Are new passports [an] identity-theft risk?

[Bill Stewart]

At 06:11 AM 10/24/2004, Ian Grigg wrote:
The questions would then be, what frequency do these
>things operate on, what power is required to power
>them up, and what power is required to ... power them
>down.  Any radio guys around?

There's an excellent RFID reference article at
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=216

RFIDs run at a variety of frequencies,
including 128 kHz, 13.56MHz, 915 MHz, 2.45GHz,
which are the common ISM bands that lots of other things run in,
such as cordless phones, WiFi, Microwave ovens, etc.,
which means that detecting readers may be tough.

It doesn't take a lot of power to power them;
not sure what it takes to fry them.


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Bill Stewart  bill.stewart at pobox.com 


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