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ZDNet agrees with me RFID passports are Stupid & Risky

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Panic + stupid = RFID passports

In 9/11’s aftermath panic ruled the nation’s domestic security bureaucracies, Congress and the White House. Paranoid mid-level bureaucrats were given free rein to “innovate” and guess what popped up? RFID tags in your passport.

And now they are adding them to driver’s licenses too.

via RFID passports: a tragedy waiting to happen | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

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Written by Barbara K. Iverson

July 16th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

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