from: www.mountainsentinel.com/#disableRFID
How to disable an RFID passport, credit card or drivers license
All passports issued by the US State Department after January 1 will have
always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials and
hackers to grab your personal stats. Getting paranoid about strangers
slurping up your identity?
Here's what you can do about it. But be careful, tampering with a passport is
punishable by 25 years in prison. Not to mention the "special" customs
search, with rubber gloves. Bon voyage!
1) RFID-tagged passports have a distinctive logo on the front cover; the chip
is embedded in the back.
2) Sorry, "accidentally" leaving your passport in the jeans you just put in
the washer won't work. You're more likely to ruin the passport itself than the
chip.
3) Forget about nuking it in the microwave, the chip could burst into flames,
leaving telltale scorch marks. Besides, have you ever smelled burnt passport?
4) The best approach? Hammer time. Hitting the chip with a blunt, hard object
should disable it. A nonworking RFID doesn't invalidate the passport, so you
can still use it.
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