Comments on: How to Disable Your Passport’s RFID Chip http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: anybody done_it? http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-1153678 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:22:12 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-1153678 Has anybody disabled the chip and tried to use the passport? If so where were you going and what happened? Has anybody disabled the chip and tried to use the passport? If so where were you going and what happened?

]]> by: John http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-310983 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:43:02 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-310983 The microwave method risks burning and leaving burn marks. The microwave method risks burning and leaving burn marks.

]]> by: spotlessmind http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-301511 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:51:18 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-301511 Clean your pipe, stash your stash paranoid fools. It would be easier to track your hooch than a passport chip. More information is known about you by a credit card probe than a passport chip would ever reveal. It's a security feature like the holograms and watermarks on your passport...nothing else. Chill... Clean your pipe, stash your stash paranoid fools. It would be easier to track your hooch than a passport chip. More information is known about you by a credit card probe than a passport chip would ever reveal. It’s a security feature like the holograms and watermarks on your passport…nothing else.
Chill…

]]> by: asnd16 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-251214 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:39:35 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-251214 Just put it in the microwave for roughly 3 -5 seconds. Just put it in the microwave for roughly 3 -5 seconds.

]]> by: John Tidball http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246735 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:07:50 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246735 I think the metallic wallet for the goofy thing is a better idea. No one will ever imbed anything in me if I don't want them to. Or...just don't go anywhere. The world is to dangerous now. Stay at home and get on the Big Brother monitoring system. Woopee! I think the metallic wallet for the goofy thing is a better idea. No one will ever imbed anything in me if I don’t want them to. Or…just don’t go anywhere. The world is to dangerous now. Stay at home and get on the Big Brother monitoring system. Woopee!

]]> by: Dont Doit http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246687 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:24:56 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246687 This is ALL bad. Putting the RFID tag in the passport in the 1st place was bad idea #1. Slamming it with a hammer to de-activate it & risk FED PEN time is bad idea #2. Trying to disable this bad idea is bad idea #3. This is ALL bad.

Putting the RFID tag in the passport in the 1st place was bad idea #1.

Slamming it with a hammer to de-activate it & risk FED PEN time is bad idea #2.

Trying to disable this bad idea is bad idea #3.

]]> by: degustibus http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246664 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:22:32 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246664 Just try the hammer trick with the chip that's embedded in your buttock. Or behind your ear. Just try the hammer trick with the chip that’s embedded in your buttock. Or behind your ear.

]]> by: John Corliss http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246611 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:57:22 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4710#comment-246611 25 years hard time??? Can you cite a reference for that? I believe that's called "cruel and unusual punishment." 25 years hard time??? Can you cite a reference for that? I believe that’s called “cruel and unusual punishment.”

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