RFID Passport Security "Poorly Conceived" 33
tonk writes, "European expert researchers on identity and identity management summarize their findings from an analysis of passports with RFID and biometrics — Machine Readable Travel Documents or MRTDs — and recommend corrective measures that 'need to be adopted by stakeholders in governments and industry to ameliorate outstanding issues... By failing to implement an appropriate security architecture, European governments have effectively forced citizens to adopt new international MTRDs which dramatically decrease their security and privacy and increases risk of identity theft. Simply put, the current implementation of the European passport utilizes technologies and standards that are poorly conceived for its purpose.' The European experts therefore come to similar conclusions as the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the US Department of Homeland Security in a draft report, which seems to be delayed."
Unique number (Score:3, Insightful)
You'd think... (Score:1, Insightful)
Honestly, even with good security, the system is only going to be as good as the people who check these passports when they are used. If they just have someone scan them in and assume the right person has the passport, then it's still not secure.
Re: Why make them unnecessarily data rich? (Score:2, Insightful)
The problem with e-passports (Score:3, Insightful)