Australia’s RFID Passport Turns 1!
We should all send little Johnny and Alexander a card to celebrate the first birthday of Australian passports containing RFID chips.
In anticipation of this event, Bruce Schneier has a nice little article extolling the virtues of RFID chips in passports. Speaking about US passports:
If you have a passport, now is the time to renew it — even if it’s not set to expire anytime soon. If you don’t have a passport and think you might need one, now is the time to get it. In many countries, including the United States, passports will soon be equipped with RFID chips. And you don’t want one of these chips in your passport.
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By itself, this is no problem. But RFID chips don’t have to be plugged in to a reader to operate. Like the chips used for automatic toll collection on roads or automatic fare collection on subways, these chips operate via proximity. The risk to you is the possibility of surreptitious access: Your passport information might be read without your knowledge or consent by a government trying to track your movements, a criminal trying to steal your identity or someone just curious about your citizenship.
If you need to find out if your passport contains an RFID chip these images should help. The little logo (”gold international ePassport symbol”) on the cover is an international standard identifying passports with RFID chips.
I’m not seeing many virtues extolled
Trent
1 Nov 06 at 11:51 am
[...] Further to my RFID post from a couple of weeks ago, a European research group has found serious flaws in RFID passport implementations. By failing to implement an appropriate security architecture, European governments have effectively forced citizens to adopt new international Machine Readable Travel Documents which dramatically decrease their security and privacy and increases risk of identity theft. Simply put, the current implementation of the European passport utilises technologies and standards that are poorly conceived for its purpose. In this declaration, researchers on Identity and Identity Management (supported by a unanimous move in the September 2006 Budapest meeting of the FIDIS “Future of Identity in the Information Society†Network of Excellence[1]) summarise findings from an analysis of MRTDs and recommend corrective measures which need to be adopted by stakeholders in governments and industry to ameliorate outstanding issues. [...]
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