1 I don't know enough about it to be scared. What information is on the chip that isn't on the pages of the passport itself? Birthday? Check. Height? Weight? Check. (Even fairly accurate.) But my passport won't expire until 2011, and I like watching privacy nuts get all nutty.

2 well considering that anyone with a reader could get enough info to steal your identity (name, address, SSN, Birthday) as they pass you in the airport, yeah, not so good. Hammer time. Of course, I don't even have one right now.

3 It's one thing that the person who checks your passport knows you're American: it's worse when anyone you pass on the street might know that too, if they are carrying the right equipment. After all, we aren't that popular in some quarters.

4 You can just keep your passport in a (conductive) metal sleeve--a Faraday Cage(Gauss Cage). I bet there would be a market for a LMA passport 'wallet', featuring the avatar of our fearless leader. Store that in a LMA metal cigarette-type case, and you will be all set for any eventuality. Supplies limited by demand, of course. Forget the hammer. No profit in that.

5 Ah, to have been rich enough when I was young, or to have enough time now that I'm no longer poor, to ever have required a passport....

6 Attila. Miss. Attila. Shaken, not stirred.

7 I might be in the market for a LMA 'everyday' wallet, too, now that credit card companies are using RFID chips. http://www.difrwear.com/products.shtml It's great that thief can steal my credit info at 50 paces now. Thanks AE, Visa and MasterCard!!! Something like in that link. Only in the LMA brand-- with a higher price, of course. If AG has a talk with Q, maybe she can come up with a line of products that can protect against EMPs, too. I suggest using MuShield-- http://www.mushield.com/sample_kits.html technology for that. I wouldn't want my electronic crap damaged in the case of a nuclear attack. Where would I get my tunes or my porn? MI6 girl, really? I would have pictured you a Bond villain or Bond Girl with that first name and all. Lots of possibilities there.

8 My SS number on the chip: not cool. The rest could probably be found about me with a few Google searches.