UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 6, 2009 @08:50PM from the but-it's-secure-says-so-right-on-the-label dept.

Death Metal writes with this excerpt from Computer Weekly, which casts some doubt on the security of the UK's proposed personal identification credential: "The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning. The newspaper hired computer expert Adam Laurie to test the security that protects the information embedded in the chip on the card. Using a Nokia mobile phone and a laptop computer, Laurie was able to copy the data on a card that is being issued to foreign nationals in minutes."

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Re:Advertizing by Canazza · 2009-08-06 21:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'd honestly rather have and N97 than an iPhone, atleast I don't have to pay them to develop apps for it :P

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