[LINK] Code highlights e-passport eavesdropping risk

[Irene Graham]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:35:45 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
> If the passport can be read from say 10 or 20 metres away and the data
> stored ....

Physics. Apart from that so you've got a key to unlock a particular 
passport chip. How are you going to communicate with the particular 
passport chip, which emits a random UID, from 10 or 20 metres away?

Irene