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REAL ID an International ID
Sovereignty - Complete independence and self-government.
Free Enterprise - an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.
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RFID TAG
SECURITY RISKS
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In this paper, we explore the systemic risks and challenges created by increasingly common use of EPC (Electronic Product Code) for security applications. As a central case study, we examine the recently issued United States Passport Card and Washington State "enhanced" drivers license (WA EDL), both of which incorporate Gen-2 EPC tags. We explore several issues:
1. Cloning: We report on the data format of Passport Cards and WA EDLs and demonstrate their apparent susceptibility to straightforward cloning into off the shelf EPC tags. We show that a key anti-cloning feature proposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (the tag-unique TID) remains undeployed in these cards.
2. Read ranges: We detail experiments on the read-range of Passport Cards and WA EDLs across a variety of physical configurations. These read ranges help characterize both issues regarding owner privacy and vulnerability to clandestine "skimming" and cloning.
3. Design drift: We find that unlike Passport Cards, WA EDLs are vulnerable to scanning while placed in protective sleeves, and also to denial-of-service attacks and covert-channel attacks.
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REAL/PASS ID
NATIONAL ID
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 REAL ID/PASS ID Letter Michigan State HR Paul E. Opsommer
As written, I therefore believe that both REAL ID and PASS ID would constitute a national ID card program unless the process is done via a rulemaking process that is fully negotiated and would require Congressional approval for any changes to the program that would take place after the initial rulemaking process. Such issues as advanced biometrics, the use of RFID, and international data sharing are simply too important to be left in the hands of future unelected or non-governmental agents. If not repealed, any replacement for REAL ID must contain extensive and detailed provisions regarding what DHS can not do in the future or it will simply be a blank check.
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RFID DATA
SNIFFED
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LAS VEGAS — It’s one of the most hostile hacker environments in the country –- the DefCon hacker conference held every summer in Las Vegas.
But despite the fact that attendees know they should take precautions to protect their data, federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader.
The reader, connected to a web camera, sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks as they passed a table where the equipment was stationed in full view.
It was part of a security-awareness project set up by a group of security researchers and consultants to highlight privacy issues around RFID. When the reader caught an RFID chip in its sights — embedded in a company or government agency access card, for example — it grabbed data from the card, and the camera snapped the card holder’s picture.
This year they planned to add data collected from the RFID reader and camera (below) — to raise awareness about a privacy threat that’s becoming increasingly prevalent as RFID chips are embedded into credit cards, employee access cards, state driver’s licenses, passports and other documents.
You have probably heard of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in many different contexts. RFID describes a broad range of technologies that allow the identification and tracking of physical items using radio waves, and have far-reaching implications for processes as wide-ranging as factories, hospitals, airports, battlefields and retail sales.
RFID The Right Frequency for Government IBM
The integration of RFID technology with other information technology makes a paradigm shift now possible. RFID technology can track patient safety by error-proofing processes for medication, as well as providing global visibility of worldwide shipments, which will improve the flow of commerce and the security of nations. The future role of RFID will dramatically increase its impact over that of its predecessors.
The potential of RFID is indeed great. The supply chain management industry refers to the “three V’s of RFID”: visibility, velocity, and value. RFID promises to increase visibility to make earlier and better decisions and actions possible. Second, RFID will enable the flow of goods and information to be accelerated, with a higher certainty of information for decision making. Finally, RFID will enable important enhancement of value, often in new ways. As described by Professor Wyld, RFID offers the potential to provide increased safety for patients, faster movement of automobiles from manufacturer to dealer, and greater national security.
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COMMENTARY
MARK LERNER
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| September 27, 2009 |
In The News
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The Big Question - should government control the people or should the people control government?
Orwell’s prediction of a future big brother government came true. Whether acknowledged or not, Americans now live in a surveillance society.
Most of that American public falls into one of the categories the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calls “potential threats;” environmentalists, animal lovers, anti-war protestors, pro-lifers, evangelical Christians, observant Jews, Constitutionalists, returning veterans, and third party candidate supporters are all “potential domestic terrorists.”
Just how far is the American public willing to let the government go in order to assure public safety? Do the people want the police on every block, all emails read by the government, phone calls overheard, or every financial transaction monitored? Do the people want sensors placed in cities that detect how much an individual perspires, in order to assess and monitor supposed guilt?
