Day: August 15, 2006

RFID passports arrive for Americans | CNET News.com

RFID passports arrive for Americans | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A first wave of U.S. passports implanted with radio tags will soon begin making their way into the hands of American travelers despite lingering privacy and security concerns, federal officials said Monday. Not long after researchers at a pair of security conferences in Las Vegas demonstrated potential risks associated with the new documents, the U.S. State Department insisted the documents are tamperproof and said it had begun producing them at the Colorado Passport Agency, which serves applicants from that state and the

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Veterans Affairs to protect data on laptops – CNET News.com

Veterans Affairs to protect data on laptops | CNET News.com For more info click on above link One week after news that another computer from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had gone missing, the agency announced plans to beef up safeguards on all of its machines. In the next week, the agency plans to begin installing data encryption software on its laptop and desktop machines, VA Secretary R. James Nicholson said Monday. Data on portable media such as flash drives and CDs will also be protected. “A system-wide encryption program will be a tremendous step forward

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