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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Well... by larpon · 2008-08-07 00:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

that went well!
Yesterday's News Today! by FreeUser · 2008-08-07 00:15 · Score: -1, Redundant

This was all over the BBC News yesterday. What took so long?

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MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · 2008-08-07 01:23 · Score: -1, Redundant

At least one idiot moderator was fooled by the seemingly intelligent sounding technobabble that kingtonm posted. Don't make the same mistake.