RFID Passports Less Reliable than Traditional Passports / Schneier on Security, 20 Nov 2006

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"From EPIC: A document obtained by EPIC from the State Department reveals that 2004 government tests found passports with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that are read 27% to 43% less successfully than the previous Machine Readable Zone technology (two lines of text printed at the bottom of the first page of a passport)." [Brief]