[/.] Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards

Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards

An anonymous reader writes “Researchers at the University of Washington have found that RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the U.S. are vulnerable to snooping and copying. The information in these tags could be copied on to another, off-the-shelf tag, which might be used to impersonate the legitimate holder of the card.” You can also read the summary of the researchers’ report.Read more of this story at Slashdot.