At the Black Hat convention of Las Vegas, German hacker, Lukas Grunwald, reproduced the individual electronic code of a new electronic passport needing only the public documentation of ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation), a freely available ePassport reader and software. In just minutes he copied the integrated RFID chip (intended to be read from some distance).
This would allow third parties to steal someone’s identity without the person knowing, or worse, any device could be set to trigger when a specific passport (bearing person) would come within a certain distance of it. - CNN Link

Posted by Wacku    Category: Wacku World News August 8th, 2006