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    North Carolina Residents: Real ID Guinea Pigs

    North Carolina Residents: Real ID Guinea Pigs
    By Jim Palmer
    August 8, 2007


    A couple of Days ago, I received a phone call from an aide from the office of Representative Jim Guest of Missouri. Jim Guest had recently been to North Carolina, to make more people aware of the Real ID and its negative impact.

    Their mission of teaching soon turned into a shocking discovery. While in Raleigh, Representative Guest held up his driver's license to demonstrate what information the current driver's licenses have on them and how much information can be held in a one-dimensional bar code, compared to a two-dimensional bar code. He pointed out that a one-dimensional bar code can hold the information that is on the front of the license. This includes your name, address, license number, etc. A two-dimensional bar code holds enough information to fill a set of encyclopedias.

    Before Representative Guest could finish his talking points, a man stood up and said, "My license doesn't have any of that", referring to the one-dimensional bar code. Jim's aide asked him when he obtained his license and he informed the aide it was very recent. The aide looked it over and said that it had the two-dimensional bar code and even more interestingly, it had a hologram with the headlights of a car and an outline of North America. Holograms are often used as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip.

    The danger of RFID technology is that anyone with a scanner can walk by a person with the license and gather their information. That information could include their name, address, date of birth, fingerprints, digital image, social security number and any other information put on the RFID chip.

    I was not able to reach anyone by phone at the NC Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), who would or could confirm that driver's licenses are now being issued with a RFID. In fact, no one at the DMV (at least those that I spoke with on the telephone) seemed to know what an RFID chip is.

    However, I did reach an examiner in a Wake County Drivers License Office who said North Carolina does use RFID Technology and that she thought it had been in use since November of 2006. I spoke with another DMV employee in Raleigh who informed me that I would need to contact Marge Howell in the communications office. I have tried several times to reach Ms. Howell and only get voicemail. I will post an update after I speak with her.

    In a blog posted March 01, 2007 by Jay Ovittore of Greensboro, he describes his run in with the DMV. "I went and got my new NC drivers license today at the local DMV. I had to get my address changed. Come to find out the new issue NCDL has a RFID chip in it. Not only can RFID technology be used to track a location of what it is in, but it can store information as well. It is easily hackable, if you can even call something so easy a hack, with a RFID scanner, which for a price is available to the general public. So I had some questions. I asked the DMV officer if they had any literature for what is going to be stored on the RFID chip, you know like my social security #. I was told, 'What is being stored on the RFID chip's is not going to be public information'. I raised a little hell and then left before I got myself arrested by the Gestapo like officials. "

    In the Charlotte City-Data forum one user posted their experience with the New North Carolina Driver's License.

    "It was a sad day for me today as I called the local DMV. My cousin showed me her Renewed drivers licenses yesterday, and to my surprise there on the back was a new type of hologram. However as I came to find out today thru DMV sources it's not just a hologram it in fact is a new trackable chip. They said in fact it was a new homeland security project for this state. The officer also said that the cards which are trackable is just the first step in the new project, she also stated that other states had their own projects but that eventually all states would in fact be merged into the same system. This news shocked me to say the least but she also added that they were in fact doing facial recognitions as well to go into the database. However, before answering my questions she had a couple of her own such as, why do you want to know? Have you been involved with fake ID's etc. etc. I laughed and assured her that in fact I was just a concerned citizen, and that I found it ironic how we are not the terrorists but that we have to submit to being treated as such. She however didn't seem amused. What as a nation have we allowed? Well as for me my drivers licenses don't expire until 2010, and until I move to a state that doesn't have such a policy or the policy itself is rescinded I'll stick with the ones I have!"

    Looking at these posts and getting the information from Representative Jim Guest makes me wonder if the people of North Carolina are being used as Guinea Pigs for the Department of Homeland Security and their implementation of the Real ID.

    I wonder how many North Carolinians are aware that they are broadcasting their private information, without even knowing it. How many of them know that an electronic stalker could track their every move? They may not even know that their information will be placed into a database accessible not only by law enforcement and all other DMV's in the United States but by the governments of Mexico and Canada.

    Homeland Security will be in charge of this massive data mine. However, they have yet to protect their own computers from being hacked more than 800 times in the past two years! Why would anyone in their right mind hand over all of their sensitive data to an arm of the government that cannot even manage its own systems?

