Archive for August 6th, 2009

New ID cards are supposed to be ‘unforgeable’ – but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data

Posted at Thursday, August 6th, 2009 by andrew

Steve Boggan writes in the Daily Mail about Adam Laurie’s demonstration that the RFID chips the Home Office plans to use in ID cards can be cloned: But as I watch, Laurie picks up a mobile phone and, using just the handset and a laptop computer, electronically copies the ID card microchip and all its [...]

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