Aim well, my friend
Instructables has a detailed discussion on how to disable an RFID tag in a passport or other radio-enabled item. The bottom line? Smash the bugger with a hammer.
-The last (and most covert) method for destroying a RFID tag is to hit it with a hammer. Just pick up any ordinary hammer and give the chip a few swift hard whacks. This will destroy the chip, and leave no evidence that the tag has been tampered with. This method is suitable for destroying the tags in passports, because there will be no proof that you intentionally destroyed the chip.
Why anyone would want to remove the Mark of the Beast from their passports is beyond me, but if you’re one of those free-love, free-info hippies, feel free to break the law. Just don’t expect us to bail you out of Gitmo.
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This is an extremely stupid idea.
Yes, we all hate Big Brother and his technology which follows us everywhere. But this is just asking for trouble.
On the US border at LA last year I was stopped, and questioned for 30 mins about why my Canadian passport wasn’t chipped. Well… duh, because it’s old and I haven’t got a new one yet.
So if that’s the treatment you get for having an old passport, how would Customs treat your for having one with a chip which didn’t work for ’some reason’?
The antenna in the tag could become detached from the silicon from normal wear-and-tear in your back pocket as well (bending back and forth)