As the United States government and other countries plow ahead with REAL ID and RFID passports it has been revealed that hackers can steal and hack your passport as it is being mailed without ever opening the package:
They are the “safest ever”, according to the Government. But the Daily Mail has revealed how easily a person’s identity can be stolen from new biometric passports. In just four hours, the Mail hacked into a new biometric passport and stole the details a people trafficker or illegal migrant would need to set up a life in Britain.
A shocking security gap allows the personal details and photograph in any electronic passport to be copied from the outside of the envelope in which it is delivered to homes. The passport holder is none the wiser when it arrives because the white envelope has not been tampered with or opened.
Using a simple gadget built from parts bought on the Internet, it took the Mail less than four hours to copy the details from one passport.More significantly, we had the details which would allow a fraudster, people trafficker or illegal immigrant to set up a new life in Britain.
The criminal could open a bank account, claim state benefits and undertake a myriad financial and legal transactions in someone else’s name.
This revelation will prove a major embarrassment to ministers. Since their introduction a year ago, more than four million biometric travel documents have been delivered by courier.
-DailyMail
Dear Mr. Jeffries,
I applaud your efforts and this website.
As you stated that this newest fascism is coming out of the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, I was wondering if you’ve ever considering organizing all these wonderful people to locally file resolutions against this Act and any related executive power provisions that are hidden all over legislation unrelated to those inserted provisions.
Sample resolutions can be found easily on the Internet, I just found four when I searched for them.
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The list goes on and on. I am a huge believer in the organic revolution that has slowly been taking hold, and the need to resurrect the agrarian lifestyle that will locally sustain people, and also warily conscious of the anti-organic behemoths in big ag, big pharma, big chem etc., who wish like W, to effect their world like a dictator would, “because it would be so much easier”. Needless to say, these laws passed in the last five years are the source of their power, and perhaps need to be the target of those of us who wish to live simply, with our animal sustainers, and without the high and costly stress of being charged with arbitrary numberless victimless crimes.
So what do you think? Get them where it hurts, sit in at your local politicians’ offices until they pass these resolutions, and spread anti-fascism across rural America.
9/11 was a horrible crime. It was a crime, nonetheless, and should have been investigated. Instead, those in power violated the crime scene, swept all the evidence onto barges and out of the reach of investigators, and plopped this monstrosity of a bill down in front of traumatized legislators, forcing them to pass the thing. It was written by John Ashcroft way before 9/11 happened. 3 and a half inches thick, they were forced to pass this without reading it, before their tears were dry, before they had taken a deep breath to consider that the crime of 9/11, like any other heineous crime, should be forensically scrutinized for clues, and leads developed and followed. How could they be trumpeting the perpetrators’ names thirty minutes after the towers fell? Assumptions are not fact, yet this Congress ruined all our lives in ways we haven’t even begun to understand, based on one, coming from an administration now known for getting the facts wrong. I say bring on the resolutions.
Don’t State laws still trump federal ones? These resolutions might free our state Ag departments from falling under the spell of the USDA.
I don’t know, it’s just a thought. I’m desperate to fix this. I want my chickens back someday.
Thanks for being there, and for all you do, and I wish you all success in reclaiming the freedoms we all have lost.
Best Regards,
Maria Hance
pevely, mo
a_schaerer@sbcglobal.net
Comment Maria Hance — March 17, 2007 @ 10:52 am
Maria, #1 I agree with
your comments, the Patriot Act is a farce…Putting through resolutions?…do it. Each of us needs to act in which ever way way we can to recoup our rights. Go for it.
You asked if state law trumps federal law? Who knows when the “decider” has declared the Constitution a damned piece of paper. No, I’m not a bleeding heart liberal folks, I’m actually a pretty conservative guy, fiscally anyway…but let’s face it the only reason for not impeaching the smirking draft dodger is because we’d get stuck with his buddy that nobody will go Quail hunting with anymore!
My political loyalties don’t lie with a particular party and I suggest yours shouldn’t either, if they can’t leave our rights alone, get out the pitch forks and tar and feathers, uh metaphorically speaking of course. (and make sure the feathers came from a registered chicken :) )
Comment Bob Constantine — March 17, 2007 @ 5:00 pm