Security Expert: New Passports Vulnerable to Cloning, Sabotage
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.01.07 | 11:17 AM ET
Lukas Grunwald, “an e-passport consultant to the German parliament” according to a story in Wired, says the new U.S. passports have security flaws that could “allow someone to seize and clone the fingerprint image stored on the biometric e-passport, and to create a specially coded chip that attacks e-passport readers that attempt to scan it.” Grunwald is scheduled to elaborate on his findings at the DefCon conference in Las Vegas later this week. He’s one of many who have sounded alarms about the RFID chips in the new passports.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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