I was bored, as usual, and decided I might try something out of utter curiosity. Yay! I know that in most passports, like my US one, there is a NFC chip inside containing, basically, what’s written inside the passport but on a chip which can be read by a computer easily which makes the US seem way cooler and richer to other countries than it really, actually is. Wow, just shot a bullet there! Anyway, I’m like, what about the Switch? So I pull my Switch out of the dock, miraculously saving the screen from a deep scratch from its own home, the dock, and put it on the table. I opened Settings, scrolled to amiibo, and clicked Register Owner (or whatever it says), and tapped my passport right on top of the right stick. And amazingly, or not so amazingly, nothing happened. I tried from multiple angles, from every side, but nothing. At airports, the passport easily scans with the reader that the immigration staff or ‘machine’ has, I don’t know why it wasn’t reading. It didn’t ven show an error or anything. Just, nothing. Other people, as my five minute research just told me, can easily scan their passports on their Android devices and see their passport photo and data, basically everything written inside the passport was now on their phone. Which really didn’t do anything. But my question is to you, NetNeutrals and ‘Tempers alike, why is the Switch not ‘noticing’ the passport? It’s NFC, there are no encryption thingees on the chip, as others are able to scan it easily, and there would be no point in the government encrypting the chip when you can open the passport anyway. And just imagine if someone rewrote a passport NFC chip with amiibo data. “Passport Amiibo Now A Thing!”
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AK47
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