Re: U.S. National Identity Card (RFID) Coming in 2008

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From: Jon von Leipzig
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:03

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>>The RFID Hacking Underground
>>http://tinyurl.com/s4dl8
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>>They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even 
>>clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the 
>>RFID-hacking underground.
>>
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>>"We believe the new US passport is probably vulnerable to a brute-force 
>>attack," he says. "The encryption keys in them will depend on passport 
>>numbers and birth dates. Because these have a certain degree of structure 
>>and guessability, we estimate that the effective key length is at most 52 
>>bits. A special key-cracking machine could probably break a passport key 
>>of this length in 10 minutes."
> 
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> so we should keep our passports wrapped in foil.  :) 
> 

Not so funny....if ya know what we're bein' set up for.....
today, your passport, tomorrow...brain implants...
<Frugal workaround>


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From: Jon von Leipzig <Jonl@myday.com>
Newsgroups: alt.consumers,ba.consumers,misc.consumers,misc.consumers.frugal-living
Subject: Re: U.S. National Identity Card (RFID) Coming in 2008
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 18:03:18 -0400
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