The Times: Cloned e-passports fiasco renews calls for £4 .7bn ID card scheme to be axed

James Firth ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:22:37 +0100


The Times: Cloned e-passports fiasco renews calls for £4.7bn ID card scheme
to be axed

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4474143.ece

"After The Times disclosed that new passports could be cloned and
manipulated in minutes and would then be accepted as genuine, MPs also gave
warning of serious implications for the security of the Government's £4.7
billion identity card scheme."