Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attack

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"Create a frequency blocking sleave to fit the card into, like lead fiber in a plastic coating. I am sure it can be fairly thin."

That was already in the story.....
'She said the government intends to issue the cards in a sleeve that would block data from being read off the chip.'

However, that does defeat their purpose: 'to let information be extracted from all of the cards in a particular vehicle at once and displayed on a border patrol officer's computer screen before the cardholder's vehicle reaches the checkpoint.'

Posted by: Badgered   Posted on: 04/24/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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