Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

[Richard Lamont]

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Michael Simpson wrote:
> On 10/6/08, Ian Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> wrote:
>> On 06 Oct 08, at 1036, Casper.Dik@Sun.COM wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> 1. The passport is detectable from 1 or 2 metres away, maybe
>>>> pickpockets or robbers will preferentially target victims known to
>>>> have a passport with them.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Since you typically only want to show the passport when there's a reason,
>>> would a "microswitch" which enables the RFID chip only when the passport
>>> is open, help?
>>>
>> Just make the cover metallic, so that it forms its own `skimstopper'.
>>
>> ian
> 
> or this?
> 
> <http://www.passport-stronghold.com/products.html>

They talk of 'faraday technology', by which they presumably mean an
electrostatic screen. RFID devices use inductive coupling, so what is
needed is protection against the induction (magnetic) field, not the
electrostatic one. I carry a piece of bacofoil inside the back cover of
my passport to provide a 'shorted turn' close-coupled to the RFID loop.


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