Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport 164
Barence writes "Hackers have released source code that allows the 'backup' of RFID-protected passports, although the tool can potentially be used to create fake or cloned documents. The Hacker's Choice, a non-commercial group of computer security experts, has released a video showing a cloned passport being approved by a security scanner at a Dutch airport. When the reader scans the passport, it is revealed to belong to one Elvis Aaron Presley, complete with picture. Reports of the hackers serenading security staff with 'Are You Clonesome Tonight' are unconfirmed."
WHOOSH! (Score:0, Informative)
Your head <----------------
Why don't you actually try clicking the link?
Misconfigured scanner (Score:2, Informative)
This "hack" just worked because scanner they used to validate the passport permitted self signed certificates.
Of course, it is good to show that scanners must be properly configured to be any good.
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Hahahahahaha (Score:4, Informative)
Of course we already knew, when U.S. passport encryption was broken in all of 2 hours, that this was inevitable.
And the government did it all in the name of more "security".
But as we know, it is actually less freedom, and LESS security. This is just more proof.
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Re:I can fix that for you... (Score:2, Informative)
Elvis will be so pissed when he returns in 2012.
"Score:5, Interesting"
Try again, modboys. Sometimes I wonder what you guys are thinking when you moderate posts like this. Don't you see that it should have been modded informative instead of interesting. Amateurs.
Re:I can fix that for you... (Score:4, Informative)
How the hell did this get modded "interesting"?? Is there some widely accepted theory about Elvis returning in 2012 I've missed?
Who the hell gets mod points nowadays?
Probably related to the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar, which was really accurate for 5,125 years, but it all of a sudden ends on the Winter Solstice in 2012 [wikipedia.org], nobody knows what's going to happen.
I like to think of it as Peter Venkman said, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" Elvis caused mass hysteria, ergo Elvis comes back.
Obvious Fake (Score:4, Informative)
For conspiracy theorists: Elvis' middle name was Aron, not Aaron, right?
Wikipedia says "Presley's genuine birth certificate reads "Elvis Aaron Presley" (as written by a doctor). There is also a souvenir birth certificate that reads "Elvis Aron Presley." When Presley did sign his middle name, he used Aron. It reads 'Aron' on his marriage certificate and on his army duffel bag. Aron was apparently the spelling the Presleys used to make it similar to the middle name of Elvis' stillborn twin, Jesse Garon. Elvis later sought to change the name's spelling to the traditional and biblical Aaron. In the process he learned that "official state records had always listed it as Aaron. Therefore, he always was, officially, Elvis Aaron Presley." Knowing Presley's plans for his middle name, Aaron is the spelling his father chose for Elvis' tombstone, and it is the spelling his estate has designated as the official spelling whenever the middle name is used today. His death certificate says "Elvis Aron Presley." This quirk has helped inflame the "Elvis is not dead" conspiracy theories."
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