Micro-chipped passports can be faked, Bin Laden fooled UN

A researcher has warned that biometric passport chips can be copied within an hour, if this is true then it seems micro-chipped passports are pretty much pointless. The UN was fooled when they saw a faked document with a picture of Bin Laden, not a good start then.

The micro-chipped passports were mainly designed to obviously protect identity theft which is a major concern at the moment by criminals and terrorists who can be easily faked.

New tests have shown that personal information could be copied/cloned and of course manipulated within an hour before being inserted into brand new chips.

Personally this is not good news; they need to come up with a new way of protecting identity theft without having any flaws in the system what so ever. The tests showed that bogus biometrics could be inserted in blank or fake passports.

What are your views on this matter?

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