Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 6, 2008 @11:57PM from the unsafe-at-any-customs-counter dept.

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.'"

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Re:Why be a hacker... by gilbertopb · 2008-08-07 00:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sometimes to be a "espectable "computer researcher" means being part of the same social club. About the passport, what's wrong with the paper docs ?

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Re:Don't worry... by SaturnNiGHTS · 2008-08-07 00:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

don't you mean "MC Hammer"?

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