It seems that RFID passports have not come up to the standards. Few months back, the researchers hacked American RFID passports. Now, Britain is also facing same kind of problem with its RFID-enabled passports.
As known earlier, the UK government has issued nearly three million passports carrying RFID tags to check the terrorist activities and fraudsters. However, the Guardian newspaper exposed flaws in the RFID passports.
The newspaper claims that the Britons RFID passports are very easy to read and copy despite strong crypto algorithm to protect biometric data in the passport. The Guardian reporter using a device could read view and copy the information from several of the new passports.
Phil Booth of NO2ID who helped the Guardian in the investigation says,
This is simply not supposed to happen. This could provide a bonanza for counterfeiters because drawing the information from the chip, complete with the digital signature it contains, could result in a passport being passed off as the real article. You could make a perfect clone of the passport.
