ePassports Cloning

[Butterfly]

When implementing more security technologies make you less secure.

Maybe they should have consulted with real security experts instead of using Ministries in their ivory towers. Governments can't make you safe so why are we letting them get away with all those "risky" toys ?

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | ePassports 'at risk' from cloning

A spokesman said: "It is hard to see why anyone would want to access the information on the chip.
[Someone forget to send him the memo about Identity theft and hacking]

"Other than the photograph, which could be obtained easily by other means, they would gain no information that they did not already have - so the whole exercise would be pointless: the only information stored on the ePassport chip is the basic information you can see on the personal details page."

The spokesman said the chip was one part of the security features of the ePassport.


He said: "Being able to copy this does not mean that the passport can be forged or imitated for illegal or unauthorised use.
[Now that's funny]

"British ePassports are designed in such a way as to make chip substitution virtually impossible and the security features of the passport render the forgery of the complete document impractical."

According to Lukas Grunwald of the consulting company DN-Systems an ePassport holder is more at risk from someone trying to steal their data.


"Nearly every country issuing this passport has a few security experts who are yelling at the top of their lungs and trying to shout out: 'This is not secure. This is not a good idea to use this technology'".