Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-12-29
That looks lucrative. Buy stolen identy-pieces from phishers and database hackers, assemble them to complete stolen identities and then resell them to illegal immigrants or to their smugglers / smuggling rings.
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Looks like the Pirate Party USA (PPUS) wants to get into the elections. Looks like you can become a ‘card carrying’ member of the party now. Not sure what that means. The only official party membership I know is that party’s name being stamped on your voter registration, which I was unable to do..
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It appears that the new e-Passport’s RFID scanning range is more than an inch or two and people have already figured out how to hack them with a nearby laptop! I think RFID should be limited to 5 centimeters / 2 inches and no cheating allowed (dumbing down receiver sensitivity), because this is how hackers get to read them from a foot or two away. Still better to hack poorly secured databases if you need bulk, but their is some need for some need for targetted identity theft. Likley people to go through the effort of eavesdropping your RFID are political or personal enemies, goverments, the mob, and private investigators.
