My new passport has an RFID chip in it. I understand that it is embedded in the cover of the book, along with a spiral of antenna.
Is it in the front cover or the back? The back cover, and most of the pages except for the front cover, have an identifying number drilled through them in a dot matrix of fine holes.
Back, according to this article:
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=9
Which suggests hitting it really hard with a hammer to disable it.
Depends what country your passport is from. Aussie passports have it embedded in its own page in the middle while in Canada it’s in the back cover.
You can see someone poke at it in this video:
Thank you! I missed that page.
its just a Rifd chip …
you information is associated with the passport number
From the source:
14.3.1 Data storage capacity of the contactless IC. The data storage capacity of the IC is at the discretion of the issuing State subject to a minimum of 32 kilobytes. This minimum capacity is necessary to store the mandatory stored facial image (typically 15 — 20 kB), the duplicate MRZ data and the necessary elements for securing the data. The storage of additional facial, fingerprint and/or iris images may require a significant increase in data storage capacity. There is no maximum IC data capacity specified.
14.4 Storage of other data. A State may wish to use the storage capacity of the IC in an ePassport to expand the machine readable data capacity of the MRP beyond that defined for global interchange. This can be for such purposes as providing machine readable access to breeder document information (e.g. birth certificate details), stored personal identity confirmation (biometrics) and/or document authenticity verification details.
14.11 Minimum data items to be stored in the LDS. The minimum mandatory items of data to be stored in the LDS on the contactless IC shall be a duplication of the machine readable zone data in Data Group 1 and the holder’s facial image in Data Group 2. In addition, the IC in a compliant ePassport shall contain the Security Data (EF.SOD) that is needed to validate the integrity of data created by the issuer — this is stored in Dedicated File No 1 as specified in the LDS (See Section III). The Security Data (EF.SOD) consists of the hashes of the Data Groups in use.
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Even bureaucrats should use some discretion when choosing their words.
So if you break it, what then? If the passport is still good, why break it?