OT: Hackers crack new biometric passports

[Kush]

The problem with an information in electronic form is that its very easy 
to duplicate and replicate by atleast 4 orders of magnitude once the 
security codes are  cracked.

Kush

Meng Cheah wrote:
> *Hackers crack new biometric passports*
>
> *Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
> Monday August 7, 2006
> The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk>*
>
> Hi-tech biometric passports used by Britain and other countries have 
> been hacked by a computer expert, throwing into doubt fundamental 
> parts of the UK's £415m scheme to load passports with information such 
> as fingerprints, facial scans and iris patterns.
>
> Speaking at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas, Lukas 
> Grunwald, a consultant with a German security company, said he had 
> discovered a method for cloning the information stored in the new 
> passports. Data can be transferred onto blank chips, which could then 
> be implanted in fake passports, a flaw which he said undermined the 
> project.
>
> The revelation also casts another shadow over the government's plan 
> for a national ID card, which would contain much of the same information.
>
> /More at http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1838751,00.html
>
> There is also a link to a 200 page report on ID cards (in pdf)
> /
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