Originally Posted by DH
I wonder whether will help out terrorists to point out US citizens among the crowd using proper RF reading device. If the passport is not shielded, this would be too difficult to achieve, right?
It'll first be done by criminals lookings for financial pickings. Then those criminals looking for political point scoring will pick up on it too. In any event, standardized documents eventually become a criminal's friend -- whether it be to pilfer from someone or to circumvent security to do that or worse.