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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
- e-passport flaws
- Researchers warn of potentially serious risksRadio frequency identification tags in passports may make it possible to determine from a distance whether somebody is carrying a passport and even tell the nationality of a passport holder. Taken to an extreme, such identification could make it possible to detonate explosives only when...
- Tags: SECURITY, e-passport
- Videos 2006-08-08
- 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
- Photos: The new face of e-passports
- The U.K. has started issuing e-passports while the U.S. tests its own plan.
- Tags: e-passport, U.K., U.S.
- Image galleries 2006-07-20
- Photos: The new face of e-passports
- The U.K. has started issuing e-passports while the U.S. tests its own plan.
- Tags: e-passport, U.K., U.S.
- Image galleries 2006-02-21
- Photos: The new face of e-passports
- The U.K. has started issuing e-passports while the U.S. tests its own plan.
- Tags: e-passport, U.K., U.S.
- Image galleries 2006-02-21
- Second test for e-passports
- This week starts Homeland Security's second test of e-passports, this time at San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney airports, News.com reports. "This test provides an important opportunity to work with our international...
- Tags: e-passport
- Blog posts 2006-01-16
- e-passport test takes flight
- E-passport test takes flightFortress AmerikaClosing the borders like a good Big Brother. The fact that the federal government has been caught blatantly lying about just about everything having to do with terrorism (and pretty much everything else) should be enough for everyone not to trust them at all anymore. The...
- Tags: Federal government, e-passport, McAlhany, phone, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2006-01-13
- U.S. pushes back Europe's e-passport deadline
- U.S. pushes back Europe's e-passport deadlineLike cattle to the slaughterWhy should the rest of the world have to pay for American officials' incompetence? 9/11 was completely preventable (pretending or assuming that it was an attack from outside, from Islamic terrorists) in more ways than one, and now everyone else but...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Homeland security, SECURITY, e-passport, biometrics, terrorism, Rumsfeld, Osama bin Laden, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2005-06-15
- U.S. taps Entrust for e-passports
- U.S. taps Entrust for e-passportsHere we go![i]"Some privacy groups oppose the introduction of e-passports because the chips wirelessly transmit personal information to special receivers via radio signal. They fear anyone with the right equipment could scan a crowd for Americans, making them targets for attack or surveillance."[/i]Precisely what is going...
- Tags: e-passport, Entrust Technologies
- Discussion threads 2005-05-18
- 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
- e-passports are nothing to smile about
- E-passports are nothing to smile aboutLet's get it over with.Tattoo everyone's forehead and implant an RFID chip and be done with it. I am certain that would tickle everyone. NOT!!!All your face are belong to us... (NT)...Come sit in my doctor;s chair Bit....I have a drill and...
- Tags: e-passport
- Discussion threads 2004-08-06
Additional Resources
- Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live Mesh
- Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live MeshOh yeah, I can just see the data breaches...in the cloud. :)I agree - the companies that blend will seea better result. Especially the ones that require a disconnected view. It will be fun to see what happens.RE: Gillmor: Why Google...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Desktops, Digital media, Google Documents, Google Inc., Live Mesh, Gillmor, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- To chip or not to chip
- To chip or not to chipNone question...I will *NEVER* let one of these be implanted into me. Its just another sign that the government has overstepped it bounds. I was mad enough about RFID chips in my passport, but actual implants? Never...RE: To chip or not to chipWhy do you...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, chip
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Follow up on .edu blogs
- Last week, I posted a blog on the Pickering Institute's efforts to sell blogs with a .edu top level domain ("Shut down pi.edu"). Yesterday, Ars Technica posted a new article with some updates and additional information on the demise of the $50 .edu blogs. As the Ars article...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?
- Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?Wow then why is Microsoft even doing an whitepaper?Because it's obvious that you have all the answers. What's stunning is that you have all the answers yet none of this is done. Bottom line: This proposal is complicated....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., identity, End-to-End trust vision, stack thing work, thing work, software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Dr. Bott T3 USB 2.0 hub
- If you use a lot of USB devices (heck, two) with a MacBook Air, a hub is a necessity. The MBA has a single USB port which can give fits to people that need more. The problems with hubs is that they can be bulky and some require a separate...
- Tags: Hub, T3, USB, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Enter the socialprise
- According to Coase's theory of The Nature of the Firm, enterprises form to avoid the transaction costs of buying services or other inputs from other organizations. But that was in 1937. Modern communications, in particular the Web, have reduced the friction costs of doing business with outsiders at the same...
- Tags: Web, Network, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
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