> > > They are still this stupid/dump/blind after all this time? > > I know very little about this specific project, but I suspect > that you're listening to the first cuckoo of spring. Or > perhaps a bureaucract recycling the assurances of a third > party supplier. The essential driver here is that it's > political suicide to give any credence to the possibility > that a high profile public project is not in every sense > perfect. My forecast for the mid-term future is along the > lines of either an under-publicized switch in suppliers or a > shelving of the project disguised as deferral, but > realistically it probably has to be the former. The least > likely outcome is a public admission that the customer > specification/underlying concept is in any way flawed, but it > may be that some of the conceptual holes will get a dab of > Polyfilla along with a change of provider.
Looking at previous publications looking into the problems of using RFID chips for passports (Lukas Grunwald et al) in the last months/years it really seems the deliberately chose to remain completely ignorant of the issue. > Last night a Home Office spokesman said: "We do not believe it would be possible > to successfully forge a new passport by doing this." While this is fine, but probably remains to be proven, this so completely misses the point of a person's identity being stolen, underlining they are still ignorant of the problem. cheers, Toralv _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
