e-passport

There is an international symbol on the cover that alerts screeners that it's an e-passport.

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The "switch to the e-passport with the chip and the additional security features are what is increasing the costs," said

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The Government response was as usual in direct opposition to the evidence: The Home Office said last night that it had yet to see evidence of someone being able to manipulate data in an e-passport.

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Not surprisingly, the government refers to this new version as an e-passport.

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"The e-passport segment made big strides as interoperability efforts intensified," said Michelle Foong of Frost, "impelled by a heightened sense of urgency for more secure and sophisticated travel documents."

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-- That e-passport isn't as secure as you want it to be.

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But Grunwald, who has consulted German parliament on the topic, says security flaws enable fraudsters to clone the fingerprint image stored on the biometric e-passport, and to concoct a specially coded chip that attacks e-passport readers that attempt to scan it.

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Last year, Lukas Grunwald demonstrated how he cloned a computer chip in an e-passport.

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'Fakeproof' e-passport is cloned in minutes 2008

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