Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

two fallacies about e passports as expounded by politicians and UKIP

1 - they are secure no one can break the encryption and read the contents

wrong, as Chips pointed out in an earlier reply

2 - because they have a chip the epassport is now unforgeable and useless to criminals

wrong again, the data encryption method is known and a huge pile of blank, genuine epassports went missing recently, anyone seriously think they aren't being programmed as we speak
and even then whats to stop a sufficiently technically lliterate criminal group from developing their own chip that behaves in much the same way and sticking these in their own forged passports after all these things are worth a lot to the right or even the wrong people

plus if they steal a passport they can remove the chip and replace it while altering the rest of the details to suit

so basically the introduction of the epassport has forced the criminal organisations that make the copies to turn out a better product

all it's done is stop the lower end criminal classes from making their own and paying the higher end criminal classes for the good forgeries

which they will pay for with money stolen from us, which they will now need more of, so crime levels will go up because of this

plus we have to pay more for the legitemate ones because of this added infallible layer of security that doesn't actually provide any security

gee thanks HMG & UKIPS I don't know what we'd do without you, but it would probably be cheaper and cause less crime