Technical expert Adam Laurie has demonstrated copying, cloning and changing details on the biometric visa cards being issued by the government to foreign nationals – the same technology that is to be used for the UK ID scheme.
This is just the latest in a series of ‘hacking’ exercises showing the technical insecurity of the Identity and Passport Service’s products. Officials have repeatedly declared them impossible, despite clear evidence and open demonstrations for the press. The very information most useful to identity thieves and fraudsters is made more vulnerable by using microchips *designed* to broadcast your personal details for official convenience.
NO2ID today condemned the Home Office for knowingly making ‘ID theft’ asier, ignoring dangerous vulnerabilities in the ID card as it pursues its Real goal – the universal population register that would give officials unprecedented control of our lives, and make the Home Office king in
Whitehall.
Phil Booth, National Coordinator of NO2ID said:
‘This shows up the big con. The Home Office doesn’t really care about ‘ID theft’, or it wouldn’t be pushing technology that any competent crook can subvert.
‘The ID-obsessed officials are putting our personal information at risk in their scramble to control it. They want to build a population register – the database for which the card is just a Trojan horse. It doesn’t matter how shoddy the card itself is, or what it costs the public.’
