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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:and if your name is written on said panties by prichardson · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.