[pct-l] Southbound Questions

[Dan Kronstadt]

US passports have an RFID chip. This is "sort of" a transmitter - no
power in it - but, when activated by a "reader," the reader can read the
info on the chip from a short distance - in theory, only a foot or so,
but people keeping pushing the technology, and I think they have been
read from 10 feet or more.

I cannot remember where encryption stands in this - it may need a
bar-code that is printed in the passport, to decrypt it - or we may have
gone the cheap way, without encryption.

Dan

Dan Zan wrote:
> Maybe American passports do not have the transmitters, or maybe the Canadian passports do not either. Maybe it is just our enhanced drivers licences that do. I did not get this information for any conspiracy theory website or anything, either all or one form of Canadian government issued ID has radio transmitters for the specific reason to ease traffic flow into the United States. After taking a quick look online, I can't find any information on passports, so I must have been misinformed about them, however, I am fairly certain that Manitoban enhanced drivers licences have radio transmitters.
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