http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/ Engadget Comments for Scaremongers dub RFID passports as potential bomb trigger http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Aug 18th 2006 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Aug 18th 2006 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/
b) The primary reason "terrorists" don't set up bombs to detonate when bluetooth walks by, is that it isn't so specifically targetted as one nation's passport. It wouldn't bode well for their cause if they start blowing up their own people who happen to meander by while on the cell.

c) A tech blog, of all places, should recognize the inevitability of country codes being hacked, stolen, sold, or inadvertantly posted for everyone to see. While these guys are surely getting in on the hype, this is a very real threat (if not immediately).]]>Aug 18th 2006 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Aug 18th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/
Frankly, I'm not one to waste my time being scared by this stuff anyway. I'm more likely to get hit and killed by a drunk driver on the way home from partying tonight than I am to get blown up by a terrorist.]]>Aug 18th 2006 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Aug 18th 2006 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Aug 18th 2006 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/-Taylor]]>Aug 18th 2006 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/

just kidding, theyre harmless. honestly linking rfid passports and terrorist bombs is ridiculous. now dell laptop batteries and terrorist bombs, theres the real threat!]]>Aug 18th 2006 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/
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My point is there's no reason to fear what is pretty much a high-tech barcode, used in the same basic way a barcode is used.]]>Aug 18th 2006 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/
some folks spend too much time watching 24!

grow up]]>Aug 18th 2006 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/
]]>Aug 19th 2006 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/u should start a dumb level system instead of the threat level system.. :P]]>Aug 19th 2006 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/
Anyway, though as of right now, I wouldn't consider this a huge threat. But as a concept of what this new technology could be exploited to do... well this definitley seems plausible and scary. Now, I still like to hold the fact that I am more likely to die from falling off the bed then from a plane crash - but still, a hackable technology where your killed just based on your country information or such just seem incredibly scary.

But as mentioned, couldn't there be a feature (now I haven't honestly researched RFID that much so maybe there already is or something) where when you close your passport, it doesn't transmit any information?]]>Aug 19th 2006 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Aug 19th 2006 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Aug 19th 2006 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/dutch_biometric_passport_crack/) regardless of the built in shielding. ]]>Aug 23rd 2006 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/scaremongers-dub-rfid-passports-as-potential-bomb-trigger/Jun 5th 2007 5:26AM