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Don’t forget to read Bruce Sterling’s comment attached to the article.
It’s a good read.

UK RFID passports cracked: “Cory Doctorow:
UK security experts have cracked the sooper sekure new UK biometric passports. It took 48 hours. With £174 worth of sniffer hardware, attackers can read all the personal information off of any of the three million new UK passports in circulation — and if combined with demonstrated hacks for reading RFIDs at a distance, this could happen from across the room, or even farther. You can then clone the RFID and stick it in another passport (surprise! your identity is now owned by a terrorist!).

Among the many festivals happening in London this month, there is the London Jazz Festival.

I’ve skipped last year iteration, but attended the event 2 years ago where I’ve enjoyed the great saxophonist Jan Garbarek.

This year, I was there and on wednesday I’ve been to the Barbican to see 2 artists I’ve never heard about: Michel Camilo and Tomatito.

I had no expectation as I was clueless about what it was about.

And they started playing, and their first tune was a cover for Astor Piazzolla’s famous “Libertango”. It was a tremendous start. I love Piazzolla, so for me it was surprise, a very good surprise. This great start didn’t fad and the concert was fantastic.

apparently both are masters in their own domain (Camilo as a latin jazz pianist, Tomatito as flamenco guitarist), the marriage of their style was delightful to my ears.