Biometric Passport can be Hacked in Four Hours
The UK, for fear of hordes of terrorists trying to destroy it's great democracy from within has been pushing for these new ultra-safe, super-protected passports to be the norm. Unfortunately for the group that designed them though, they're neither safe, nor protected:
Using a simple gadget built from parts bought on the Internet, it took the Mail less than four hours to copy the details from one passport.
More details on The Daily Mail.
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ted
25 Mar 2007, 9:13 p.m. |
RFID technology is notoriously insecure - there was a scam in North America with the "Quick Passes" (e.g. Mobil, Esso, etc.). Using off the shelf parts the information on the Quick Pass' RFID could
Daniel
26 Mar 2007, 4:31 a.m. |
Damn.
There's a bug in my code that blows up people's comments when they uses non-ASCII characters (like Microsoft's curly quotes) and I haven't been able to figure it out yet. That's probably what killed your comment part-way through.
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