Dutch Biometric Passport Security Breached
The Register reports that researchers at Riscure have managed to crack biometric data held on Dutch passports from a distance of 10 metres. If this research proves to be correct, identity thieves could therefore skim all details carried on the passports without the carrier’s knowledge.
In another article we see how Andy Burnham is desparately trying to disassociate the national identity cards beast from the term RFID, without actually removing contactless readable chips from the cards and passports themselves.
Are UK identity card/biometric passport proposals any more robust than Dutch passports?
January 31st, 2006 at 10:12
RFID in ID cards cracked
On No2ID this story was posted: The Register reports that researchers at Riscure have managed to crack biometric data held on Dutch passports from a distance of 10 metres. If this research proves to be correct, identity thieves could therefore…
August 4th, 2006 at 13:27
“Are UK identity card/biometric passport proposals any more robust than Dutch passports?”
The answer is “No!”
On this morning’s Up All Night programme on BBC Radio Five (Friday 3 August 2006, 0100-0500), the presenter interviewed an American professor (from Glasgow University, I think) who said that he’d copied the biometric passports that are now being introduced into the UK, thus defeating the whole purpose of introducing biometric passports and ID cards (namely, combatting ID fraud, illegal immigration and so on).
He said it would not be a problem for fraudsters and forgers to similarly copy the data and use it as part of their illegal operations.