U.S. seeks OSCE pact on biometric passports

[David Honig]

At 04:50 PM 9/2/03 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>Anyone have any pointers to non destructive methods of rendering Smart
>Chips unreadable?  Just curious.
>
>DCF

Perhaps I'm being dense but how could this be non-destructive? 

Do you mean "non-obvious"?   Or "reversible"?

If the usual microwave games don't apply, perhaps sufficient
acceleration or ionic fluids would work.  Thermal stress
for the liquid nitrogen folks?  The flash unit from
a $4 disposable camera does a nice job of vaporizing a spot of 
metal from a coin or screwdriver shorting the cap.

Do any europeans have experience leaving smartcards in the laundry?

One question would be how to discretely test/verify the new read-not mode :-)







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