TWIC Goes Wireless

"Breaker, breaker 1-9..this TWIC card is giving me the cannonball runs..." - A dramatization of Trucker identity dissent.

Identify that muther-Trucker with Transport Worker Identity Credential by wireless remote control?

Si se puede. Codebench says they have the technology.

 

PIVCheck Mobile enables compliance officers to verify cardholder identities and check revocation status using a wireless verification unit. PIVCheck Passage then gives the compliance officer the option to wirelessly open a door or gate using the cardholders’ Wiegand access card ID.

The card ID is transmitted to the access control panel where it is validated and logged as an access event just as if the card had been presented to a directly attached reader. PIVCheck Passage supports most legacy Wiegand formats such as HID’s Corporate
1000 as well as the 48-, 64-, and 75-bit FASC-N based formats.

This combination of a mobile PIV/TWIC authentication appliance with wireless PACS link provides agencies with the ability to converge PIV/TWIC validation requirements with legacy access systems over dispersed operating areas.

Biometrics Pop Quiz: Digimarc or L-1

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TRUE OR FALSE ?

Digimarc technically has the contract with Texas for driver's licenses, through a sub contract for  biometrics. Last year L-1 Identity Solutions purchased Digimarc's licensing division. What this means is now L-1 controls 95% of the U.S. state driver's license [biometrics] market. L-1 will switch to using their own biometrics when Digimarc's current contract with Texas expires.

L-1 produces [biometrics for] enhanced driver's licenses and passport cards. They also are involved in the production of  [biometrics in]US passports. - Mark Lerner

It's True. L-1 one bought Digimarc's license division in March of 2008.

"L-1 has state-of-the-art biometric recognition and authentication capabilities that are integral to making our credential production process for national and international customers more secure and complete," said Bruce Davis, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Digimarc. "Furthermore, our combined knowledge in international markets will enable us to reach more potential customers with an expanded portfolio of innovative credentialing solutions, including national ID cards. The combination of the two will also help speed adoption globally by introducing a more streamlined and cost effective process into the international marketplace." -  L-1 Identity Solutions

Who is Mark Lerner?  This guy.  Yeah.. the Stop Real ID Coalition biometrics whistleblower guy.  

VIRGINIA BEATS THE CHIP!!

HEY  TEXAS AND NORTH CAROLINA ... YOU'RE NEXT!!

Virginia’s General Assembly rejects REAL ID provisions

By David Sherfinski
DC Examiner Staff Writer 2/12/09

The Virginia House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed legislation rejecting elements of the federal government’s Real ID law, which requires states to issue federally mandated drivers’ licenses or similar forms of identification that would become part of a national database.

The House approved Del. Robert Marshall’s, R-Prince William, bill 88-10 on Tuesday, and the Senate passed legislation from Ken Cuccinelli, R-Fairfax, 30-9.

“I was obviously pretty pleased with that,” said Cuccinelli, noting that the bill survived a close 8-6 vote in committee. “Right and left were aligned on this thing. Consistent, steady, grassroots support for it, combined with no opposition … paved the way.”

Critics of the program argue that the law is an invasion of privacy.

“There’s [absolutely] no reason that we should link our data to another database that’s going to be broken into,” said Mike Stallenwerk, chairman of the Fairfax County Privacy Council. “That’s happened time and time again.

“This is fake security,” he added. “It’s not real security.”

The Virginia law, if signed by Gov. Tim Kaine, would not overtly reject Real ID. Rather, it would prohibit the state from complying with any element of the act that would compromise economic privacy, such as residents’ tax returns, financial transactions and investment transactions, or the security of biometric data, like fingerprints, retinal scans and DNA samples.

“This is not only a very important step forward for privacy rights in the state, but it looks as if Virginia will soon join 21 other states that have expressed opposition to some aspects of the federal Real ID law,” said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Virginia chapter.

Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005 in response to the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the U.S. improve its system for issuing ID documents.

“I’d like to see them repeal it straightway,” Cuccinelli said.

The program, whose purpose is to make it more difficult for terrorists to obtain fraudulent state-issued identification, is run by the Department of Homeland Security. Calls and e-mails placed to the agency were not immediately returned Wednesday.

