"Hackers crack new biometric passports"

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“The whole passport design is totally brain damaged,” Mr Grunwald told Wired.com. “From my point of view all of these [biometric] passports are a huge waste of money – they’re not increasing security at all.”

No surprises there, then. Except maybe how quickly it’s happened. Single point of failure, anyone?

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