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According to most official documents, any passport which has a faulty rfid will be assumed tampered with, and will become invalid. So unless you want to be refu
by imajes 16y ago
According to most official documents, any passport which has a faulty rfid will be assumed tampered with, and will become invalid. So unless you want to be refused entry and forced to replace your passport, this is unadvisable.
- seven 16y agoThis is not true for Germany. (Which makes this even more a security theater..)
- danudey 16y agoYou could cause even more of a hassle then by building an RFID zapper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID_Zapper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID_Zapper). A powerful one that fits inside a suitcase could be set off in an airport concourse, frying a large number of people's chips without them ever knowing (or any damage to the passport itself occurring). Do it on a busy travel day and suddenly the authorities have to deal with a ton of broken passports. Either they arrest everyone, or they let everyone through. Of course, you probably couldn't get a suitcase-sized RFID zapper through security, but you could show up, set it off a few times, and then leave without arousing TOO much suspicion.
- JonnieCache 16y agoHell you could just do it on the airport shuttle bus. Or at the passport issuing office. Now that would be chaos.
- SeoxyS 16y agoSo, you're essentially promoting terrorism… neat.
- danudey 16y agoFrom the point of view of the TSA, maybe. In reality, it's just talking and sharing information.
- WildUtah 16y agoI've had border guards order me to replace a passport that I carried with me in a rainstorm. It was perfectly readable, but they didn't like the way it had visible damage. Maybe the "security" features were less checkable. That was in the days before RFID. My passport has a bar-code and every entrance station already has a reader, so RFID is redundant anyway.