Submitted Comments
1605 From Figg N, 04 April 2005, 06:09:12 PM PST
you created this world of paranoia,so deal with it, maybe if you dealt with people in a more diplomatic way and treated people in a more humane way we wouldnt be subjugated to your attacks against our liberties in the land of the free.keeps your hands off and spyware off my identity you paranoid egomaniacle scumbags.
1603 From Maxine A, Yonkers, NY, 04 April 2005, 05:50:56 PM PST
The dangers of RFID are much more insidious than the good they might do.
RFID's could even cause severe problems for elected officials who vote for RFID use - or will they be exempt from having to have them in their passports?
No RFID in passports - or anywhere, Please!
1602 From Mike T, 04 April 2005, 05:49:45 PM PST
Gentlemen:
As a Program Manager for an international company providing direct support for the DOD in the global war on terrorizim, and having personal experience with the use of RFID chips in DOD Logistics and Supply, their use in Passports will make US Employees easy targets for both criminals and terrorists. I encourage you to not actively put Americans in harms way overseas through the use of RFID Chips in U.S. Passports.
There are much easier and safer ways of encoding Passports to make them more secure, such as 2D matrix bar coding.
1601 From Carl M, 04 April 2005, 05:47:26 PM PST
I have grate way to say NO to this test, Do not apply for a passport, that would send a dam strong message to the goverments, I value my privicy and freedom to any illusion of security
From A Vet.
1600 From James T, 04 April 2005, 05:26:00 PM PST
Adaptation of devices that transmit personally identifiable data (even serial numbers) without the knowledge of the holder concerns me. I understand the desire for a machine-readable system for passports. However, "RFID" or "contactless chips" in passports is dangerous. Please use a safer, cheaper system such as barcodes.
1599 From Tiffany T, Ennis, TX, 04 April 2005, 05:24:16 PM PST
I do not believe that we have the right to be tracked as we travel across seas without our knowledge.
1598 From John H, Indianapolis, IN, 04 April 2005, 05:20:49 PM PST
I am extremely concerned about the very real dangers of placing radio transmitters in U.S. Passports. Technology will be developed to single out U.S. citizens with U.S. Passports with radio transmitters in them. I would prefer to spend more time in a line waiting for a bar code to be read than to have my personal information available to any criminal or terrorist with the motivation to use that information against U.S. citizens.
1597 From Jeffrey M, Bethany, WV, 04 April 2005, 04:57:58 PM PST
As a security professional who travels abroad I am seriously concerned about the notion of including unencrypted RFID information on passports. If the system required contact when passing through passport control, that would be fine. But a system that allows people to read my passport info from several feet away--as would be the case despite specious claims to the contrary--concerns me greatly.
1596 From Terry E, North Las Vegas, NV, 04 April 2005, 04:48:48 PM PST
Stop this now!
1594 From Mike T, Akron, OH, 04 April 2005, 04:26:58 PM PST
Using RFID, or any kind of remote sensing technology, in passports, drivers licenses, or any other government-issued identification is, at best, a poor idea. The simple fact of the matter is that it would be trivially easy to sit at an airport and wirelessly gather information on travellers. Based on direction of travel, it would be easy to see who is going away. Using that, the travellers' homes could be robbed. Additionally, such technology enables most of the information necessary to steal someone's identity to be read without even knowing it. It will be easy to pick out US nationals travelling internationally, putting them at risk for kidnapping and much worse things. Worst of all, it will NOT INCREASE SECURITY IN ANY APPRECIABLE FASHION. All it can do is verify the authenticity of the information, which verifies neither the document nor the person--Simply that the information once came from a reliable source. Need we be reminded that all of the 9/11 hijackers used their own identities? Using RFID technology would have done NOTHING to prevent the attacks.
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