RFID in Identity Cards Vote Delayed

Delayed but not dead yet. I'm glad my passport doesn't expire for another 5 years, maybe by then there won't be as many vulnerabilities in RFID as there are now.

"The Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee published a draft report that poured cold water on using RFID in government-mandated identity cards and documents (PDF link). But this met with some consternation among the DHS bureaus that plan to use RFID in this way and the businesses eager to sell the technology to the government, and now a vote on the report has been delayed until December."

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