German hackers clone RFID e-passports

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Nick @ Aug 3rd 2006 5:02PM

I don't think that many people really know the reasoning for having the rfid passports. Currently anyone can create a fake passport with a fake name and fake picture. With the new passports everything has to match up with the information that the goverments have on file. The name, picture and all other information will be cross checked with government computer servers when the rfid tags are scanned, in order to get away with a fake passport, somoene has to hack into the governments computer systems and change the information there so that when the passport is scanned, the recods match up properly. If you just make a fake one with random infomration and it gets scanned there will be no record of the passport and you will probably be help for questioning (something that people with fake passports are typically trying to avoid).

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