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E-Passports Can Be Hacked and Cloned in Minutes [E-passport]

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2008-08-06 19:00:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...passports being distributed around the world can be hacked and cloned within minutes. A computer researcher proved it by cloning the chips in two British passports and then implanting digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. Both passports passed as genuine by UN approved passport reader software. The entire process took less...
 
Tags: passports, fake passports, e-passport, high-tech e-passports, times online, british passports, code system, real life situationbut, passport reader software
 
 
 
 
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RFID Hackproof passports - HACKED within an hour

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2008-08-07 11:37:50 by HASH0x8b71eac in gadgettastic.com
...Passports designed and created to be hack proof can be hacked in less than an hour using a cloning tool. British researchers embedded pictures of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber onto a set of chips and then tested them. They came up as real according to the agency that sets e-passport standards which is very worrying Using his own...
 
Tags: passports, passport, sets e-passport standards, rfid hackproof passports, paper passports, hour, rfid passports, passport chips, chips
 
 
 
 
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RFID Hackproof passports - HACKED within an hour

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2008-08-07 16:37:50 by {gadgetgeek} in gadgettastic.com
...Passports designed and created to be hack proof can be hacked in less than an hour using a cloning tool. British researchers embedded pictures of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber onto a set of chips and then tested them. They came up as ???real??? according to the agency that sets e-passport standards which is very worrying Using his...
 
Tags: passports, passport, passport chip, sets e-passport standards, rfid hackproof passports, paper passports, hour, rfid passports, passport chips
 
 
 
 
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Biometric Passports Hacked!

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2007-06-25 12:06:43 by admin in
...passports, claiming them to be impenetrable. But, Lukas Grunwald has proved them all wrong Grunwald, a consultant with a German security company, claims that he has developed a methodfor cloning the information stored in the new passports. He said that once cloned, the data can be transfered onto bank chips, which can then be implanted in...
 
Tags: passports, fake passports, hi-tech biometric passports, german security company, grunwald, track everyday objects, lukas grunwald, governments plans, question mark
 
 
 
 
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New US e-passports to speed checkpoint times, freak out privacy types, in April or May

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2008-01-03 12:15:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
...passports readable up to 20 feet away to US citizens who frequently travel to Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean in either April or May of 2008. The new passports should allow traveler info to be read as they're shuffling up to the border agent, who can verify their info and wave them along with little delay. Privacy advocates are obviously...
 
Tags: passports, info, traveler info, border agent, april, privacy, frequently travel, rfid chip, brother
 
 
 
 
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Video Passports

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2008-05-29 01:00:15 by AndrewD in Coolest Gadgets
Passports have become a major piece of identification for obtaining many other important documents. You can even use a passport to help get you a drivers license. The problem is that passports have become increasingly easy to forge with the improving technology In an attempt to halt passport forgery in its tracks, Samsung SDI and Germanys...
 
Tags: passport, video passport, video, passports, halt passport forgery, future, security, devices future, extra security precautions
 
 
 
 
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Micro-chipped passports can be faked, Bin Laden fooled UN

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2008-08-06 13:19:57 by Mark in Product Reviews NetGadgets & Technology
...passports are pretty much pointless. The UN was fooled when they saw a faked document with a picture of Bin Laden, not a good start then The micro-chipped passports were mainly designed to obviously protect identity theft which is a major concern at the moment by criminals and terrorists who can be easily faked New tests have shown that...
 
Tags: passports, identity theft, protect identity theft, chips, biometric passport chips, fake passports, hour, bin, easily faked
 
 
 
 
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More e-passports hacked within minutes, security questions abound

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2008-08-07 06:03:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...passports being hacked within minutes. The University of Amsterdam's Jeroen van Beek was reportedly able to clone and manipulate a pair of British passports in about the time it takes you to sip down your first cup of joe in the morning, and worse still, they were accepted as genuine by the software "recommended for use at international...
 
Tags: british passports, van beek, chip manipulation, minutes, e-passports, international airports, home office, electronic readers, insist
 
 
 
 
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Killing RFID tags

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2008-04-25 20:10:00 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
...passports, because there will be no proof that you intentionally destroyed the chip Why anyone would want to remove the Mark of the Beast from their passports is beyond me, but if youre one of those free-love, free-info hippies, feel free to break the law. Just dont expect us to bail you out of Gitmo via BB
 
Tags: tag, rfid tag, hammer, free, ordinary hammer, free-info hippies, chip, swift hard whacks, passports
 
 
 
 
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SmileCheck Technology Coming to a Digital Camera Near You

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2008-01-15 04:38:43 by Chief Gizmateer in Gizmos for Geeks