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E-Passport Cloned In Five Minutes

Posted by kdawson on from the if-more-proof-were-needed dept.

Last month a panel of EU experts warned that the e-Passport's security is "poorly conceived", and in fact a week later a British newspaper demonstrated a crack. Now another researcher has shown how to clone a European e-Passport in under 5 minutes. A UK Home Office spokesman dismissed it all, saying "It is hard to see why anyone would want to access the information on the chip."

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  1. Re:Was the Home Office spokesman an idiot? by Miseph · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Something is just wrong with the UK's Home Office. Today I read that they will now classify panty theifs as sex offenders, receiving the same long-term classification on the sex offenders' registry as child abusers, rapists, and child pornographers.

    That's because stealing panties is a classic sign of a real sex offender getting up the courage to do something more serious. Unless I'm mistaken, and the purpose of this is to go after girls who steal from Victoria's Secret... but somehow I think not.
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  2. Re:Was the Home Office spokesman an idiot? by ronanbear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Today I read that they will now classify panty theifs as sex offenders, receiving the same long-term classification on the sex offenders' registry as child abusers, rapists, and child pornographers. Actually that's done with good reason. They are sex offenders and there is a high enough instance of such offenders going on to commit more serious offences to warrent classifying them as high risk. As such they shouldn't be allowed to hold jobs which give them unsupervised access to and influence over children. The sex offenders register is not about (and should never be about punishment). It's about protection. Keeps high risk individuals out of high risk occupations. It's the same as not wanting people with a criminal record in the police force. You want to be able to trust your policemen to be able to abide by the law, it's paramount. If you want to trust your children, the most precious thing you have, to someone then you don't want them to have ANY record.
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  3. Re:Well then by thesaintlives · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is all far to complicated, I know the real reason nobody would want to read this data: the british government welcomes imigrants with open arms, why bother to try and copy a passport - they give away the real ones in christmas crackers now!