If You Think Your RFID Passport Is Secure, Think Again
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From: Kurt Ullman on 13 Dec 2009 07:49 In article <7ojr7cF3pkartU1(a)mid.individual.net>, "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > As I've already said, what is available in the passport is insufficient on > its own so you have to search this database anyway. Thus starting at the > directory is equivalent to starting with the passport info. > Nope. Because with the passport information you are looking for one specific person. Otherwise you are essentially looking at random individuals in the database. Assuming you are not just hanging out at the airport, cruiseline, hotel, etc, and grabbing everything as it goes past. Even then, you have some idea of the general demographics of the person you are targeting based on where you are harvesting. -- To find that place where the rats don't race and the phones don't ring at all. If once, you've slept on an island. Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"
From: Mxsmanic on 13 Dec 2009 09:35 tim.... writes: > You can't get a social security number from a passport either (on the very > simple basis that 90% of the world doesn't have them) U.S. passports included Social Security numbers, last time I looked (it has been a while, though, and I don't know if they are also encoded on the chip).
From: Kurt Ullman on 13 Dec 2009 10:08 In article <gru9i5dg3r8s3o3lhht5rsfp0gqc4o73tv(a)4ax.com>, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > tim.... writes: > > > You can't get a social security number from a passport either (on the very > > simple basis that 90% of the world doesn't have them) > > U.S. passports included Social Security numbers, last time I looked (it has > been a while, though, and I don't know if they are also encoded on the chip). My current one doesn't and the one I got in '91 did not. The application has a spot, but that appears only for the use of the IRS. -- To find that place where the rats don't race and the phones don't ring at all. If once, you've slept on an island. Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"
From: Mxsmanic on 13 Dec 2009 10:46 Kurt Ullman writes: > My current one doesn't and the one I got in '91 did not. Look at the string of digits printed across the bottom.
From: Kurt Ullman on 13 Dec 2009 10:52
In article <n23ai5lugukra3mmg48hhsretc0g6pq94k(a)4ax.com>, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Kurt Ullman writes: > > > My current one doesn't and the one I got in '91 did not. > > Look at the string of digits printed across the bottom. My new one doesn't, I still can't find my old one. -- To find that place where the rats don't race and the phones don't ring at all. If once, you've slept on an island. Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island" |