RFID Hackproof passports - HACKED within an hour

August 7, 2008 at 5:37 pm

The new RFID Passports designed and created to be hack proof can be hacked in less than an hour using a cloning tool. British researchers embedded pictures of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber onto a set of chips and then tested them. They came up as “real” according to the agency that sets e-passport standards which is very worrying.