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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:"Number of the Beast" nonsense by randomblast · · Score: 1, Redundant

    > I do not for a second believe that it has anything to do with national id card proposals.

    Correct. So why do you mention it?

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