Biometric passports cracked

[WalkerInTheWoods]

http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2161836/kacers-crack-biometric

Biometric passports used by the UK, US and other countries have been cloned by a German security consultant, raising further doubts over the £415m UK scheme.

Lukas Grunwald, a consultant with DN-Systems, told a Defcon security conference in Las Vegas that the data, stored on RFID chips, could be copied on to blank chips which could then be used in fake passports.

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[Stookie]

Ha! I knew it. RFID is crap technology. I've been saying it since the first I heard about it. And they want to use it for security. That's crazy talk.

[MisterJingo]

The UK doesn't issue biometric passports yet, although they will be very soon. I renewed my passport around 3 months ago, to get a traditional passport before I would be forced to get a biometric one.