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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. Easy to clone by SomethingOrOther · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Home Office spokesman.
    "If you were a criminal, you might as well just steal a passport."

     Missing the point dude.
    If my passport gets stolen, I report it. It gets cloned, I've no idea somebody is impersonating me, screwing up my life (and others).
    Please people, support NO2ID and tell Blair where to shove his flawed ID cards and CCTV cameras.

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