E-Passport Cloned In Five Minutes

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 17, 2006 @01:50PM 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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Re:Was the Home Office spokesman an idiot? by Fulcrum+of+Evil · 2006-12-17 15:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

As such they shouldn't be allowed to hold jobs which give them unsupervised access to and influence over children.

Why? These are sex offenders, which is different from pedophiles. Why would a rapist be interested in your kids?

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Re:Was the Home Office spokesman an idiot? by nemoyspruce · 2006-12-17 16:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Says who? You? Heck, why don't we start arresting people for thought crimes, then? In a nation of laws, people get punished for what they actually do, not for some prediction of what they might or might not do in the future. Apparently, you prefer to live in a totalitarian nation, in which the state can charge anybody with absolutely anything if they just so please." Yeah! Apparently YOU dont deserve to be TIME person of the year! oh, was that in another thread..damn.
Re:Well then, by lixee · 2006-12-17 20:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just like it is hard to see why anyone would want to blow up an aircraft? I think that people are still thinking within the sandbox
Just like it is hard to see why anyone would invade a sovereign country? I think that people are still thinking about how US oil got under their sand.
Seriously, I'm not trying to troll here. The parent is insightful but dangerously narrow-minded.

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