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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 23 2018, @09:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-shocked-I-tell-you dept.

Passports, like any physical ID, can be altered and forged. That's partly why for the last 11 years the United States has put RFID chips in the back panel of its passports, creating so-called e-Passports. The chip stores your passport information—like name, date of birth, passport number, your photo, and even a biometric identifier—for quick, machine-readable border checks. And while e-Passports also store a cryptographic signature to prevent tampering or forgeries, it turns out that despite having over a decade to do so, US Customs and Border Patrol hasn't deployed the software needed to actually verify it.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-hasnt-validated-e-passport-data-for-years/


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @10:12AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @10:12AM (#642299)

    The plebians don't remember history/understand the consequences of this.

    When the 4th Reich rises (Placeholder for whatever our next big world war instigating genocidal culture is), they are going to very quickly and very effectively collate all this biometric data and use it to focus in on the unwanted races/classes/peoples and use it in a purge. If a few extras who weren't actually members of those groups get wiped out in the purge, well we can always breed more of our 'pure blooded' group, yah?

    Combined with the ability to falsify most forms of biometrics (even facial ones if you're willing to spend enough time under the knife), and the only reason for this is security theatre and the future potential for selective persecution/purging.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:18PM (#642368)

    Muslims just ask a few questions that only a religious pedo who has read their book in their heretic language could answer with a bullet in the head for those too slow or unable to answer

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday February 23 2018, @09:40PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday February 23 2018, @09:40PM (#642651)

    Totalitarian governments don't even need to spend our taxes to collect that holocaust_2.0 data.
    Wave enough dollars under G/A/F/A noses, or wave a threat to expell them from a market and they will "comply with local laws".