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Aug 13, 2007
DHS unveils new plan for passenger screening. DHS announced Thursday a plan to upgrade computerized airline passenger screening and says it has resolved congressional and public concerns about personal privacy. The Air Transport Association said the program must be "carefully crafted" to ensure privacy and minimize any impact on operations. ATA also said it was essential that the government weigh carrier feedback during the public comment period. Aug 10, 2007
How Safe Are E-Passports? The US Department of State began issuing electronic passports (e-passports) a year ago this month. E-passports are virtually the same as traditional passports, except for one very special feature: a small integrated circuit or "chip" embedded in the back cover. This chip is meant to securely store the biographical information and digital image that are visually displayed on the passport, but a German security researcher has now twice demonstrated that it may not be very secure at all. According to a recent article in tech magazine Wired, Lukas Grunwald, an e-passport consultant to the German parliament, last year found ways to pull information from the passports chips. This information could be transferred to a forged read-write chip that would appear valid to security officials when read. Now Grunwald has found flaws that will allow someone to replicate valuable information from these chips, such as fingerprints, as well as ways to disrupt passport readers made by two different manufacturers. He says these two manufacturers readers are... |
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