{"id":521,"date":"2009-08-21T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.52techtips.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-08-19T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T05:46:58","slug":"passport-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/21\/passport-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I writing about passports on a tech site? Because they are now being made with RFID chips inside. Turns out my passport will expire in the coming months and while I was researching what is needed to renew mine, I also heard a great tip while listening to Security Now! with Steve Gibson. He mentioned in a recent episode that passports are now being made with RFID chips and that this creates a possible security threat. All it would take is for someone to get close enough to you \/ your passport and with a quick swipe of an RFID reader they would have your information. They immediately know if you are U.S. citizen or not. I don&#8217;t want to imagine the possibilities the criminals may come up with to use my information while I&#8217;m traveling so I am going to pick up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/gadgets\/security\/910f\/\" target=\"_blank\">RFID Blocking Passport Billfold<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ThinkGeek.com<\/a> as soon as they&#8217;re back in stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I writing about passports on a tech site? Because they are now being made with RFID chips inside. Turns out my passport will expire in the coming months and while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[134,136,135],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-passport","tag-rfid","tag-thinkgeek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}