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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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US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:18PM
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