    One final note, I can understand the correlation between having a pair of car headlights on your driver's license (even if it is just a clever way to mask the RFID chip), but why the outline of North America? Is this new driver's license going to be the North American ID that will replace the passport to enter Mexico or Canada? Perhaps this system is in place to help forge the way for the North American Union, which the mainstream media outlets are trying hard to ignore away into that black hole, which swallows up important information in favor of reporting the drunken misdeeds of the latest celebrity. Either way, this form of identification that has been proven to be fallible should not be used. The people of North Carolina need to demand that this stop immediately. The people of the United States of America ought to stand with them.

    Take Action before you have to renew your license Contact You Legislators at
    NC Senators: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/m ... ber=Senate

    NC House:
    http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/m ... mber=House

    Your federal Legislators both House and Senate can be located at
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    Here's another article I just found regarding this by typing in "NC drivers license real ID" at google.

    http://the-palest-ink.blogspot.com/2007 ... about.html

    Thursday, June 28, 2007
    North Carolina government brags about Real ID compliance



    If you live in North Carolina, you may have heard the expression "First in Freedom" a few times. That phrase
    has long been something of an unofficial second state motto here, to the extent that it used to appear on NC license
    plates where they now say "First in Flight." The history of the phrase dates to something called the Mecklenburg
    Declaration - an event which is debated by historians - where a group of citizens in Mecklenburg County, NC were the
    first Americans to declare independence from Great Britian.



    Whether that even happened as reported or not, there is no doubt that North Carolina and it's people have a
    long history of embracing Freedom and Liberty as core values. Now however, we see that corruption and decay
    have reduced this once proud state to a level where state official are *bragging* about their compliance with
    a totalitarian National ID law passed by the Federal government in 2005.



    Now, living in a state which - by all rights - should have been the FIRST state to reject this law, we have our
    state officials making statements like this:






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    Therefore, North Carolina is preparing as best it can to come into compliance with the law by May 2008.


    North Carolina has made many strides since early 2004 as part of Governor Easley’s Operation Stop Fraud.



    On February 2, 2004 we implemented new, tougher standards for proof of identification. These new standards restricted the use of ID documents to those which could be verified as needed. The standards restricted the acceptance of foreign documents, except for the use of valid, unexpired foreign passports.



    In early 2004, the Division implemented verification of Social Security Numbers. In 2005, we implemented fraudulent document recognition training, requiring all examiners and License and Theft inspectors to complete a nationally-certified 20-hour course. Later that year, we implemented the use of face recognition technology, which has proven extremely valuable. A year ago, we also began tying the expiration date of a driver license to the expiration date of the Visa for customers with visas. On August 28, we implemented the new law eliminating the use of ITINs.



    We have also implemented the use of an OVD overlay on the face of the license. Later this year, we will be the first state in the nation to implement the use of the new common security element recommended for all states. This will be an OVD patch on the back of the license.



    As a result of North Carolina’s actions, there are many parts of the REAL ID law that North Carolina is already in compliance with.






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    Now having seen North Carolina's reaction to Real ID, let's examine what our neighbors in South Carolina had to say:






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    AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1, TITLE 56, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 56-1-85 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE SHALL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FEDERAL REAL ID ACT.


    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:



    Nonparticipation



    SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:



    "Section 56-1-85. The State shall not participate in the implementation of the federal REAL ID Act."




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    There you go. Short, sweet and to the point. Now, are we here in North Carolina going to sit back and accept that South Carolinians love Freedom
    more than we do? I, for one, say most emphatically "NO." I say it is time for us to take action, one way or another. This rampant abuse by the Federal government must not be allowed to stand, and
    North Carolina should be at the front of the pack in opposing this unconscionable nonsense. So to all you reading this, I ask that you
    please contact your House and Senate representatives in the NC General Assembly and askdemand that NC pass
    a resolution mirroring the one passed by South Carolina (and Utah, Maine, and several other states as well).



    It's time for North Carolina to retake her place as a shining beacon of Liberty and Freedom. And if the leaders we have
    in place now won't acknowledge that, it is time to remove them from power.



    Posted by Phillip Rhodes at 9:28 PM
    "If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within."
    -- James Madison


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    Thanks AmericansNeverQuit,
    All states should adopt what SC has done.
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    OK Here we go


    01.22.2007
    News / N.C. First To Add Driver's License Security Feature
    The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is the first driver's license agency in the United States and Canada to add a new design feature to driver's licenses. According to NCDMV spokesperson Marge Howell, the design will increase security, protect against document fraud and aid law enforcement officials in identifying suspects.

    Mrs. Howell said that all North Carolina law enforcement agencies will be receiving notification of the new driver's license design in the next few weeks.

    She said the licenses are being fitted with an optical variable device on the back that serves as a common security element. The OVD is a foil-based holographic security patch that carries design features both visible and invisible to the human eye, including a variety of codes, numbers, 3-D and fluorescent images and other items.