Find this article at:
http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/Virginias-General-Assembly-rejects-REAL-ID-provisions-39457287.html

No Fly List = No Gun, says Rahm Emmanuel

Here is a new-to-me blog + online newscaster that has really gotten my attention:

Media Monarchy.com  {OMG!!}

They got my attention with the following headlines
... borders, biometrics & stupor bowl security

I also  yanked this off of  Media Monarchy.com

TX LATELY: Voter ID Strikes Again

"Frustrated by the failure of legislation requiring voters to show photo identification — touted as an anti-fraud measure — Texas senators abandoned tradition to put the voter ID bill at the head of the line. Never mind that there is little evidence that even small numbers of people are impersonating voters at the polls. Indeed, an expensive investigation by the attorney general's office found a relative handful of cases of voter fraud, and those cases involved ballots that were cast by mail — not in person." -  The Austin American Statesman

It looks like Voter ID is wreaking havock in Texas.  I'm simply at a loss for words since Texas KAOS said it all really.  I am relieved  voter ID isn't married to Real ID, but that doesn't make it any less awful, redundant... Voter ID is not going to get the stink off for voter disenfranchisement.

Constituents go to the phones.....

CALENDAR 

WAKING UP ORWELL  KOOP.org - 91.7 FM  Austin  2/12 - Artivist Film Festival 

5-11 Campaign Meeting  2/15  @ Brave New Books   Austin 

We Are Change Meeting  2/21 @ Brave New Books  Austin 

Nevada Eats The Chip- but WHY?

Nevada's Real ID is a real shame.

Nevada, Nevada, Nevada - why in the world would you submit now to a Real ID?   The American public is not facing the music the financial world has been playing for over 10 weeks now.  We are flat busted.  We don't have money to finance a bailout or other federal-to-state programs. Things have been engineered to go bankrupt.   The NWO cannot have it both ways.  They can't find the cash to federalize fascism when the fiscal system is broken. Good luck.

This is why I would turn to a State like Nevada and say, WHY CAVE NOW?  Wyoming I can see because they begat the monster a.k.a Dick Cheney.  Maryland I can see caving because Washington D.C. has them on the short leash.    This..from a state who has the freedom to get away with the Bunny Ranches?  C'MON!! 

As I have said before, greenlighting Real ID is like committing to a federal railroad infrastructure plan when the surrounding states have shrugged it off.  In this case, Nevada gets their fascist IDs and moves them forward to the border annnnd?  And no one in the next state will observe or translate the technology or coordinate databases.  What a waste.

Maybe their officials should stop frying in the desert on the good drugs the biometrics lobbys are paying for and wake up to their own prospects of identity theft and family violence.  Nevada is going to wind up on the wrong side of the RFID deal.

Hacker Chris Paget on RFID

Chris Paget is the newest Anti- RFID  vlogger considered  "worth watching" by various news sources.   He reveals the hows and whys of black market identity racket terms of identity raids where RFID would be used on the common man.

Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree

{Video demo shows you how}
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco

Posted in Security, 2nd February 2009 06:02 GMT

VMware whitepaper - The business case for Virtualization

Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.

The $250 proof-of-concept device - which researcher Chris Paget built in his spare time - operates out of his vehicle and contains everything needed to sniff and then clone RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully copied the RFID tags of two passport cards without the knowledge of their owners.

Paget's contraption builds off the work of researchers at RSA and the University of Washington, which last year found weaknesses in US passport cards and so-called EDLs, or enhanced drivers' licenses. So far, about 750,000 people have applied for the passport cards, which are credit card-sized alternatives to passports for travel between the US and Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, and Bermuda. EDLs are currently offered by Washington and New York states.

"It's one thing to say that something can be done, it's another thing completely to actually do it," Paget said in explaining why he built the device. "It's mainly to defeat the argument that you can't do it in the real world, that there's no real-world attack here, that it's all theoretical."

Use of the cards is expected to rise as US officials continue to encourage their adoption. Civil liberties groups have criticized the cards and a travel industry association has called on the federal government to suspend their use (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/rfid_scanning_under_fire/) until the risks can be better understood.

The cards make use of the RFID equivalent of optical barcodes known as electronic product code tags, which are widely used to track cattle and merchandise as it's shipped and then stored in warehouses. Because the technology employs no encryption and can be read from distances of more than a mile, the tags are highly susceptible (PDF) (http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/staff/bios/ajuels/publications/EPC_RFID/Gen2authentication--22Oct08a.pdf) to cloning and tracking, researchers have concluded.

Paget's device consists of a Symbol XR400 RFID reader (now manufactured by Motorola), a Motorola AN400 patch antenna mounted to the side of his Volvo XC90, and a Dell 710m that's connected to the RFID reader by ethernet cable. The laptop runs a Windows application Paget developed that continuously prompts the RFID reader to look for tags and logs the serial number each time one is detected. He bought most of the gear via auctions listed on eBay.

And if you read on, we'll show you video proof that the thing actually works.