If you're the garage tinkerer type, there's a huge opportunity here.
RFID only works if the the stuff on the chip can be read by a "probe" of electromagnetic radiation (radio frequency energy). Therefore, the first guy to make and market a Faraday cage passport wallet will make a million.
Thank me later with a huge check.
The scariest thing about all this "security" work is that the sheeple of the U.S. are not reacting at all to the deprivation of their rights, Constitutional and otherwise.
Since when has it been the Feds' responsibility to protect individual citizens' safety? national defense yes, but personal security? If they're responsible for individual security, then each individual is also presumed to be a threat to the security of another...hence, Big Brother with his eye on your bank and his gloved finger up your anus.
Anarchy is starting to look more attractive than ever.
Oops...was this post too "political?" IMHO, any discussion of governmental action which detracts from our travel experience is worth discussing here, and since it's the government we're discussing I cannot see how one avoids discussion of politics.
I urge our membership to play the game, but to always hide a few cards up your sleeves. We're already seeing blatant violations of numerous rights, topped with shitty attitudes at TSA and Customs/Immigration/Letting in Illegals Freely departments.