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Title: e-Passports get hacked in new security threat - Chris Zappone, CNNMoney.com Post by: Stephen Taylor on August 17, 2007, 09:39:38 AM e-Passports get hacked in new security threat - Chris Zappone, CNNMoney.com
As the nation grapples with difficulties getting new passports, a technology researcher has found another problem with the radio frequency ID technology the new documents carry. Computer security expert Lukas Grunwald cloned and manipulated the content of an RFID passport, then used the hacked e-Passport to crash the machine needed to read it. Grunwald says that although the passport wasn't American the threat certainly extends to American passports, which use similar technology. Read More.. (http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/03/news/rfid/index.htm?postversion=2007080314) |