Blackmoor Vituperative

The e-passport might well become a thing of the present, but it’s still vulnerable to hacking, as proven recently by a German computer security expert.

At a demonstration at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Lukas Grunwald, a security consultant with a German technology firm, successfully copied data from one e-passport to another, resulting in a maneuver that would fool e-passport readers into thinking that one person was passing through security when, in fact, someone else entirely was there.

(from Mobile Magazine, Cloned e-passport heightens RFID security fears)