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.
Related on World Hum:
* Passports and Privacy: Here Come the RFID Chips
* The New U.S. Passport: ‘It Is Like Being Given A Coloring Book That Your Brother Already Colored In’
* Electronic ‘Tagging’ of Air Travelers Set For Trial in Hungary
