The US government has always taken a “better late than never” approach to its tech rollouts. After 16 years, it has finally performed the necessary software upgrades to verify the cryptographic signatures stored in passport RFID chips.
government is notorious for taking a “better late than never” approach to its tech rollouts. Following that tradition, US Customs and Border Protection confirmed today that after 16 years it has finally performed theSince 2006, the United States and many other countries have embedded these little chips in the back panel of their passports, or “e-Passports” as they're known.
CBP says that so far the validation process has checked more than 3 million passports from Visa Waiver program travelers and has “contributed” to the arrest of 12 people who were allegedly attempting to enter the US with “fraudulent” identification. “Upgrading passport security is a commonsense way to ensure people entering our country are who they say they are. It is already making America safer, without resorting to invasive searches or massive databases of private data,” Wyden says in a statement to WIRED. “I commend CBP for following through and ensuring forgers and criminals can’t use fraudulent passports to skate through security at the border.
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