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The NFC passports contain digital data, even your photo, you can use this app to see for yourself: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.innovalor.n...
Part of me really wants to try this. Part of me is terrified of scanning my passport with an app I have just heard of.
The design on the passport made me thing that it would be really handy if the anti-forgery stuff contained information useful to a traveller, and not just be decorative.
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Not necessarily a USB as an interface, and it shouldn’t contains any biometric either for privacy, just a paper replacement.
They are already RFID enabled (at least US ones have been for years). You would want a paper version as a backup anyway in case the electronics fail.
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The NFC passports contain digital data, even your photo, you can use this app to see for yourself: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.innovalor.n...
Part of me really wants to try this. Part of me is terrified of scanning my passport with an app I have just heard of.
Strangely, to decrypt the data off the passport you need the passport number, the date of birth, and the expiry date. I assume this is why that playstore app needs to get a photo of your passport. Sure enough, my phone could read off other details about me including my photo after a few seconds of reading.
Never knew how it worked before, and assumed it was like how mifare DESfire cards work since the bytes I got from a simple reader app were different every time. (I assume that's done so you can't wirelessly ID people using their passports)
That document looks beautiful though, very reminiscent of CHF notes.
Why there’s no physical token as a passport yet!? Something like a yubico usb and can have it in the keychain would be ideal.
Still has the privacy-invasive RFID/NFC. I would not recommend inadvertently deactivating such an unwanted privacy thief by forgetting it in a microwave and definitely not accidentally turning it on for 1 second because then government entities would have to rely on document identifiers from the OCR scanner as a primary key into regulated database access instead.