    "Although the new license does include some features that aren't visible to the human eye, officials will not need special reader equipment," Mrs. Howell said. "If there is a question about the validity of a license the official may bring it in for closer examination and testing."

    NCDMV officials say the new licenses, which will eventually be used all over the United States and in Canada, will take several years to distribute.

    "More than 1.5 million driver licenses will be renewed in North Carolina next year," Commissioner of Motor Vehicles George Tatum said in the monthly NCDOT Employee Newsletter, "and this added feature will enhance security and help protect against fraud."

    Mrs. Howell said the new OVD is another step taken by the North Carolina Legislature to ensure homeland security and will help prevent illegal aliens from obtaining driver's licenses in the United States.


    "Since 9/11, 2001 it has gotten harder for illegals to obtain a valid license in North Carolina," Mrs. Howell said. "After 9/11 the North Carolina Legislature began taking steps each session to make the licensing procedure more secure.

    "In 2004 they passed a law that disallows most documents from foreign countries unless they have a United States stamp of approval," she said. "Currently only a Social Security card, a valid unexpired driver's license or a U.S.-stamped visa will serve as identification.

    "The new officiating device will certainly make it more difficult for an illegal or any other individual to represent a fraudulent driver's license as valid," said Mrs. Howell. "These new licenses are very hard to duplicate."

    She said the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators came up with the OVD device to establish a common element that officiates the license as made by a motor vehicle agency. This common element will assist law enforcement agents, airport security and others who use driver's licenses to identify individuals.

    "The added device is expected to cost 17.2 cents per license issued," Mrs. Howell said. "The cost of adding the device will be covered by NCDMV funds."

    North Carolina licenses with the new security patch are being issued initially at the Avent Ferry Road driver's license office in Raleigh and will be delivered to other offices across the state over the next few months.



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    L-1 Identity Solutions Receives Contract Extensions Totaling

    L-1 Identity Solutions Receives Contract Extensions Totaling Nearly $20 Million from the States of Illinois and North Carolina to Produce Secure Digital Driver's Licenses

    L-1 Identity Solutions will continue to provide production and face recognition systems to assist states' efforts in ensuring secure driver's license issuance and reducing identity fraud

    STAMFORD, Conn., Jul 16, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:ID), a leading provider of identity solutions and services, received contract extensions totaling nearly $20 million from Illinois and North Carolina to produce secure digital driver's licenses. The contracts are extensions of existing agreements between the states and Viisage, the Secure Credentialing Division of L-1 Identity Solutions.

    "We strive to form long-term partnerships with our customers to provide them with the best solutions and services that scale to fit their needs and that ensure they solve all of their identity-related challenges," said Robert V. LaPenta, Chairman, President and CEO of L-1 Identity Solutions. "We are proud to partner with such forward-thinking states as Illinois and North Carolina and play a vital role in helping them produce a more secure license for their citizens."

    The Illinois contract is valued at over $16 million and will provide a digital driver's license issuance system and associated technologies. The state expects to produce more than 3.6 million cards annually using advanced credentialing and facial biometric technology from L-1 Identity Solutions.

    The contract is a three-year extension of an existing agreement signed ten years ago between the Illinois office of the Secretary of State and Viisage. In it, L-1 Identity Solutions provides for the enrollment of applicant information, printing and personalization of driver's licenses, facial recognition capabilities and associated hardware, software and printing consumables, as well as a secure inventory management system for the state.

    The Secure Credentialing Division of L-1 Identity Solutions originally began work with the state of Illinois in 1997, implementing the first face recognition solution to be used by any US state in driver's license production and in law enforcement. As an innovator for the U.S. driver's license market beginning in the early 1990's, L-1 Identity Solutions' companies laid the foundation for the use of face recognition technology in the production of state IDs and licenses. Providing end-to-end solutions for state driver's licenses issuance operations, the Company has a track record of successfully implementing a wide range of solutions on time and within budget across 20 states today.

    The contract with the state of North Carolina is a twelve-month extension of an existing agreement signed ten years ago between the state and Viisage. In it, the Secure Credentialing Division of L-1 Identity Solutions will provide for the ongoing enrollment of applicant information, printing and personalization of driver's licenses, facial recognition capabilities and associated hardware, software and printing consumables, as well as a secure inventory management system for the state. The state estimates the production of 2.4 million driver's licenses and state identification cards per year for a contract value estimated at over $3.6 million.

