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	<title>Comments on: State Department proposes $20 RFID passport cards</title>
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		<title>By: John Spivey</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/20/state-department-proposes-20-rfid-passport-cards/#comment-11609</link>
		<dc:creator>John Spivey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RFID enabled cards and passports have been indisputably proven unsecure. Even with the most innovative encryption, data can be skimmed (read stolen) from these devices. The best way to secure data stored on a RFID enabled card or passport is to prevent unauthorized access to it in the first place. Focusing on this objective, we developed ‘Dead Bolt’ integrated contactless RFID security technology.

Our patent pending security solution is built directly into RFID enabled cards or passports at the time of manufacture. This solution integrates novel piezo driven circuitry into the card or passport, disabling the receive/transmit functions of the RFID circuit. To allow the card or passport integrated with our technology to receive and transmit, a simple and intuitive pressure is applied. This activates our circuitry which, in turn, allows the RFID circuit to function normally; however, this condition is momentary. The time in which our circuitry allows the RFID circuit to send and receive is predetermined by the issuing vendor’s requirements – the unit shown in our demonstration videos is arbitrarily set for 200 milliseconds. At the end of this predetermined “read/transmit window” our circuitry resets, again disabling the card or passport.

‘Dead Bolt’ is thinner than the embedded RFID chip itself and gives no outward appearance of its existence, allowing for practically unlimited applications. It is impossible to access data stored on RFID enabled cards and passports that integrate ‘Dead Bolt’ technology until or unless the user intentionally initiates the read process.

For more information and to see demonstration videos of ‘Dead Bolt’, go to www.spiveytechnologies.com and www.youtube.com/spiveytechnologies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RFID enabled cards and passports have been indisputably proven unsecure. Even with the most innovative encryption, data can be skimmed (read stolen) from these devices. The best way to secure data stored on a RFID enabled card or passport is to prevent unauthorized access to it in the first place. Focusing on this objective, we developed ‘Dead Bolt’ integrated contactless RFID security technology.</p>
<p>Our patent pending security solution is built directly into RFID enabled cards or passports at the time of manufacture. This solution integrates novel piezo driven circuitry into the card or passport, disabling the receive/transmit functions of the RFID circuit. To allow the card or passport integrated with our technology to receive and transmit, a simple and intuitive pressure is applied. This activates our circuitry which, in turn, allows the RFID circuit to function normally; however, this condition is momentary. The time in which our circuitry allows the RFID circuit to send and receive is predetermined by the issuing vendor’s requirements – the unit shown in our demonstration videos is arbitrarily set for 200 milliseconds. At the end of this predetermined “read/transmit window” our circuitry resets, again disabling the card or passport.</p>
<p>‘Dead Bolt’ is thinner than the embedded RFID chip itself and gives no outward appearance of its existence, allowing for practically unlimited applications. It is impossible to access data stored on RFID enabled cards and passports that integrate ‘Dead Bolt’ technology until or unless the user intentionally initiates the read process.</p>
<p>For more information and to see demonstration videos of ‘Dead Bolt’, go to <a href="http://www.spiveytechnologies.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.spiveytechnologies.com</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/spiveytechnologies" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/spiveytechnologies</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Nina</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/20/state-department-proposes-20-rfid-passport-cards/#comment-11608</link>
		<dc:creator>Nina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree, the fees for passports are outrageous considering they are mandatory documents.  Because of a marriage (name change) I have to pay over $150:  $67 (application fee) + $30 (processing fee) + $60 (expediting fee).

If you mail it in, you don&#039;t pay the processing fee (because... they don&#039;t process it??) but you do pay for 2-way overnight delivery... of course, that&#039;s not really an option for people doing something so totally wacky as getting married, since you need to send them a copy of your marriage certificate sealed with the issuer&#039;s seal-- not a notary&#039;s seal, but the issuer&#039;s seal.  Ah, that is super simple, thanks for making this whole process easy.  What the *#&amp;% is the original issuer&#039;s seal and how does one even get that???  Arrrrrr.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree, the fees for passports are outrageous considering they are mandatory documents.  Because of a marriage (name change) I have to pay over $150:  $67 (application fee) + $30 (processing fee) + $60 (expediting fee).</p>
<p>If you mail it in, you don&#8217;t pay the processing fee (because&#8230; they don&#8217;t process it??) but you do pay for 2-way overnight delivery&#8230; of course, that&#8217;s not really an option for people doing something so totally wacky as getting married, since you need to send them a copy of your marriage certificate sealed with the issuer&#8217;s seal&#8211; not a notary&#8217;s seal, but the issuer&#8217;s seal.  Ah, that is super simple, thanks for making this whole process easy.  What the *#&amp;% is the original issuer&#8217;s seal and how does one even get that???  Arrrrrr.</p>
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		<title>By: Patricia Rohm</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/20/state-department-proposes-20-rfid-passport-cards/#comment-11607</link>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Rohm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am really concerned with the chip in the passports and proposed passport cards revealing US citizens to anyone who might have a legal or illegal reader.  I do not want myself or family members being identified at 30 feet as a US citizen!  There are enough potential safety problems as an American traveling abroad without our identity being so easily accessible.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am really concerned with the chip in the passports and proposed passport cards revealing US citizens to anyone who might have a legal or illegal reader.  I do not want myself or family members being identified at 30 feet as a US citizen!  There are enough potential safety problems as an American traveling abroad without our identity being so easily accessible&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: RFID passport card privacy threat debated - Homeland Stupidity</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/20/state-department-proposes-20-rfid-passport-cards/#comment-11606</link>
		<dc:creator>RFID passport card privacy threat debated - Homeland Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 23:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Smart Card Alliance executive director Randy Vanderhoof laid out the problem succinctly in a statement last year: &#8220;Unlike electronic passports, which have built-in security features, a free read [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Smart Card Alliance executive director Randy Vanderhoof laid out the problem succinctly in a statement last year: &#8220;Unlike electronic passports, which have built-in security features, a free read [...]</p>
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		<title>By: dave</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/20/state-department-proposes-20-rfid-passport-cards/#comment-11605</link>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Passport costs are outrageous!!!...I have a family of 6 and it is not an insignificant expense.  $532 for passports.  That equals one $15 an hour bureaucratic paper pusher slaving over a hot keyboard for almost a week to process our paperwork . Can you say PORK BARREL process!!!!! After the passports are bought we are now too poor to travel!   Tell me what I am getting for my $532, and why it costs so much.  It seems that anyone can walk across the border from canada or mexico for free......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Passport costs are outrageous!!!&#8230;I have a family of 6 and it is not an insignificant expense.  $532 for passports.  That equals one $15 an hour bureaucratic paper pusher slaving over a hot keyboard for almost a week to process our paperwork . Can you say PORK BARREL process!!!!! After the passports are bought we are now too poor to travel!   Tell me what I am getting for my $532, and why it costs so much.  It seems that anyone can walk across the border from canada or mexico for free&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: DS</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/20/state-department-proposes-20-rfid-passport-cards/#comment-11604</link>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://www.fdrs.org/rfid_and_passports.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RFID and Passports&lt;/a&gt; article brings up some serious privacy and control issues. This sounds too much like Big Brother.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This <a HREF="http://www.fdrs.org/rfid_and_passports.html" rel="nofollow">RFID and Passports</a> article brings up some serious privacy and control issues. This sounds too much like Big Brother.</p>
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