US Deploys e-Passport readers

This in from SecurityFocus. Attention, all that didn’t heed Bruce Schneier’s call to renew your passport… It may be too late.

DHS said that it had completed deployment of the first U.S. e-Passports at the San Francisco International Airport. The move is the first in a series of deployments required to meet the October 26, 2006 congressional deadline requiring all U.S. ports of entry to compare and authenticate data in e-Passports.

As e-Passports become more prevalent, we’re just going to see more holes poked in them.

I’ve got kind of an interesting perspective, as my dad spent his whole career dealing with the problems of paper documents. In my opinion, e-Passports are neither completely evil, nor are they a silver bullet. It will still take excellent work by the individuals at our ports of entry to weed out illegal entrants.