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Hackers Clone E-Passport

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thank-heavens-for-black-hat dept.

mrops writes "I guess the skeptical Slashdot community always knew that e-passports are a big waste of time and money; now German security consultants have been able to successfully clone e-passports, even onto building access cards. FTA: 'The whole passport design is totally brain damaged,' Grunwald says. 'From my point of view all of these RFID passports are a huge waste of money. They're not increasing security at all.'"

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  1. German consultants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't German security consultants also specialize in building super-bunkers for Islamic terror states like Iran?

    And now they've compromised the future US passport as well?

    3 words to describe this -

    state sponsored terrorism.