By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 21 August 2008
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Name
Chips
Location
UK
Occupation
Researcher
Comment
From a US newspaper article:
"Two European researchers have found a way to defeat the chips being placed in passports to eliminate fraud..."
"...was able in about four hours to decipher the key and use an RFID scanner to steal the digital information from a passport contained in a sealed envelope..."
"....He’s spent much of the last year going back and forth with the British government about just what exactly is and isn’t secure with the new passports.
'Every time they’ve said something is infallible we’ve proved them wrong'
From a US newspaper article:
"Two European rese...
Chips
It is a mystery to me why RFID was ever brought in...
Jeremy Wickins
two fallacies about e passports as expounded by po...
Karen Challinor
Indeed; applauded
Davidson Scott
From a very external view of the standards develop...
Anonymous
This is a clear case of a government requirement b...
Radical Meldrew
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