Airline Tests RFID on the Fly
This seems like a good time to once again mention RFIDkills.com.
Ryan Singel writes in Wired News:
United Airlines pilots and crew are the flying guinea pigs in a test of controversial new passports equipped with remotely readable chips.
Approximately 300 United employees stationed on international flights received the new passports in mid-June as part of a three-month, three-country test of IDs equipped with RFID chips. The chips can be read at a distance at border crossings by special readers installed for the trial.
The test is intended to see how easily Australia, New Zealand and the United States can read other's e-passports and how durable the chips are under constant use.
The new chips are part of post-9/11 security efforts intended to curb passport fraud and speed up border crossings, according to Frank Moss, the State Department's deputy assistant secretary for passport services.
posted by Fergie @ 8/09/2005 06:16:00 AM
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