A number of governments are implanting radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into passports as a way of making them more secure. But a pair of researchers at last week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas showed the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology Blog that they could hack into the chips and change the data. One said it took about four hours to break the encryption key and get the data contained in a passport chip.
Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com
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