Sinister tracking device in my new passport..?

[Scythe]

How do you know? Even if it that's true, how safe are said details?

Wear a tin foil hat, you and your passport will be untraceable

EDIT:damn beaten ^

 

[Indy500]

Although that would have course prevent the previous scenario of someone coming up and using a reader to counterfeit the details - as their biometric information wouldn't match

Ah, but then you could put someone's print in a piece of play-dough, and a reader still accepts it.

 

[JIM_BOB7813]

They are strongly encrypted, but the key to decrypt them is comprised of your date of birth, expiry date and passport number. If you can find that information, you can read the data on the passport.
You can't change the data though, because it's signed.

It's unlikely that someone will clone/copy it now it's in your hands, according to this article the best place to do it is before it reaches you.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/daily_mail_passport_clone/

 

[GhostlyPea]

Nuke it from orbit


(microwave)

- Pea0n

 

[SB118]

You need to find a rf read/write unit and embed a URL in your data This one should do -> http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

 

[Mr Joshua]

There could be a good market for foil lined wallets/pouches.

People have been known to use bags lined with foil to shoplift so it should block signals to the passport.

 

[manoz]

LoL at the OP. It's just a chip to "help" prevent forgery. If you are so paranoid you wouldn't have one, for all you know there could be a tracking system sandwiched in the last page that you don't know of!!! *Tin Foil*

It doesn't like very high or low temps, excess moisture, magnetic fields and microwaves if you really wana go ahead and void your passport

 

[robmiller]

Ah, but then you could put someone's print in a piece of play-dough, and a reader still accepts it.

I'm sure the immigration officials won't notice you doing that right in front of them

 

[SB118]

It doesn't like .. low temps, excess moisture, ..

What a brilliant piece of kit to deploy in the UK!

 

[Tefal]

Ah, but then you could put someone's print in a piece of play-dough, and a reader still accepts it.

But then you have to gouge out their eye too ¬_¬

 

[Burnsy2023]

What a brilliant piece of kit to deploy in the UK!

We're saved by the fact it's usally mild and damp

Burnsy

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

There could be a good market for foil lined wallets/pouches.

People have been known to use bags lined with foil to shoplift so it should block signals to the passport.

Why would you bring your passport with you to shoplift?

 

[Killerkebab]

What a brilliant piece of kit to deploy in the UK!

It has a film around it in case water falls on your passport and he said very low temps which is something the UK never sees thanks to its useless climate

 

[FosterK]

Why would you bring your passport with you to shoplift?

I think he means about blocking security tags with it

 

[Mr Joshua]

Why would you bring your passport with you to shoplift?

I don't know, why would you take a passport with you while you were shoplifting?

 

[Killerkebab]

Why would you bring your passport with you to shoplift?

In case you have the quickly leave the country when the cops are on you

 

[Biohazard]

It is something to worry about, they have the scanners/reader in the sewers.

Do not carry RFID!!! BB eat your heart out!

 

[Indy500]

I'm sure the immigration officials won't notice you doing that right in front of them

I was being a tad tongue-in-cheek there

But then you have to gouge out their eye too ¬_¬

Or do it Splinter Cell\MGS stylee..

 

[iviv]

It is something to worry about, they have the scanners/reader in the sewers.

Do not carry RFID!!! BB eat your heart out!

Or avoid the sewers when carrying your passport? Shouldn't be too hard.

 

[HarryPainful]

I distrust the government. I don't know what's on it, and what it's capable of doing. For all I know, it enables them to pinpoint the location of the passport.

Dont forget your tinfoil hat.