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Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment Two fallacies about ePassports as touted by politicians: The data encryption method is known and a huge pile of blank, genuine ePassports went missing recently, anyone else believe they aren't being programmed as we speak? [28 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment In the case of ePassports there needs to be at least an online database augmentation of the information contained in the embedded chips, and in addition, some form of PIN, password, phrase and/or picture choice known only to the real identity holder. [21 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News The thousands of UK ePassports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts. A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on route to RAF Northolt, near London. [29 Jul 2008]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News The previous cost report - released in May 2007 - projected costs from April 2007 to April 2017 of the ID cards and ePassports scheme to be more than £5.5bn. A £5.43bn price tag covers the total resource costs of providing both ePassports and ID... [09 Nov 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News But a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns the cost could increase even more with the introduction of the second generation ePassports in 2009.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics [10 Oct 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to biometric checks. Speaking at a Westminster eForum, Stephen Harrison, director of Policy at the Identity and... [13 Jul 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.5bn
News The cost of providing ePassports and ID cards to UK citizens for the period between April 2007 and April 2017 is estimated to be £5.55bn, according to the government's Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report May 2007. [10 May 2007]
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... [07 Feb 2007]
ePassports come in on budget - though with 'chip gap'
News The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has completed the launch of ePassports on time and on budget but question marks still surround several aspects of the project, including how defective chips on the electronic documents will be dealt with. [06 Feb 2007]
ID card mega-database ditched
News For the Public Key Infrastructure information related to the secure use and issue of ID cards, the plan is to build on existing systems used to issue ePassports which currently rely on facial biometrics. [19 Dec 2006]
ID card procurement timetable revealed
News The Home Office, however, was forced to defend the security of the new ePassports and ID cards today after a security expert and Guardian newspaper journalist hacked one of the encrypted chips on the new high-tech passports in just 48 hours. [17 Nov 2006]
RFID-chipped passport deadline passes
News The deadline for countries required by the US to issue passports with RFID tags has passed and all but three of the nations involved are now issuing the so-called ePassports, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (DoHS). [27 Oct 2006]
Biometric passports take off
News More that 2.5 million ePassports have been issued since the new biometric documents went into production in March. He said the changeover to ePassports had taken place over a number of months, while the agency also dealt with record levels of... [05 Oct 2006]
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... [04 Aug 2006]
Biometric passport cracked and cloned
News However, standardisation across ePassports means the exploit would work on any other passport which uses RFID chip technology to store details of the individual - such as those now being issued in the UK or US - and was carried out using freely... [04 Aug 2006]
