[LINK] Industry Reply on e-Passport Cloning

[Adam Todd]

Did I not mention this a week ago :)  (Probably end up in the Supreme Court 
on those comments too!)

Creating a mechanism that clones data and is able to re transmit or cause 
to be transmitted is easy.

In fact, if you sat near a scanner with a sensitive enough receiver, you 
could easily record the data stream - say up to 4 meters away would be 
sufficient.

After recording a dozen data streams at an airport check point, you could 
easily create clone data, and transmit them in place of the real passports 
that are being scanned using a more powerful transmitter.

This is rudimentary communications, lets not get into encryption and 
handshakes and such, because there has to be something common each way to 
make it all work and as it's wireless it's open to intercept.

At 04:56 PM 11/08/2006, Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
>Industry reply on e-passport cloning.
>http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/2559/1/1/
>
>Some choice comments:
>"However, Grunwald merely cloned the data on the IC inside his passport. 
>He did not counterfeit the passport, nor did he manipulate the data."
>
>"Cloning a passport's inlay, according to the Smart Card Alliance, would 
>be no different than stealing someone else's passport and trying to 
>present that as your own at a border entry point."
>
>"What this person has done is neither unexpected nor really all that 
>remarkable,"
>
>--
>Reg
>
>Geoffrey Ramadan B.E.(Elec)
>Chairman, Automatic Data Capture Association (www.adca.com.au)
>and
>Managing Director, Unique Micro Design (www.umd.com.au)
>
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