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RE: "Safest ever" passport is not fit for purpose
From: <Toralv_Dirro () McAfee com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 17:32:56 -0000
They are still this stupid/dump/blind after all this time?I know very little about this specific project, but I suspect that you're listening to the first cuckoo of spring. Or perhaps a bureaucract recycling the assurances of a third party supplier. The essential driver here is that it's political suicide to give any credence to the possibility that a high profile public project is not in every sense perfect. My forecast for the mid-term future is along the lines of either an under-publicized switch in suppliers or a shelving of the project disguised as deferral, but realistically it probably has to be the former. The least likely outcome is a public admission that the customer specification/underlying concept is in any way flawed, but it may be that some of the conceptual holes will get a dab of Polyfilla along with a change of provider.
Looking at previous publications looking into the problems of using RFID chips for passports (Lukas Grunwald et al) in the last months/years it really seems the deliberately chose to remain completely ignorant of the issue.
Last night a Home Office spokesman said: "We do not believe it would
be possible
to successfully forge a new passport by doing this."
While this is fine, but probably remains to be proven, this so completely misses the point of a person's identity being stolen, underlining they are still ignorant of the problem. cheers, Toralv _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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