money.cnn.com — Imagine being overseas and your identity being available for the taking - your nationality, your name, your passport number. Everything. .. AND IT GETS BETTER...The equipment needed to skim an RFID chip neither has to be large nor expensive. Nokia sells cell phones capable of reading RFID chips. Texas Instruments sells kits to do the same thing.
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fernbJul 18, 2006Submitter
And the downsides keep on coming.....
fernbJul 18, 2006Submitter
"It's a great way for unfriendly elements to set up their own RFID scanning systems and pick Americans right out of a crowd...If you put an RFID scanner in a doorway or maybe a lamp-post," said Sterling, "you can just sit there automatically counting the passing passports."Even if the skimmed data is encrypted -- as e-Passport information would be -- skilled hackers could potentially save the information and crack it elsewhere.