I'm not so sure that this is true. There are a lot of things that a company is not allowed to ask a prospective candidate. Age/sexual preference/marital status/kids/(legal) drug use/etc just for starters. Those are things that could all easily be found in most people's social networking profiles.

From what I see, any company that engages in this kind of activity opens itself up to enormous risk of lawsuits. If they gain access to someone's facebook profile and then choose not to hire them, the prospective employee can point to information in their facebook profile that the employer should not have access to as the basis of a lawsuit. IMHO, the entire thing is a minor issue as it will sort itself out pretty quickly.

Yup! Just like Anna Chapman! Oh, wait...she got on the cover of Maxim magazine after being sent home instead...

Well, no...that would be silly...IBM hasn't made PCs for years.

So some definitions of marriage should never be changed because it is an ANCIENT construct given legitimacy by legal rulings?

The same way that they did before passports had chips in them? Namely by scanning the barcode and/or the magnetic strip.

No, you really don't.

If your goal is to reproduce the contents of the RFID chip, then you want it in the encrypted form. No need to decrypt it.

And considering that the encryption was broken in 2006, even if you do want the contents, you don't really need the MRZ.

As a citizen, you cannot be denied entry into the US.

Denying you the ability to leave is another matter, but even that can only be done under very limited circumstances since the ability to travel has been upheld as a right.

Really? All of that just so my ten year old kid can fly his crappy $20 Air Hogs toy? What? You didn't think this through? Really? It didn't show...

The same Mythbusters where they interviewed an ER doctor that says that it does happen and they called the myth busted anyway? Or did they revisit that one due to being out of fresh ideas too?

You never saw Red Dawn, then?