Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Electronic passport cloned - big deal! / Security Document World, 8 Aug 2006

http://digbig.com/4mgna
"Almost with unbelievable speed, headlines have circulated the globe pronouncing that electronic passport chips can be “cloned”, making them a monumental waste of time, effort and money. [..] Grunwald argues, in an article published by Wired, that “a terrorist whose name is on a watch list could carry a passport with his real name and photo printed on the pages, but with an RFID chip that contains different information cloned from someone else’s passport.” This view, however, has little credibility in the real world. "