Re: THC releases video and tool to create fakeePassports

["M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado () gmail com>]

US government began with those brilliant ideas in 2005:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Infineon-Announces-Deal-for-US-Passport-RFID-Chips/

Last year, THC proved they were in the wrong way:
http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-epassport/

Bruce Schneier proved that CAs would not exactly "help":
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/how_to_clone_an.html

Incredibly, last week, after performing a series of security tests on
the passport application process and discovering some failures, the US
GAO still state they don't know much about the fraudulent methods:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09583r.pdf





On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Pruett, Mike <mpruett () istavision com> wrote:
> I about peed my pants laughing at the mere thoughts of this... We could
> all be like the bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2!! xD
>
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> fakeePassports
>
> And obvious (and interesting) use would be to generate an ePassport that
> would flag the bearer as having diplomatic immunity.
>
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