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New passports have serious security flaw

Posted in International Travel  by Traveler on October 3rd, 2008

In my old blog, I had describe some of the security risks associated with the new RFID tags that are being embeded into the new passports that the US and other countries are issuing.
In that post I wrote how easy would be for someone to steal your identity without even touching your passport simply by reading the RFID chip with a special scanner at a reasonable distance.
Now a group of hackers had gone a step further and demonstrated a technique to change the data stored in the RFID chip thus giving them the ability to crease fake passports with whatever information they choose.
They posted their finding and even the methodology they used to hack the passports on their website for the world to see.
Any person willing to spend $80.00 in cheap electronic equiptment can pretty much read your personal information from your passport and then move it to their own fake passport. Picture included.

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  1. Traveler » Blog Archive » Security breach in passport application leads to identity theft Says:

    [...] couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about how easy it would be for a hacker to steal the information embedded in the computer chip [...]

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