It’s just a college paper, but this article shows how wide the knowledge gap is about RFID and card technologies. The duo prox is nothing like an ICAO passport and has only a fraction of the security risks. Prox cards operate on a different frequency than the proprosed passport chips and only pass 26 bits of information to the reader, barely enough for an unique identifier.

Comparing a true contactless smart card to a prox card is like comparing a computer to a calculator. Whole different scale.

Why care about a Dartmouth student article? In any deployed identity system, user education is critical. I am not suggesting that Dartmouth educate their population on the nuances of wiegand vs. 13.56, but the population should know the relative risks of using a system with only an abstract idenitifier and one with a large amount of freely readable identity information. Something to consider. Done right, Dartmouth continues to deploy their identity solutions without having to engage in big debate about what the State Department wants to do.

The Dartmouth Online