http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/03/your-new-e-passport-can-be-cloned/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/03/your-new-e-passport-can-be-cloned/#comment-10505 U.S. RFID passports now arriving - Homeland Stupidity Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:02:40 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/03/your-new-e-passport-can-be-cloned/#comment-10505 [...] The passports conform to International Civil Aviation Organization standards for e-passports which contain RFID chips, and hackers in Germany and the Netherlands have already created copies of the RFID chips used in those countries’ passports, which use the same standards. Others worry that counterfeiters and terrorists will be able to copy information from one passport to another, or alter the information on an existing passport. The State Department refutes that possibility as well, saying that the digital signature technology employed in the new passports would indicate if information has been added, tampered with, or copied from one chip to another — setting off a red flag for a customs officer at a port of entry. — ABC News [...] [...] The passports conform to International Civil Aviation Organization standards for e-passports which contain RFID chips, and hackers in Germany and the Netherlands have already created copies of the RFID chips used in those countries’ passports, which use the same standards. Others worry that counterfeiters and terrorists will be able to copy information from one passport to another, or alter the information on an existing passport. The State Department refutes that possibility as well, saying that the digital signature technology employed in the new passports would indicate if information has been added, tampered with, or copied from one chip to another — setting off a red flag for a customs officer at a port of entry. — ABC News [...]

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