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UK's RFID Passport Code is Hacked

Today, some three million RFID-enabled passports have been issued in the United Kingdom, and they don't look so secure. I am sitting with my scary computer man and we have just sucked out all the supposedly secure data and biometric information from three new passports and displayed it all on a laptop computer.

Cracked it!, Guardian (UK), November 17, 2006.