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Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip

posted by takyon on Sunday May 07 2017, @08:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the security-by-stupidity dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

TechDirt reports:

In a letter sent recently from Senator Ron Wyden to two of his colleagues who head the Committee on Rules & Administration, it's noted that (incredibly) the ID cards used by Senate Staffers only appear to have a smart chip in them. Instead of the real thing, some genius just decided to put a photo of a smart chip [PDF] on each card, rather than an actual smart chip. This isn't security by obscurity, it's... bad security through cheap Photoshopping. From our Senate.

Moreover, in contrast to the executive branch's widespread adoption of PIV cards with a smart chip, most Senate staff ID cards have a photo of a chip printed on them, rather than a real chip. Given the significant investment by the executive branch in smart chip based two-factor authentication, we should strongly consider issuing our staff real chip-based ID cards and then using those chips as a second factor.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:00PM (5 children)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:00PM (#505985) Journal

    Surely if the moniker "fake news" applies anywhere, it must apply to a story like this. :)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:52PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:52PM (#506003)

    Fake news, fake chips, fake cards, .. fake senators? Fake America?

    • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:59PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:59PM (#506006)

      Fake news, fake chips, fake cards, .. fake senators? Fake America?

      Fake freedom.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday May 08 2017, @06:32AM

        by bob_super (1357) on Monday May 08 2017, @06:32AM (#506215)

        Fake Democracy, too...

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by linkdude64 on Monday May 08 2017, @02:38PM (1 child)

        by linkdude64 (5482) on Monday May 08 2017, @02:38PM (#506366)

        Please find another country to live in. Mexico and their people are apparently so much more free, safe, generous, and productive than Americans - what is preventing you from living there?

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Monday May 08 2017, @08:47PM

          by krishnoid (1156) on Monday May 08 2017, @08:47PM (#506567)

          I think s/he tried, but there was this big wall in the way ...