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Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards

Posted by timothy on from the clearly-unpossible dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Washington have found that RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the US are vulnerable to snooping and copying. The information in these tags could be copied on to another, off-the-shelf tag, which might be used to impersonate the legitimate holder of the card." You can also read the summary of the researchers' report.

2 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. Elvis by Krneki · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, if I want to be Elvis all I need is one of those new passports.

    Cool.

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  2. How should I respond to this? by retech · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. I am shocked!
    2. I am outraged!
    3. I am indignant!
    4. Tubes, what tubes?
    5. This is why I wrap all my important body parts in tinfoil.
    6. Why didn't we know about this sooner?
    7. If it's not on BoingBoing I don't believe it.

    Please, someone in authority with intelligence tell me what to think about this. Oh.. wait... that's never going to happen is it.