So... these new RFID Passports that are so secure...

[Largest of Als]

... not so much it turns out.

Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.

The $250 proof-of-concept device - which researcher Chris Paget built in his spare time - operates out of his vehicle and contains everything needed to sniff and then clone RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully copied the RFID tags of two passport cards without the knowledge of their owners.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02...t_rfid_cloner/





Al

[Campestral]

why do they have them? is it like if someone is wanted by the cops then if they carried one of those passports it would alert them on their radios?