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- Obsidian743, on 07/08/2009, -0/+33Unfortunately this is just one step towards ALL passports requiring RFID and biometric info.
- ObeseSnake, on 07/08/2009, -2/+34A towel and a hammer....I'm just saying....
- Rikkochet, on 07/08/2009, -1/+29You really think a border security drone will know the difference between "this chip isn't readable" and "there's no chip at all"?
If the magic passport-scanning wand doesn't beep soothingly and display a photo of you you'll either be denied entry or dragged into a back room for five hours while they do the monkeys-discovering-tools routine with your passport. - alethes1973, on 07/08/2009, -3/+28Stupid Nazi Bush administration!
Oh wait... - thumber, on 07/08/2009, -17/+40my friend invited me to California to stay for 3 weeks. I was excited, until i found out that ill be fingerprinted when I arrive!! I aint got a criminal record and im not about to have a record without one.
no iv got nothing to hide but my dignity and im not gonna forfeit that just to visit the USA.
this is actual evidence of your draconian security now effecting your tourism. - Moralogic, on 07/08/2009, -0/+20Because terrorists are that common and actually that big of a problem.
- jwolcott, on 07/08/2009, -3/+22Dear United States,
***** YOU, I'm cancelling my trip.
Sincerely,
Great Britain - inactive, on 07/08/2009, -1/+19A lot of data? They already finger print people, use visual scanners that see through clothes, watch for "non standard behavior", racially profile for further questioning, thermally image faces for signs of "dishonesty or disease".
The passport data is nothing in comparison - Moralogic, on 07/08/2009, -0/+16Thats why it all ***** needs to go. This is exactly why I only go on vacations where I can drive. I am not about to save myself 3 days and have an anal probe stuck up my ass just so these ***** can get their jollies off of being "authority". The ***** that is happening is irrational, and inexcusable. I rather die from a terrorist attack and others keep their freedoms than this *****.
- serif69, on 07/08/2009, -1/+15Dear Great Britain,
SMILE, you're on closed-circuit camera.
Sincerely,
United States - Midtowner, on 07/08/2009, -1/+15A citizen of the UK really has no place pretending his country is superior in looking after the privacy rights of its citizens or visiting aliens.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -1/+15and the best part is RFID tags dont even have encrypted signals. just buy a nifty little scanner off ebay and walk around people at airports and just get a slew of personal biometric info...
- Abatrour, on 07/08/2009, -2/+14And one step towards Tyranny... Germany anyone?....
- Opperior, on 07/08/2009, -1/+13Fingerprinting is hardly unique to the U.S. On a recent trip to Japan, I had to be fingerprinted when I arrived there.
- Hetman, on 07/08/2009, -0/+12There is a solution. How about we regulate the businesses that are hiring illegals. If we fine them so much that it is impossible for them to make a profit if they higher illegals they wills top doing it. If they are not hiring illegals, then illegals have no reason to come here. I know you probably hate the word regulation but that is the easiest and most effective way to stop the problem.
- fuggo, on 07/08/2009, -0/+12I see you're from the UK. Dont they have like 4 million cctv cameras there?
- drig, on 07/08/2009, -0/+11How to kill an RFID signal http://boingboing.net/2008/04/25/howto-killblock-a ...
- steelersfan7roe, on 07/08/2009, -0/+11yay Less tourists for my state!
Not like we're in a budget crises or anything. - dusanmal, on 07/08/2009, -2/+13Proven wrong. UK hackers demonstrated to their own Govt. that all they needed is 50 ft distance and from info scanned they reproduced perfect forgeries of the complete passport (not just RFID)... Yes, they needed a knowledge/tech. to make the complete passport, but that is apparently the easy part.
- Apocrypha, on 07/08/2009, -1/+12Oh, they 'demand' it do they? Well, here's one for you....'***** You and and your demands"
- Abatrour, on 07/08/2009, -3/+13Now people are starting to realize that a new President doesn't mean change. Bush, McCain, Obama, Clinton are all owned by the same rich elitists. The same elitists who funded Hitler and Stalin..
History will repeat itself unless we study it.
I'm ***** glad that you Americans have guns.. that is until your government tries to disarm you all... - angryfirelord, on 07/08/2009, -3/+13Biometric information? That's giving quite a bit of personal data just to cross the border.
- LucifersDad, on 07/08/2009, -0/+9Terrorists will love RFID tags.
Just develop a bomb that goes off if a tag from America/Britain is near by. - Hetman, on 07/08/2009, -0/+9A wet rag around the visa. I mean ***** it worked for arnold.
- Hetman, on 07/08/2009, -2/+11Border fences are not going to work. Sorry to tell you that.
- Abatrour, on 07/08/2009, -0/+8Maybe you should get off your ass and protest?
