E-Passport Cloned In Five Minutes

Last month a panel of EU experts warned that the e-Passport's security is "poorly conceived", and in fact a week later a British newspaper demonstrated a crack. Now another researcher has shown how to clone a European e-Passport in under 5 minutes. A UK Home Office spokesman dismissed it all, saying "It is hard to see why anyone would want to access the information on the chip."

and if your name is written on said panties

[EmbeddedJanitor]

it is also identity theft.

Re:and if your name is written on said panties

[prichardson]

If my name is written on someone else's panties, I demand to know why!

ob Simpsons:
Skinner: Oh, it's a miracle no one was hurt.
Otto: I stand on my record - fifteen crashes and not a single fatality!
Lou: Let's see your license, pal.
Otto: No can do. Never got one. But, if you need proof of my identity, I wrote my name on my underwear... Oh wait, these aren't mine!
Skinner: Well that tears it! Until you get a license and wear your own underwear, mister, you are suspended without pay!

Re:completely ignores the point

[humungusfungus]

Plus, I bet they don't even know what STAT means.

Of course they do, many of them are so old, latin was probably their mother-tongue.

Re:RFID is not for security

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I see you buy your dictionaries from the same place as Alanis Morissette.

Re:Was the Home Office spokesman an idiot?

[Dunbal]

they will now classify panty theifs as sex offenders

      Thank God stealing a bra is still ok...I was worried for a second there.

The Solution is Obvious

[serutan]

Throw the researchers in jail for showing the weakness in the system. Problem solved!

Re:Was the Home Office spokesman an idiot?

[Lord Bitman]

Those are the longest leaps of logic I've seen since "I don't know where the universe came from" -> "God must have done it". Impressive.

Re:Was the Home Office spokesman an idiot?

[StikyPad]

In related news, the number of women on the sex offender list has skyrocketed due in part to a crackdown on shoplifting at Victoria's Secret.

Re:RFID is absolutely TERRIBLE for security

[Your Pal Dave]

I'm sorry, but you'd have to be a pretty pathetic mugger if you can't spot a foreign tourist without using a bunch of fancy electronic equipment. Why back in my day...

Re:Well then,

[olman]

UYFB and RTFA.

I see you must be new here.