‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes - Times Online

According to the Times Online ‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes... so those 3000 passports that were stolen in transit last week are not useless as we were assured by the Home Office. We learn that

Using his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 RFID chips, Mr van Beek took less than an hour to clone and manipulate two passport chips to a level at which they were ready to be planted inside fake or stolen paper passports.

So it is not even a major effort investment. Wouldn't it be nice if just once the Government would actually tell us the truth about something instead of burying their collective heads in the sand and assuring us that all was well under control.

Of course "Id Cards" will be alright. Tosh and piffle. The ex-CIA agent who was famous for his fraudulent escapades (and the subject of a film with Leonardo Di Caprio) has already poured water on that one and said that they will be cloned within weeks of availability.