Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist 251
pnorth writes "A hacker has shown how easy it is to clone US passport cards that use RFID by conducting a drive-by test on the streets of San Francisco. Chris Paget, director of research and development at Seattle-based IOActive, used a $250 Motorola RFID reader and an antenna mounted in a car's side window and drove for 20 minutes around San Francisco, with a colleague videoing the demonstration. During the demonstration he picked up the details of two US passport cards. Using the data gleaned it would be relatively simple to make cloned passport cards he said. Paget is best known for having to abandon presenting a paper at the Black Hat security conference in Washington in 2007 after an RFID company threatened him with legal action." Apparently this is a little unfair — he sniffed the data, he didn't actually make a fake passport.
Re:I feel deja vu.. from monday (Score:3, Funny)
That's how good these hackers are. Not only did they dupe a passport RFID, but they duped the news of their hack too!! Soon they will duplicate themselves and all kinds of deja vu is going to happen.
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Re:There is a very good reason he didn't clone it. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I feel deja vu.. from monday (Score:5, Funny)
H. G. Wells called. He wants his story back.
Re:Why is this unfair? (Score:3, Funny)
Check the rest of the web for more info.
I've been checking the rest of the web, and so far I've come up with almost nothing but porn. I don't see what that has to do with RIFD's...
Re:Security threat (Score:2, Funny)
Except...
How do you know the person with the RFID passport is an American or a fellow terrorist who replicated a RFID passport?
Re:-1, Wrong (Score:3, Funny)
Is there any reason this card needs RFID as opposed to a standard credit-card style chip which requires physical contact?
You can't expect government workers to have the motivation to slide a card into a reader. Next to the reader is the best you're gonna get. It's in their contract or something.
Re:I feel deja vu.. from monday (Score:2, Funny)
Thats how good these hackers are. Not only did they dupe a passport RFID, but they duped the news of their hack too!! Soon they will duplicate themselves and all kinds of deja vu is going to happen.