- morepowerr, on 07/08/2009, -1/+8Ya after all any one how think for them self in the US is marked as a terrorists.
- drig, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6Except it leaves visible evidence.
- stevensj2, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6And all this time I thought it was the "terrorists" we were going after...
Had I listened closer, I'd notice they were saying "tourists."
It's the tourists who hate our freedoms and most be stopped. It's the war on tourism that we're fighting.
Going after society at large and tagging passports makes much more sense now. After all, it's not like an actual terrorist would be using the legal means of acquiring a legit passport to enter the country...just those pesky tourists, which must be detained. Each and every one of them. - alamedaman, on 07/08/2009, -5/+10***** that, I'm so glad I got my passport before this big brother RFID stuff happened. don't know what I'll do in a decade or so when it expires though. maybe go on the lam.
- sremick, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5I've got a metal-lined passport holder for this very reason.
Boy did that piss off the people running the metal-detectors and x-ray scanners at the airport. It's not illegal, but they'll try real hard to make you feel like it is.
TSA is just a bunch of rent-a-cops on an even bigger power-trip involved in one of the biggest security-theater farces the world has ever seen. - AraleNorimaki, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5 microwave your passport
- govtdoesnotwork, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5Presbyterian, do you really think Jehovah's Witnesses & Gypsies (among others oppressed) were Jewish? Wow. History fail is right.
- vbullinger, on 07/08/2009, -1/+5@Peter
I'd love to see what you would've been like in Nazi Germany. They didn't flip a switch: they incrementally brought in tyranny.
@Presbyterian
Wow dude. Wow. Shockingly stupid. I assume Nishnabotna was referring to you. - lostinseganet, on 07/08/2009, -0/+4Woa did not even think of that.
- CoolSilver, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Did you have to bin it or did they make you carry it with you through the detector?
I have one, going on a trip in two weeks - R3t0x, on 07/08/2009, -0/+4I want to say it's ***** started but this has been years in the making. I remember hearing about this back in 2006.
- 5urr3al5am, on 07/08/2009, -4/+8yeah you dont really here "Stupid Nazi Obama Administration" .. kind of makes those people FOS and just playing the political game back in 2008.
- dalittle, on 07/08/2009, -1/+5microwave is better. Chip will still be intact, but info will be gone.
- Aroundtown27, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Personally I would rather have to sit through a secondary inspection than run the risk of having my effing biometric data stolen with these severely flawed RFID chips. Not to mention that I have a huge issue with giving up biometric info in the first place.
- andymadigan, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3What if I (a U.S. citizen) am stuck in a foreign country and lost my passport? Am I supposed to wait 4-8 weeks for a new one?
- morepowerr, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3As long as there are people with at lest 1/4 of a brain in the US. There will always be guns. Maybe not the best guns but there will always be guns.
- AngelaQ, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3The only reason we have not solved the problem of illegal immigration is because the huge numbers of illegal immigrants (and legal ones under the abusive H1b program) are a direct cause of wage deflation. Without all those immigrants willing to accept slave wages, employers would have to pay a living wage and Americans would take every job. Food prices would be higher, just like they are in other countries, where agricultural jobs are done by legal residents. But Americans would be earning enough money to pay for their food. There would be fewer jobs paying less than minimum wage for backbreaking work.
Too bad, there'd be a few million less income for the billiionaires on the top. - yacks, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3well soon, we'd be forced to have these implanted into our skins..
- Abatrour, on 07/08/2009, -3/+6No, that would be the "mark of the beast" if it was implanted under the skin...
Alex Jones is right about the tyranny in government though. I have lost all faith in the human race, we are all a bunch of ***** sheep who will easily trade in our freedoms for security.. - inactive, on 07/08/2009, -5/+8I've had one for about 4 years, its no biggy. the only thing is that someone could theoretically swipe your passport details without picking your pocket by scunning an RFID scanner over your pocket. At a distance of up to 3 feet.
Tin foil lined wallets anyone? - dx0ne, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3http://boasas.com/?c=1089
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -2/+5adenine...i can't believe in mid-2009 that idiots are still hanging onto the 'they do jobs that Americans won't do.' *****, no matter how many times it is proven false. any time a company is busted for hiring illegals and the illegal aliens are deported, the next day there are lines of people waiting to fill those opened spots...AMERICANS hoping to get those jobs.
- piper999, on 07/08/2009, -1/+4Dear Great Britain,
If you didn't insist on segregating your own country along religious and racial lines in a way that makes South Africa under Apartheid look dangerously liberal and consequently if you didn't have to live under 24 hour surveillance with a government controlled media then we wouldn't have to make new laws to keep you idiots where you belong.
Sincerely,
The Free World - AngelaQ, on 07/08/2009, -1/+4You mean like, someone who gained or lost weight since they got it. Or changed their hair style.
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