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New German Government ID Hacked By CCC

Posted by timothy on from the danke-sehr-fuer-die-papieren dept.

wiedzmin writes "Public broadcaster ARD's show 'Plusminus' teamed up with the known hacker organization 'Chaos Computer Club' (CCC) to find out how secure the controversial new radio-frequency (RFID) chips were. The report shows how they used the basic new home scanners that will go along with the cards (for use with home computers to process the personal data for official government business) to demonstrate that scammers would have few problems extracting personal information. This includes two fingerprint scans and a new six-digit PIN meant to be used as a digital signature for official government business and beyond." That was quick. Earlier this year, CCC hackers demonstrated vulnerabilities in German airport IDs, too.

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  1. Sheiser! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Das CCC!!!

    How will we gas all the Jews now??? Nein! Nein!

    1. Re:Sheiser! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Does this hack work on Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows Phone 7? No? Then it's fucking bullshit. Why do you freetards insist on removing your noses despite your faces? Do you just tire of smelling your own bullshit? Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 are superior to this freetard shit in every possible way. You people disgust me with your Lunix and Crabble puke. Stealing the fruits of the billions of dollars Microsoft Research has invested in producing the intellectual property that you dorks so cavalierly pilfer to inject into your Gnom and KED and Quark shit. You all disgust me. You people need to look into the mirror and reevaluate your lives.

  2. FAILZOrS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first organization 4lso Dead, its to stick something We'll be able to