Monday, January 30, 2006

Face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack / The Register, 30 Jan 2006

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/dutch_biometric_passport_crack/John Lettice
"Dutch TV programme Nieuwslicht (Newslight) is claiming that the security of the Dutch biometric passport has already been cracked. As the programme reports here, the passport was read remotely and then the security cracked using flaws built into the system, whereupon all of the biometric data could be read."