Topic: SECURITY - on December 17, 2006 at 2:38:00 PM CET
ePassport cloned in five minutes
So when Lukas Grunwald and Christian Bottger realised they could clone the new ePassport they were pretty sure it would be identical to the original, and undetectable. So how did they do it?
The chip inside the ePassport is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip of the type poised to replace the barcode in supermarkets.
The good thing about RFID chips is that they emit radio signals that can be read at a short distance by an electronic reader.
But this is also the bad thing about them because, as Lukas demonstrated to me, he can easily download the data from his passport using an RFID reader he got for 200 Euros on eBay.
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Topic: born rich - on December 17, 2006 at 2:35:00 PM CET
Super rich have problems deciding which private island to buy while sipping 1000 year old wine
'The gap between the rich and the super-rich is getting ever larger,' said William Cash, editor of the new quarterly journal Spear's Wealth Management, itself so exclusive that one has to be invited to subscribe - and only those with liquid assets exceeding £5m need bother inquiring. 'The super-rich inhabit a world the rest of society can hardly dream of. It's a parallel universe.'
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 17, 2006 at 2:30:00 PM CET
High-Res Satellite picture of Los Angeles against the mountains (courtesy of NASA)
courtesy of NASA
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 17, 2006 at 2:25:00 PM CET
Great photos from Boeing factory
A look at a 747 being built in Boeing's Everett, Wash., factory, the biggest building in the world by volume. Boeing's factory in Everett, Wash., is the birthplace of a number of the company's commercial planes.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 17, 2006 at 1:52:00 PM CET
Person of the Year: You
If you look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
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Topic: health - on December 17, 2006 at 1:48:00 PM CET
Diabetes breakthrough
In a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body's nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential near-cure of the disease that affects millions of Canadians.
Diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas.
"I couldn't believe it," said Dr. Michael Salter, a pain expert at the Hospital for Sick Children and one of the scientists. "Mice with diabetes suddenly didn't have diabetes any more."
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