"it's also been revealed that hackers can get you info just by opening the passport and reading a few pages. The governments involved must be red faced!".
You have to get pretty close to a laptop do read RFID, you need something with a decent CPU to do the cracking as well as radio receivers and transmitters. It's not exactly a subtle thing to do in an airport
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"it's also been revealed that hackers can get you info just by opening the passport and reading a few pages. The governments involved must be red faced!".
You have to get pretty close to a laptop do read RFID, you need something with a decent CPU to do the cracking as well as radio receivers and transmitters. It's not exactly a subtle thing to do in an airport