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"Chip-based passports can be forced to reveal all their content after just a couple of hours of number crunching, despite standards governing their introduction specifying strong counter measures, according to the findings of a Dutch smart card security firm, Riscure. According to the company, which has studied the proposed Dutch biometric passport as its test case, the problem of potential eavesdropping attacks will still exist when the Netherlands� passport is rolled out in August this year, unless measures are taken to prevent this relatively simple, yet cunning attack. "