[Final Authority]

An RFID passport or other electronic document would be transported in a Faraday envelope to prevent other readers from polling it. Such a controlled device would, as an RFID document would have, a IFF protocol as well. Not just any document reader could poll it unless it is authorized.

Your fears are unfounded.

[discostu]

And if worse comes to worse you could always degause the thing, that's what I did when they put magnetic strips on our drivers licenses, taped it to my computer monitor for a couple of days and hit the degause button every hour or so. Just to make the cops actually type.

[Centurion2000]

Faraday envelope

Where can I get or build one of these ? Thanks.

[zeugma]

I'm sure everyone will keep their passports in metal containers when not presenting them to customs folks. </sarcasm>

Like most of other things the government does, they don't seem to have thought this idea through very well.

[RS]

"An RFID passport or other electronic document would be transported in a Faraday envelope to prevent other readers from polling it."


Cool - a tin foil hat for my passport !

( I prefer the smart card route myself )