Michelle Pilecki: Why You Might Want to Microwave Your Passport -- and Other Underreported Stories - The Huffington Post: "Thanks to Foreign Policy for the international flavor of the Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006, including the tidbit about the biometric passport with the easy-to-hack 'security' chip that leaves the owners vulnerable to identity theft. So far, the only 'solution' is to destroy the chip by zapping it."

Yahoo News - Schumer warns on no-swipe credit cards
AP reports, "No-swipe credit cards that use radio waves to relay their data put consumers at increased risk of identity theft, Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday."