Another Setback for Biometric Passports

trydk writes "The Register has an article on the lack of security in biometric passports. This time, according to Dutch TV program Nieuwslicht (Newslight), the Dutch biometric passports have been cracked, potentially revealing all biometric information stored in them." From the article: "[...] an attack can be executed from around 10 meters and the security broken, revealing date of birth, facial image and fingerprint, in around two hours. Riscure notes that that the speed of the crack is aided by the Dutch passport numbering scheme being sequential."

Comments

Re: Precision & Recall

[Black Parrot]

> I want to be able to sit down with the numbers and see what happens to the F-measure when I slide beta between zero and one.

What page of the Kama Sutra are you referring to? I can't find any of that stuff in the index.

So now what will they propose us? to get chipped?

[master_p]

*Tinfoil hat on*

Since biometric passports failed, are they gonna request us to get chipped? after all, it is for our own good.

Re:10 meters in 2 hours

[HTH NE1]

10 meters is about 33 feet, not 10 feet.

I guess I'd better not get a job at NASA.

At least I got it right in the subject.