Comment Re:Yes what people need to remember (Score 1, Insightful) 492
- Ignore the summons to court.
Unfortunately, that's a crime even if you didn't already commit one.
- Ignore the summons to court.
Unfortunately, that's a crime even if you didn't already commit one.
But the threat in the video is farfetched, because there are much easier ways of finding American tourists.
I don't think the author is making the claim that RFID is the best way to ID Americans. I agree with you that there are much better ways for a human to ID an American. But what about an explosive device, as shown in the video? Modern terrorists use remote explosives to time an attack for most destruction and/or destruction of Americans as opposed to sympathetic locals.
It would be much easier to build a device that will only blow up if X number of Americans are in its kill range. This device could be constructed, dropped, and forgotten about. This means you have no risk of being caught once you plant the device. Sure it could make plenty of collateral damage, but it would always get at least X Americans along with it. The author's claim is that faulty RFID shielding on passports makes this possible to do. I don't have a cost analysis, so perhaps it is still farfetched, but for the right price I think this would be a very practical exploit.
"Sometimes insanity is the only alternative" -- button at a Science Fiction convention.