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The Latest Security Gap in RFIT |
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At a recent conferance, Lukas Grunwald, a German security expert, showed how the electronic passports being integrated into the U.S. and other country's border procedures are not impervious to theft and the like.
The passports have a vulnerability that could allow criminals to clone embedded secret code and enter countries illegally. This "discovery", if you will, contradicts assurances made by government officials that the electronic information stored in passports could not be duplicated.
Countries such as Germany already use the technology in passports to help border officials guard against forgeries and to automate the processing of international visitors.
"If there is an automatic inspection system, I can use this card to enter any country," Grunwald said.
The research is the latest to raise concerns about the growing use of radio-frequency identification technology.
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