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RFID Passport

By sbszine

6 November 2007

42 second read

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In Technology, World

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I am now the proud owner of an RFID passport, complete with a very thick page that says “do not stamp… gadgetry inside”. Apparently this will get me through customs faster, but I’ll still have to shave my beard off if I don’t want my shoes to be randomly selected for chemical swabbing yet again.

Next up, biometrics and DNA samples.

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4 Comments

Red Wolf

6 November 2007 at 1.25 pm

All this gadgetry just makes me want to find ways to circumvent it

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sbszine

8 November 2007 at 9.17 am

You could try stamping the “do not stamp” page…

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Red Wolf

8 November 2007 at 1.13 pm

I wonder how they react to strong magnetic fields

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Lucie

16 January 2008 at 5.42 am

Hola! Hugo and I have been traveling with these, I’ve still had to remove my bandanna and for some reason in Cuba was asked if I was born in England. It must be my non pommy accent coupled with country of birth: Australia bit in my passport which confounded them.

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