Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes

Death Metal Maniac writes "New microchip passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft failed the test when a researcher was able to manipulate one in minutes. The cloned passports were accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports. According to the article: 'A computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.'"

Comments

Misleading info?

[Daemonic]

The article contains the line:

Many of the 9/11 bombers had travelled on fake passports.

Now I could be wrong, but I thought all the 9/11 bombers were legally allowed to be where they were, and were using valid documents?

I think what might have been the case is that they HAD used fake passpports in the past. The way this phrases it though suggests that a better implementation might have helped avoid 9/11, which is news to me.