The wireless data transfer capabilities of radio frequency identification tags are intended to speed and assist transactions, but it appears the RFID chips of new U.S. passports are speeding and assisting circumvention, according to a German expert’s demonstration at last week’s Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas. DN Systems consultant Lukas Grunwald showed conference attendees how he could not only crack the RFID-based biometric U.S. passport, but also had the ability to clone the RFID chip inside.
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Hacker Cracks, Clones RFID Passport
Posted by: Jay Lyman August 7, 2006 03:10 PMThe wireless data transfer capabilities of radio frequency identification tags are intended to speed and assist transactions, but it appears the RFID chips of new U.S. passports are speeding and assisting circumvention, according to a German expert’s demonstration at last week’s Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas. DN Systems consultant Lukas Grunwald showed conference attendees how he could not only crack the RFID-based biometric U.S. passport, but also had the ability to clone the RFID chip inside.