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UK RFID Passports Cracked, Sorta...

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I think I’ll be keeping our latest UK passport renewals under a tinfoil hat.

Seriously.

Techdirt reports:

There’s been an odd rush by governments to move to RFID passports, even though there are serious concerns about how secure they really are. Over in the UK, where many RFID passports are already in use, a security researcher and a reporter were able to crack some aspects of the passport. It is, admittedly, a limited crack, but it could potentially be used to make a clone RFID chip for a counterfeit passport.

Noone saw that coming

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andy said:

Yeah very sorta... though as always these things would be better if they actually got these security experts in before hand. Of course that would delay the project and someone would get rich off it I'm sure...

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