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British "Secure" Passports Cracked

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the trust-us dept.

hard-to-get-a-nickna writes "The Guardian has cracked the so-trumpeted secure British passports after 48 hours of work: 'Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?'"

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  1. Re:No surprise there then by mikerich · · Score: 5, Informative

    They should have called in the experts, Microsoft!

    Okay I know you're joking, but Microsoft have been one of the biggest critics of the UK government's ID card system as providing the ideal conduit for ID theft; so perhaps the Home Office really should have called them in.