Re:The Terrorist Bomber's Dream! (Score 1)

He doesn't really go into detail either about what particular information he's referencing. Now, I would argue there could be a scenario where if you put a listening device 20 meters away from a real reader.. it might be able to hear a transaction between a passive badge and a reader, but it would still be a difficult task, especially given a practical environment with all the other additional "noise"... including other RFID transactions on the same frequencies.

I mean, he says "continuously broadcasting their name, nationality, age, address and whatever else is on the RFID chip." .... which is definately not true, unless it's an active tag (requiring a battery).. which is not what they'd put in a passport.

http://www.rfid-handbook.de/rfid/types_of_rfid.htm l