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2008-08-07 Britain

'Fakeproof' e-passport is cloned in minutes

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Someone is in denial.

Posted by tipover 2008-08-07 00:28|| 2008-08-07 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The usual - government hands out fat contract to company, company pockets cash and provides substandard solution, everyone loses except the executives.

Posted by gromky 2008-08-07 06:35|| 2008-08-07 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Gromky:

Or, government hands over fat contract, company provides conceptual design, government says it discriminates against people of color and religion and is not as politically correct as the specs call for and issues orders to make it more fool proof (so that a government fool can read it) and accepts the inferior product as representing the best of a public-private partnership.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-08-07 07:36|| 2008-08-07 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Only 3,000 missing, thats not so bad.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-07 09:43|| 2008-08-07 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Or...

A company wins a contract by the government and the planned and very good methods are killed one by one by government bureaucracies because they don't fit into their plan or forces them to change their ways (i.e. loose power in their eyes) and the whole thing is watered down until it is worse than the previous system. This seems to be the case with the contracts my company does for the Department of Homeland defense.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-07 10:04|| 2008-08-07 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 The terrorists caught on the Somalian/Kenyan border had British passports, enabling them to go to most any former British colony, which are many, with ease. We have to worry not just over 3,000 missing passports, but that all e-passports could be forged! The more secure we are made to feel, the less I really do.

Posted by Danielle 2008-08-07 11:07|| 2008-08-07 11:07|| Front Page Top

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