03 Aug 2006
Hackers Clone E-Passports

Too often people see technology as a panacea - an easy fix for all problems. It's not. It's just as trivial to copy an RFID tag as it is to forge a paper document, and it may be even easier.

There's nothing inherently wrong with using technology to help solve social ills, but expecting it to solve them by itself is a dangerous fantasy.

The United States swears RFID tags can secure travelers' documents against forgery. But German experts clone the chips at will, while another group shows how terrorists might build a passport-triggered roadside bomb. Kim Zetter reports from the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

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