    L-1 Identity Solutions assisted North Carolina in becoming the first state in the nation to increase the security of its driver's licenses by incorporating the high security OVD (optical variable device) into its driver's license card in 2006.


    About L-1 Identity Solutions

    L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ID), together with its portfolio of companies, offers a comprehensive set of products and solutions for protecting and securing personal identities and assets. Leveraging the industry's most advanced multi-modal biometric platform for finger, face and iris recognition, our solutions provide a circle of trust around all aspects of an identity and the credentials assigned to it -- including proofing, enrollment, issuance and usage. With the trust and confidence in individual identities provided by L-1 Identity Solutions, government entities, law enforcement and border management agencies, and commercial enterprises can better guard the public against global terrorism, crime and identity theft fostered by fraudulent identity. L-1 Identity Solutions is headquartered in Stamford, CT. For more information, visit www.L1ID.com.

    Forward Looking Statements

    This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this press release and those made from time to time by L-1 Identity Solutions through its senior management are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's current views based on management's beliefs and assumptions and information currently available. Forward-looking statements concerning future plans or results are necessarily only estimates, and actual results could differ materially from expectations. Certain factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, among other things, the availability of government funding for L-1's products and solutions, the size and timing of contract awards, performance on existing and future contracts, general economic and political conditions and other factors affecting spending by customers, and the unpredictable nature of working with government agencies. Additional risks and uncertainties are described in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings of the L-1 Identity Solutions, including the Company's Form10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007. L-1 Identity Solutions expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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    SOURCE: L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc.

    L-1 Identity Solutions
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    dfordyce@L1ID.com

    Copyright Business Wire 2007

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    http://www.l1id.com/index.php?option=co ... Itemid=107

    Driver’s License Solutions
    Leverage the solution trusted by DMV agencies that are ahead of the curve.

    Driver’s licenses not only grant the right to operate vehicles, but also enable privileges for everything from gaining access to personal finances, to travel and other everyday activities. As one of the main suppliers to DMV agencies in the United States today, L-1 Identity Solutions has been an innovator for the U.S. driver’s license market beginning in the early 1990s. With an installed base of over 60 central image servers, web servers, central production servers that store over 3 terrabytes of secure identity data, L-1 Identity Solutions has the breadth and experience to meet your needs in producing a high integrity driver’s license while fighting identity fraud and theft.

    With L-1 Identity Solutions, DMV agencies get a partner that:

    * Has a demonstrated and flawless track record of implementing a wide range of driver’s license solutions on time and within budget in 20 states
    * Understands the challenges that DMV agencies face in upgrading systems and business processes to comply with new REAL ID regulations
    * Provides full range capabilities including facial recognition and AutoTestâ„¢ to reduce fraud and maximize efficiencies
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    http://www.l1id.com/images/stories/Prod ... 061116.pdf

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    Creating Trusted Security throughout the Driver’s License Process
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    If Anyone wants to hear radio Broadcast Rep Jim Guest did on the subject, here are a couple of downloads for you to listen to.

    Hour 1
    http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/ ... ke_A_Stand


    Hour 2
    http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/ ... ke_A_Stand
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    JP, I wanted to take a moment and thank you for all the information
    on these rfid chips.I could hardly finish the first post before I checked my own DL.I find this rfid stuff terrifying. I don't see any info on this
    anywhere else.Thank You.
    Also-on the news last evening they were showing bits of the candidates debate and on some kind of shield,wall-hanging thing in the background
    there was something that said AFL-CIO (I'm not sure I have the letters right)
    but anyway there was the letters w/ two hands clasped in the center and a map of Canada,the US and Mexico.It made me a might concerned.



    Head 'em up,move 'em out Rawhide!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rawhide
    JP, I wanted to take a moment and thank you for all the information
    on these rfid chips.I could hardly finish the first post before I checked my own DL.I find this rfid stuff terrifying. I don't see any info on this
    anywhere else.Thank You.
    Also-on the news last evening they were showing bits of the candidates debate and on some kind of shield,wall-hanging thing in the background
    there was something that said AFL-CIO (I'm not sure I have the letters right)
    but anyway there was the letters w/ two hands clasped in the center and a map of Canada,the US and Mexico.It made me a might concerned.



    Head 'em up,move 'em out Rawhide!
    Glad to Help. AFL-CIO is a union. they do cater to the illegals. Sounds like the clasping hands with the North American Map shows how they want everyone to continue saying North America instead of separating the three countries. Watch the news and you will hear them say North America when referring to either US, Canada and Mexico. I have even see labels which read made in North America.

    I will get to the bottom of this RFID on our drivers licenses.
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