November 17, 2006 - 3:49 P.M.
Passport to ugly possibilities
- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Security
Friday's Guardian had a rather sobering first-person piece from Steve Boggan, who's been spending some quality time this year demonstrating the low quality of the security thinking put into Britain's new "high-tech" passports. The writeup's lengthy, but he gives a great overview of the thinking he and his merry band of experts put into hacking the system and why, whatever the Home Office says, the new systems are in fact potentially far less secure than the old piece-of-paper-examined-by-human-eyes versions. Those among us who carp about "giving the terrorists" ideas -- you crazy security-by-obscurity kids, you know you crack me up -- will most assuredly not be amused.
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