acroyear: (fof earplug)
Joe's Ancient Jottings ([personal profile] acroyear) wrote2008-08-07 12:12 pm

shocked, i am. shocked!

Slashdot | Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes:
"New microchip passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft failed the test when a researcher was able to manipulate one in minutes. The cloned passports were accepted as genuine [CC] [MD] [GC] by the computer software recommended for use at international airports. According to the article: 'A computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.'
I think the icon describes my impression of what these people think "security" is...

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