Non justement. La portée dépend plus du détecteur que de la puce. Les détecteur standard ont une portée de quelques centimètres, mais des expériences ont montrées que l'on pouvait interroger les puces à plusieurs dizaines de mètres je crois.
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The State Department downplayed these risks by insisting that the RFID chips only work at short distances. In fact, last month's publication claims: "The proximity chip technology utilized in the electronic passport is designed to be read with chip readers at ports of entry only when the document is placed within inches of such readers." The issue is that they're confusing three things: the designed range at which the chip is specified to be read, the maximum range at which the chip could be read, and the eavesdropping range or the maximum range the chip could be read with specialized equipment. The first is indeed inches, but the second was demonstrated earlier this year to be 69 feet. The third is significantly longer.
[^] # Re: Dans la mesure ou ...
Posté par Nicolas Bernard (site web personnel) . En réponse au journal RFID: liberté, sécurité ?. Évalué à 2.
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