full-disclosure - RFID used at Olympics in Germany

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Date: Thu Jun  1 06:38:16 2006
From: jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)
Subject: RFID used at Olympics in Germany

Josh L. Perrymon wrote:
> So everyone is going to have this RFID embedded ticket with name, 
> address, passport or driver license number?

 From the article:
   "an embedded RFID chip containing identification information
    that will be checked against a database"

To me that doesn't imply that the chip will contain the items in your 
list.  It could be a checksum of the data in the DB, and security 
officials just validate, against the DB, the full name on a physical 
passport and the checksum on the RFID.

Now, the security of the DB could be a whole other thread of discussion. ;-)

-Jim P.