How about computer software programs that decide whether or not the way people walk or dress presents a threat to the government? In Britain citizens are captured on surveillance cameras an average of 300 times a day; does the American public want to be subjected to this level of scrutiny?
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SENSITIVE DATA BASE INFORMATION JEOPARDIZED
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| March 6, 2009 |
In The News
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A Fox 5 investigation exposes a worldwide ATM scam that swindled $9 million and possibly jeopardized sensitive information from people around the world. Law enforcement sources told Fox 5 it's one of the most frightening well-coordinated heists they've ever seen. (Watch video report)
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FUSION CENTERS
CONNECT DATA
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| March 1, 2009 |
In The News
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What Is the Fusion Process?
“The concept of fusion has emerged as the fundamental process to facilitate the sharing of homeland security-related and crime-related information and intelligence. For purposes of this initiative, fusion refers to the overarching process of managing the flow of information and intelligence across levels and sectors of government. It goes beyond establishing an intelligence center or creating a computer network. The fusion process supports the implementation of risk-based, information-driven prevention, response, and consequence management programs. At the same time, it supports efforts to address immediate and/or emerging threat-related circumstances and events. Data fusion blends data from different sources, including law enforcement, public safety, and the private sector, resulting in meaningful and actionable intelligence and information. The fusion process also allows for relentless reevaluation of existing data in context with new data in order to provide constant updates. The fusion process turns information and intelligence into actionable knowledge.” Page 2; Version 1.0 - Version Date: July 25, 2005
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GOOGLE MAPS
TRACKS PEOPLE
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| February 8, 2009 |
In The News
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“The new software to be released Wednesday will enable people with mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends…..
"This adds a social flavor to Google maps and makes it more fun," said Steve Lee, a Google product manager…..
It could also raise privacy concerns, but Google is doing its best to avoid a backlash by requiring each user to manually turn on the tracking software and making it easy to turn off or limit access to the service……
Google also is promising not to retain any information about its users' movements. Only the last location picked up by the tracking service will be stored on Google's computers, Lee said…..
There are no current plans to sell any advertising alongside Google's tracking service; although analysts believe knowing a person's location eventually will unleash new marketing opportunities. Google has been investing heavily in the mobile market during the past two years in an attempt to make its services more useful to people when they're away from their office or home computers…..”- By Michael Liedtke
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REAL ID
IN THE NEWS
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| September 8, 2008 |
In The News
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August 24, 2008 - NewsWithViews.com
"History offers many examples of societies which have sought to increase security by sacrificing freedom. America itself provides many pertinent instances. However, our founding fathers have not left us without wisdom on this issue. Ben Franklin has famously stated, "People willing to trade freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
REAL ID undoubtedly exemplifies a scenario in which a difficult tension exists between freedom and security. By commandeering every state's driver's license issuing process, REAL ID threatens the results warned by Franklin - loss of both freedom and security. It has become the biometric enrollment phase of a plan to implement a terribly invasive tracking system, largely without public knowledge or approval.
REAL ID is merely the current face of a far larger, international government and private economic effort to collect, store, and distribute the sensitive biometric data of citizens to use for the twin purposes of government tracking and economic control.
At issue are much more than standardized or non-duplicative driver's licenses. This effort extends worldwide, threatening every person alive today. Although very legitimate security concerns exist in this age of terrorism, this Act extends far beyond terrorism prevention or protection of the innocent. Keeping that broad picture in mind, let us move to some background behind the face of REAL ID implementation in America."......
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HOMELAND SECURITY
RECORDS RETENTION
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| August 23, 2008 |
In The News
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"The priority mission of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is to prevent terrorists and terrorists' weapons from entering the country while facilitating legitimate travel and trade.
BCI will maintain border crossing information on travelers who are admitted or paroled into the United States, this information includes: Certain biographical information; a photograph (if available); certain itinerary information provided by air and sea carriers and any other forms of passenger transportation, including rail, which is or may subsequently be mandated, or is or may be provided on a voluntary basis; and the time and location of the border crossing.
