Posts Tagged ‘ Security ’

INTERPOL TRAVEL DOCUMENT (video)

28 December, 2012

INTERPOL has developed its first ever travel documents (e-Passport Booklet and e-Identification Card). These are intended to enable INTERPOL officials, chiefs of law enforcement agencies, heads of National Central Bureaus and staff to travel internationally on official INTERPOL business without requiring a visa when assisting in transnational investigations or urgent…

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NZ stamps new passport for Vanuatu

6 July, 2011
NZ stamps new passport for Vanuatu

NZ Herald News Vanuatu Prime Minister Edward Natapei used to arrive at international borders with his handwritten paper passport and be eyeballed by suspicious officials who asked him, “Vanua-where?” “The country of Vanuatu is not well known,” Mr Natapei said. “In South Africa, for example, I was held up for…

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Electronic Chip in the New US Passport (video)

3 July, 2011

How much better will the new US passports work now as they have an electronic chip implemented? Thanks to YahushaTheKing for this video! Earlier the US Government had some problems with it’s passport as there was some issues with the outsourced chip manufacturer in Thailand.

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Obama’s Passport Close Up (Video)

18 April, 2011

NO idea, if this this is real or made on April Fool’s Day – however enjoy

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Passkontrolle! Eine kritische Geschichte…

15 April, 2011
Passkontrolle! Eine kritische Geschichte…

… des sich Ausweisens und Erkanntwerdens. Thomas Claes, Vergangenheitsverlag, Berlin 2010, 140 Seiten, ISBN 978-3940621276, Preis: 14,90 Euro Ausweise, Pässe und andere Identifizierungstechniken haben eine Geschichte. Somit verändern sich auch die Praktiken des Identifizierens von Personen und die damit verbundenen Artefakte im Laufe der Zeit. Thomas Claes zeichnet in „Passkontrolle!…

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“Secure” e-passport (video)

8 April, 2011

Story by David Reid for BBC World showing how to clone Europe’s new “secure” e-passport (video)

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New US Passport Application Asks for Insane Details

24 March, 2011
New US Passport Application Asks for Insane Details

What was the address you lived at when you were two? What’s the phone number of the first job you even had? Do you remember the address of your primary school? How about the birth date and location of your stepfather? If you plan to apply for a passport and…

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ICAO specifications

16 March, 2011
ICAO specifications

ICAO  (International  Civil  Aviation  Organization) has defined specifications (document and chip characteristics) in it’s ICAO Doc 9303. That means that all ePassports are or will be uniform in time. We can say this is the biggest change since the League of  Nations 2.Passport Conference 1926 in Geneva/Switzerland where the first…

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INTERPOL passport?

15 March, 2011
INTERPOL passport?

Well, that was new for me but here is the evidence… validity 3 or 5 years, page 2 entry ‘Date of expiry’ booklet c. 125 x 88 mm / 4.9 x 3.5 in. 34 pages, page 1 and 2 not numbered laminate none photo integrated, repeated in imageperf numbering 6…

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Guide to Selected U.S. Travel and Identity Documents

24 November, 2010
US_Guide Travel documents

This guide is intended to assist those tasked with examining travel and employment authorization documents. It contains color photographs of the most commonly used documents, but it is not comprehensive. There are earlier valid revisions of some illustrated documents and other less common documents that are not illustrated here. Download…

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