In a recent speech, the DHS border chief displayed his stupidity by saying that he knew more about potato chips than RFID chips, claiming that he had no clue what the difference was between the two.  Despite his obvious ignorance, he continued to push his technology agenda, stating that there are no privacy worries with RFID.

During his talk, he described each of the RFID-chipped identification programs and sought to dismiss the need for privacy worries about the tactic. That’s because the chips don’t store any “personal information,” Basham said–just a unique identifying number that’s read from a distance by a border patrol agent’s reader and transmitted through the air. He said such “vicinity”-read ID cards were a proven means of vetting people at the borders and had been used in trusted traveler cards since 1995.

“We are tagging a number, not a human being,” he said. Referring to the Canadian and Mexican border-crossing cards, as well as the program for commercial truck drivers, he added: “SENTRI, NEXUS and FAST members do not have to worry about their personal ID or identity being stolen.”

What a buffoon!  He boasts that 325,000 truckers, who regularly cross the borders, have RFID based cards, yet he hasn’t a clue how they work, their degree of safety, or how easily they can be cracked.

These are the morons running our country and, yet, we still wonder why the world now hates us.