Previously, maintenance of this information was covered by the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS) ``system of records notice.'' See 66 FR 52984, dated October 18, 2001. As part of DHS's ongoing effort to increase transparency regarding the collection of information at the Department, as well as its efforts to specifically review the personally identifiable information maintained on the TECS information technology platform, DHS and CBP have identified different data sets that call for individual notices so as to provide appropriate routine uses, retention, and exemptions to the Privacy Act."
"At the time of arrival at the border, the travel document, either through a CBP Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Reader reading a unique RFID number from the RFID chip contained in the travel document, or through the CBP Machine Reader reading the MRZ of the travel document, will be used to retrieve the biographical data and photograph associated with the travel document from NEDS and populate a record in BCI, following admission/parole, to permit CBP to electronically verify identity and citizenship, to perform law enforcement queries to identify security risks to the United States and to expedite CBP processing upon arrival in and prior to departure from the United States.
Upon admission/parole of the individual by CBP at the United States border or its functional equivalent, a record of the crossing will be created in BCI.
Prior to mission/parole and during the process of inspecting the individual, information relating to identity and citizenship is compiled by the CBP in TECS, as part of the screening process to determine admissibility. For records where traveler-specific information is accessed from a non-federal authority's travel document database at the time of the traveler's crossing, the biographical data and photograph will be first collected from the traveler by the issuing authority of the respective travel document and the issuing authority will maintain its own travel document database; the data from such issuing authorities will not reside in NEDS.
At the time of arrival at the border, the travel document, either through a CBP RFID Reader reading the RFID number from the RFID chip contained in the travel document, or through the CBP Machine Reader reading the MRZ of the travel document, will be used to access that traveler's biographic data and photograph, displaying it in TECS; upon admission to the United States, that data will be recorded in BCI.
CBP also uses this information to perform law enforcement queries to identify security risks to the United States and to expedite CBP border processing. For records where the information is provided by another component of DHS or another federal government authority, such as the State Department's Visa and Passport database or USCIS Permanent Resident Card data, the information will be transferred from the federal authority's or DHS's system of records, displayed in TECS, and then used to create a record in BCI at the time of admission or parole into the United States."
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INTEGRATED
INTELLIGENCE
ENTERPRISE
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| August 10, 2008 - Read this and then ask if REAL ID isn't destined as a Global System |
In The News
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 Vision 2015 – A Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence Enterprise (10MB)
Strategy:
Integrate foreign, military, and domestic intelligence capabilities through policy, personnel and technology actions to provide decision advantage to policy makers, warfighters and homeland security officials and law enforcement personnel.- J.M. McConnell - Director of National Intelligence
We live in a dynamic world in which the pace, scope, and complexity of change are increasing. The continued march of
globalization, the growing number of independent actors, and advancing technology have increased global connectivity, interdependence and complexity, creating greater uncertainties, systemic risk and a less predictable future. These changes have led to reduced warning times and compressed decision cycles. Although this interconnected world offers many opportunities for technological innovation and economic growth, it also presents unique challenges and threats. In this environment, the key to achieving lasting strategic advantage is the ability to rapidly and accurately anticipate and adapt to complex challenges.
Not only will the type of customer change within our existing federal policy-making sets, but the range of customers will broaden to emphasize other federal departments (e.g., Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Commerce), state and local agencies, international organizations, and private sector and non-governmental organizations.
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FREEDOM21 CONFERENCE
GLOBAL TRACKING SYS.
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| August 2, 2008 |
In The News
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Global Information Infrastructure for the Global Supply Chain
A Presentation of OK-SAFE, Inc. 2008 In Collaboration with V.L. Davis & D. Niwa, Researchers
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STOP REAL ID
LERNER & BROWN
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| July 13, 2008 |
In The News
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Public Participation
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) invites interested persons to participate in this rulemaking by submitting written comments or data, and has requested comments on specific portions of this rulemaking as described in section VI below. We also invite comments relating to the economic, environmental, energy, or federalism impacts that might result from this rulemaking action.
REAL ID Drivers License Agreement DLA
Uniformity among all member jurisdictions concerning the exchange of information on driver licenses, identification cards, records, convictions, withdrawals and other data related to the driver licensing process;
REAL ID Memo DLA Implementation Funding 6-15-06
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