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E-Passport Cloned In Five Minutes
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."
If my name is written on someone else's panties, I demand to know why!
ob Simpsons:
Skinner: Oh, it's a miracle no one was hurt.
Otto: I stand on my record - fifteen crashes and not a single fatality!
Lou: Let's see your license, pal.
Otto: No can do. Never got one. But, if you need proof of my identity, I wrote my name on my underwear... Oh wait, these aren't mine!
Skinner: Well that tears it! Until you get a license and wear your own underwear, mister, you are suspended without pay!
Help I'm a rock.
they will now classify panty theifs as sex offenders
Thank God stealing a bra is still ok...I was worried for a second there.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Throw the researchers in jail for showing the weakness in the system. Problem solved!
I'm sorry, but you'd have to be a pretty pathetic mugger if you can't spot a foreign tourist without using a bunch of fancy electronic equipment. Why back in my day...