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| Subject: Funny: Passport RFIDs Cloned Wholesale By $250 eBay Auction Spree Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:55 am | |
| Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.
The $250 proof-of-concept device - which researcher Chris Paget built in his spare time - operates out of his vehicle and contains everything needed to sniff and then clone RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully copied the RFID tags of two passport cards without the knowledge of their owners.
Source: The Register
Imagine if he went to the airport... |
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