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US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years

posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 23 2018, @09:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-shocked-I-tell-you dept.

Passports, like any physical ID, can be altered and forged. That's partly why for the last 11 years the United States has put RFID chips in the back panel of its passports, creating so-called e-Passports. The chip stores your passport information—like name, date of birth, passport number, your photo, and even a biometric identifier—for quick, machine-readable border checks. And while e-Passports also store a cryptographic signature to prevent tampering or forgeries, it turns out that despite having over a decade to do so, US Customs and Border Patrol hasn't deployed the software needed to actually verify it.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-hasnt-validated-e-passport-data-for-years/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Dr Spin on Friday February 23 2018, @06:55PM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Friday February 23 2018, @06:55PM (#642552)

    All because one group of assholes used hijacked passenger planes to justify a metric fuckton of heinous stupidity.
    FTFY

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