By Emerson Tan (et@c4i.org)

Whilst doing my regular troll through the morning’s information detritus, I stumbled upon an article in the “The Register” on the new Biometric Passports that the US Dept of State is insisting that countries issue if they are to remain part of the US Visa waiver program. The first part of the article [1] seems to give it all away:

“But unlike the RFID passports the USA is now issuing, the Irish ones lack a security feature preventing them from being skimmed, or read surreptitiously.

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