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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: Faking passport RFID chips for $120 |
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Jeroen
van Beek of the University of Amsterdam was given two valid passports that
contained RFID chips. Using an $80 RFID reader, van Beek was able to obtain a
copy of all the biometric data, substitute arbitrary values for each of the
fields, then write the modified data back out to a separate $40 RFID chip. The
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