon us by...
- Tags: Homeland security, passport, terror, antennae, e-passport
- Discussion threads 2004-08-18
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- BabyMaker (exe)
- No need to wait for nine months to see your baby! The science of fortune telling is brought to perfection with BabyMaker. Just put pictures of you two into BabyMaker, and see what your baby will look like in just a moment. Impress your friends and family with 'what if'...
- Tags: Baby, Luxand Development
- Software downloads 2008-08-29
- TSA vendor finds lost laptop, remains suspended
- Travelers who use the Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program might be verified as good security risks but the same can't be said about Steven Brill's Verified Identity Pass, one of the TSA vendors that operates the program. VIP, under the brand name Clear, lost a laptop containing...
- Tags: transportation security administration, laptop computer, vip, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack
- Graham Tibbetts of the UK Telegraph is reporting that the British Foreign Office has admitted to losing around 3,000 passports and visa stickers, which were stolen on their way from Manchester to RAF Northolt in London, where they were to be sent to British embassies. From the article: Officials...
- Tags: Passport, Van, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Iomega eGo Camo portable hard drive (250GB, camo)
- The $149 250GB Iomega eGo Camo external hard drive is built extra tough to withstand the rigors of transportation and daily use. The ruggedized styling, low cost, and average transfer speeds make this an ideal choice for someone that tends to plays rough with their electronics. Once Iomega adds an...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Iomega eGo, Iomega Corp., Iomega eGo Camo, hard drive
- Product reviews 2008-07-11
- Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive
- The $180 320GB Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (HDDR320E03X) is the second drive from Toshiba we've reviewed bearing the Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive name. The design has been updated in this new version, but unfortunately, the performance remains just as uninspiring as the original's....
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Backups, Operating systems, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive, Toshiba USB, external hard drive, hard drive
- Product reviews 2008-07-07
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive (250GB, Brown)
- The 250GB brown leather is a classy refresh of their eGo external hard drives. Last year, we reviewed the 160GB Cherry Red version for $130. This new eGo gets an aesthetic upgrade and 110 more gigs of space for just $20 more. If you like the look and feel of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, hard drive, Iomega eGo, Iomega Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-07-02
- Maxtor Black Armor
- We're not surprised to see the Maxtor Black Armor emerge in a time when so much confidential data is transported by external hard drives. The 10GB Black Armor drive ($150) is a portable storage device with built-in Advanced Encryption Standard hardware-based encryption to prevent digital theft. Unfortunately, this added security...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), traveler mode, Black Armor, Maxtor Corp., password
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- The most comprehensive police database: Facebook
- Over the last few decades, police intelligence gets better through technological means. Before they used pen and paper, and the only way to cross reference files was by means of filing. Nowadays with specific databases for different crimes - the PND, ViSOR, the UK DNA database, ANCHORY, FBI Guardian, and...
- Tags: Facebook, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- Bluetooth Passport Standard for XP (exe)
- Bluetooth Passport is designed to implement proximity login and steps away lock for Windows. Using a Bluetooth device, such as a cell phone or a PDA, you can logon to Windows without inputting user name and password manually. For Bluetooth Passport is based short-range wireless technique, it different from some...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Bluetooth Application Lab, Bluetooth Passport, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Software downloads 2008-06-11
- Bluetooth Passport Standard for Vista (exe)
- Bluetooth Passport is designed to implement proximity login and steps away lock for Windows. Using a Bluetooth device, such as a cell phone or a PDA, you can login Windows without inputting user name and password manually. For Bluetooth Passport is based short-range wireless technique, it different from some other...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Bluetooth Application Lab, Bluetooth Passport, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Software downloads 2008-06-11
- Microsoft CardSpace killed before it really began?
- According to Neowin, computing students at the University of Bochum, Germany, have worked out how to retrieve vital security tokens from Microsoft's CardSpace framework. CardSpace is highly tipped to be the successor to Windows Live ID Passport and making passwords a relic of the Cold War, using self-signed or certificate...
- Tags: DNS, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Security Token, Microsoft Corp., Domain Names, Digital Security, Security, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Globalization's discontents
- I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is positively affluent. People are poor, but the roads are filled with cars, the stores are filled...
- Tags: Immigrant, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Globalization, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- What is the U.S. doing about security?
- I've been terrible busy lately. Hopefully you all here haven't noticed, as I've been working hard to still keep my posts flowing, but I've just got time to catch up with several blogs that I read often. One of those blogs is the Emergent Chaos blog...
- Tags: Card, Database, President, Blog, Passport Card, RFID, Government, Security, Wireless, Biometrics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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