Homeland Security abandoning RFID

WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Friday told a House committee hearing his department is dropping plans for RFID tags. Chertoff told the Homeland Security Committee hearing on his department's budget a test of radio frequency identification tags was unsuccessful.

"I think, yeah, we're abandoning it. I think it's not — that's not going to be a solution" for keeping would-be terrorists out of the United States, Chertoff said.