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    Government ePassports uncrackable

    Bwahahahahaha.
    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
    threadeds website, and here's my blog.

    #2
    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    "Government ePassports uncrackable"




    Ooh, that was funny! Oh, I'm off again.







    Oh, my rib's ache!

    "Government ePassports uncrackable"




    Stoppit - you're killing me!




    Damn. P!ssed myself.

    Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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      #3
      Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
      Damn. P!ssed myself.

      Back to the old folks home for you Grandad. Don't think you'll be needing your passport again.
      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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        #4
        Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
        Back to the old folks home for you Grandad. Don't think you'll be needing your passport again.
        Seems to me that abroad is full of foreigners anyway.
        Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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          #5
          Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
          Seems to me that abroad is full of foreigners anyway.
          How can it be?

          I thought London was full of foreigners!!! You can't have two places full, somewhere must be empty...

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            #6
            I don't understand why the chip doesn't just contain a serial number, and when you pass through passport control, that's used to do an RMI lookup to a secure DB.

            It would be nigh on impossible to forge a passport as the border guys would be able to see what the passport should look like?

            :
            And the lord said unto John; "come forth and receive eternal life." But John came fifth and won a toaster.

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              #7
              Originally posted by b0redom View Post
              I don't understand why the chip doesn't just contain a serial number, and when you pass through passport control, that's used to do an RMI lookup to a secure DB.

              It would be nigh on impossible to forge a passport as the border guys would be able to see what the passport should look like?

              :
              Unless you are a giant alien lizard disguised as a human. Or a grey disguised as a grey shark...

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                #8
                Originally posted by b0redom View Post
                I don't understand why the chip doesn't just contain a serial number, and when you pass through passport control, that's used to do an RMI lookup to a secure DB.

                It would be nigh on impossible to forge a passport as the border guys would be able to see what the passport should look like?

                :
                Because the man in the customs office of: middle of nowhere's ville, bongo bongo land is not going to have a connection to that database.

                tim

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                  #9
                  Government ePassports uncrackable

                  Originally posted by threaded View Post
                  Bwahahahahaha.
                  Given that it only contains details that are available in the passport in a printed form, why is this a problem exactly?

                  I can see that it's an issue if someone can write forged details back, but I can see no issue at all with someone being able to crack the reading part.

                  tim

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by tim123 View Post
                    Because the man in the customs office of: middle of nowhere's ville, bongo bongo land is not going to have a connection to that database.

                    tim
                    They do now. Someone sent them a couple of CDs...

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