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Old Dec 21, 2008 | 7:57 am
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Originally Posted by caspritz78
As I said before. The RFID chips are safe compared to today's standards. This however can change in 10 or 20 years and this is in my eyes the only real problem. Encryption algorithms which are unbreakable today like AES could be broken in 10 to 20 years depending on improvements of computer technology.
I guess it is relative. I actually consider my biographic data to be worthy of protecting, and you've acknowledged that it is on the part of the chip that has no protections at all. No swipe to generate a key to read it. Just pass by with a RFID reader and that data, along with the encrypted biometric bits, is there for the taking. Is that truly safe??
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