{"id":379084,"date":"2010-03-02T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100223\/1832588279.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-02T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:02:00","slug":"is-elvis-dead-who-knows-but-his-passport-made-it-through-airport-security-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379084","title":{"rendered":"Is Elvis Dead? Who Knows, But His Passport Made It Through Airport Security In Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a big push lately to use “biometrics” at airports — especially in light of the well publicized attack attempt last Christmas. But biometrics — especially chips in passports — can easily be fooled, and can create a false sense of security. JJ sent over the news of two hackers who were able to get past the security check-in with a passport claiming to be Elvis Presley<\/a> — they even included an Elvis photo. Now, there certainly are some limitations with what they did, and even they admit that this sort of hacking wouldn’t work in a lot of cases. However, just the fact that they were able to get past the machine with a faked biometric Elvis chip suggests that the whole focus on biometrics is a bit of a red herring, as the data can be faked.<\/p>\n

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There’s been a big push lately to use “biometrics” at airports — especially in light of the well publicized attack attempt last Christmas. But biometrics — especially chips in passports — can easily be fooled, and can create a false sense of security. JJ sent over the news of two hackers who were able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}