epassports

Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?

Comment for the new ePassports now rolled out in the UK - the passports are meant to last 10 years but the chips inside them storing all manner of data have only been guaranteed for two. I've written and read a lot in the past few years about how the 2008...

Tags: epassports, 2012 olympics, 3g

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[07 Feb 2007]

Leader: Of course passport security is too weak

Leader We mention this because the UK government and other governments around the world are launching ePassports whose security will have to be as robust today as it is 10 years down the line. Botnets, distributed denial of service attacks, mass mailers...

Tags: passport, biometric

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[04 Aug 2006]