http://digbig.com/4qfex
"Security experts in the United Kingdom and Germany claim to have extracted data from the smart card chips on electronic passports and an organization of European researchers recently claimed that the new electronic passports Europeans are being required to carry “dramatically decrease their security and privacy.” Is there a serious flaw in the chip technology that more than 50 nations are putting into their passports? The short answer from the smart card industry and government officials is: No, the technology does what it is intended to do."
