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Cloning ePassports - Its in the manual

The Register is running a two-page article on the cloning of the new biometric passports that are becoming widely implemented. Lukas Grunwald, from Germany’s DN-Systems consultants, demonstrated, at Black Hat, the ease to which a biometric passport can be fraudulently cloned. What may be even more surprising, is that the, widely available, ICAO documentation actually outlines the technical processes in quite a lot of detail.

To read more, please follow this link to The Register

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