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:The thing that no one ever thinks of.. by raju1kabir · 2009-08-06 21:49 · Score: 1, Redundant

RTFA please. They altered the information on the cloned card and it read true. Clearly there is either no, or a very weak, cryptographic validation mechanism.

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