Sunday, 17. December 2006
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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