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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]
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]
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]
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]
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