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Holy crap, the new US passport design looks like a Colbert Report “let’s overdo it with the eagles and flags” pisstake!

FFS. Detailed explanation of the how’s and why’s of reading/cloning a UK RFID-chipped passport — which don’t even have the tinfoil protective cover that US passports will. “‘This doesn’t matter,’ says a Home Office spokesman.”

Joy’s new passport arrived yesterday (Yes, for our international travel on Friday. We Begbies are noted for our inability to have our passports ready far in advance of travel). Luckily, this means she’s avoiding the RFID nightmare for ten years.

British citizens — Renew your passport in May to guarantee yourself ten years before being forced onto the National ID database.