Re: You've Lost Privacy, Now They're Taking Anonymity
Reply #7 –
The RFID chip is (or should be) shielded with some metal, meaning it can only be read while open. So although the article answers
everything when asking whether "Så när jag går runt med mitt pass på flygplatsen, vad kan en duktig hacker göra?" (When I hunt/walk around the airport with my passport, what can a hacker get, or something like that

) the answer is a little less alarmist. It's when you walk around the airport with your passport open, that a hacker could "plocka ditt namn, ditt personnummer, ditt fingeravtryck, din ansiktsgeometri och i princip all annan information som är inskriven i passet." So the young guy sitting within ten meters would have to be sitting near the passport control or a check-in counter for maximum effect, or be satisfied with a very low yield of information.
Still, I'm surprised this stuff is supposed to work within as much as 10 meters. I'd have figured no more than a meter at most.