How forgeable is a UK passport? (18Feb10)

[TheTimetraveller83]

Rfid reader

[truexposure]

Do you live in the United Kingdom!! "the spiritual sovereignty of god or Christ" or "a state or government having a king or queen as its head" or in Great Britain?

My Passport says "United Kingdom of Great Britain" so im in Great britain as i do not understand or believe the others. The UK part should be taken off as its propoganda

[liarpoliticians]

@truexposure The UK passport should be returned to the lovely BLACK colour and proper stiff backing, not the cheap and tacky EUSSR design in Communist red colour.

[ThaTrillMagician]

One of the most difficult places to infiltrate: airports and Area 51 -- real talk!

[WolYou]

Its absolutely no problem to forge a passport. This thinking is from the 18th century when officials were sure that due to illiteracy and lack of paper and foto material a passport was some kind of "safety". Biometric data can be invalidated by simply putting the passport into a microwave for a few seconds.

[MikeyS01]

All the Intelligence agencies are the ones who are perpetrating most of the terrorism around the world, this is just the tip of the iceberg IMO!

Nothing will happen and this "investigation" that Gor-Bro was talking about will never get to the botom of anything!

[dikkydoo1]

and the new rfid passports can be cloned without ever stealing a passport, you can read it with a reader with an antenna from up to 3 metres away.

[Unclesamslair]

@dikkydoo1 the passports don't use rfid, they use contactless chips that require the scanning device to be right next to the passport. and to even scan it you need to send the chip an encrypted verification code before it will even talk to you. It operates via a two way handshake that establishes an encrypted stream of data with other countermeasures to defend against a man-in-the-middle attacks so that even if you clone the data it's useless.

[liarpoliticians]

Comments should stick to the issue of faked passports and not the case that the issue has arisen from. Thanks.