Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license?

http://wnd.com ^ | February 28, 2009 | By Bob Unruh

[Lucky9teen]

Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies simply by walking through the assembly.

The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips in driver's licenses, or "enhanced driver's licenses."

"Enhanced driver's licenses give confidence that the person holding the card is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it's less elaborate than REAL ID," Napolitano said in a Washington Times report.

REAL ID is a plan for a federal identification system standardized across the nation that so alarmed governors many states have adopted formal plans to oppose it. However, a privacy advocate today told WND that the EDLs are many times worse.

Radio talk show host and identity chip expert Katherine Albrecht said REAL ID earned the opposition of Christians because of its resemblance to the biblical "mark of the beast," civil libertarians opposed it for its "big brother" connotations and others worried about identity theft issues with the proposed databases.

"We got rid of the REAL ID program, but [this one] is way more insidious," she said.

Enhanced driver's licenses have built-in radio chips providing an identifying number or information that can be accessed by a remote reading unit while the license is inside a wallet or purse.

The technology already had been implemented in Washington state, where it is promoted as an alternative to a passport for traveling to Canada. So far, the program is optional.

But there are other agreements already approved with Michigan, Vermont, New York and Arizona, and plans are under way in other states, including Texas, she said.

[Lucky9teen]

Um.....no way...

They have a poll, but you have to have a WND account.
http://forums.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=344

[Orange1998]

Texas on the list???? Geezz

[DTogo]

But of course these enhanced drivers licenses will not be required to vote...

[raybbr]

Imagine if they were all wrapped in aluminum foil? The jackboots would walk through the crowd and be stumped.

[NewJerseyJoe]

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2006/01/weapons_the_rfi.html

http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/10/08/rfid-zapper

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/static/r/f/i/RFID-Zapper(EN)_77f3.html

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Eggs Ackley my thoughts too! Faraday wallets!

[libsmacker75]

Sadly, this is but one of many initiatives Hussein and his high-tech Islamo-Stalinists are contemplating.

This is not the system I swore to defend and protect. We need a U.S. Franco to sweep away the liberal fascist vermin and their s**t.

[Kimmers]

This is for our own good, to protect us from all things evil.......... and the sheeple will think it is a good idea....

This scares the you know what out of me....

[unkus]

What about putting the drivers licence in the microwave for 5 seconds?

[libsmacker75]

And if you’re caught doing it Hussein Obongo and his thugs will put YOU in a microwave oven.

[dmcnash]

Faraday wallets are already available.

My favorite is the baseball cap as it is less obvious than regular tin foil hats.

[Viking2002]

A good, old-fashioned bulk eraser, just like DJ's used to use in radio stations. Zap it with EM for a few seconds. It'll depolarize the whole thing and render it inert.

[phoenix07]

I gotta wonder how stupid thinks it’s easier to make sure the person holding the license is the person the license belongs to. Unless there’s a matching chip embedded in the person, there’s no way to ensure the right person has the right license. Napolitano is a dummie..........

[randog]

Enhanced driver's licenses have built-in radio chips providing an identifying number or information that can be accessed by a remote reading unit while the license is inside a wallet or purse.

What they're trying to say is that they can read your driver's license without your permission. They could just use bar codes like some states already do, but then they'd have to ask the license owner permission to read their card. Protest and the state will give you their pat answer, "well, don't get one then". This will last as long as it takes for someone to hack the RFIDs.

[unkus]

Where can a bulk eraser be found?
After the deed is done, it would be best just to plead ignorant.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Oh yes way.

Compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies? You Betcha. They will do this. They have to have full control. No fight. No guns. No freedom. No jobs.

And they accuse the right of being the “no” party?

[mewzilla]

ERASETRACK™ BULK ERASER U5000

We can take up a collection :)

[silverleaf]

as long as they become required to cast a vote- I’m in

If not, stuff them

[holyscroller]

In Washington State, not only does the enhanced lkicense have the radio antella, your photo is also one of the new biometic ID varieties. Anybody know any ways to render them useless?

[upchuck]

Damn RFID chips... always getting burned up and becoming non-functional. Damn!