British "Secure" Passports Cracked 305
hard-to-get-a-nickna writes "The Guardian has cracked the so-trumpeted secure British passports after 48 hours of work:
'Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?'"
Re:Great articel (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But no, this is great news (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No surprise there then (Score:5, Funny)
They should have called in the experts, Microsoft!
"Sorry sir you can't travel this evening as you haven't run your RFID chip through Passport.NET Live Update recently. We recommend you do this every second Tuesday of the 6 months proceeding travel or you may lose your right to enter your home upon return."
"Sir, do you have the 25 digit customs key for your new passport? It should have been printed on the back of the envelope it came in."
Passenger: "Excuse me, I'm having some problems with Genuine Passport Activation. I paid £66 [ukpa.gov.uk] for this a month ago but when I tried to board the International Express 737 this morning I was told that wasn't genuine."
Re:But no, this is great news (Score:3, Funny)
If you skip the tests and move straight on to the firing squad you'll at least get rid of all the unlucky people - and let's face it, it's them who knock things over and break them, crash their cars etc...
Re:But no, this is great news (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I donno. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Suitable shielding? (Score:2, Funny)
If this were designed by Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)