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ePassports

Will they really be secure?

Published in issue 355, June 2006

ePassports
If your passport runs out in the next few months the chances are you could be issued with one of the new electronic passports that are being introduced throughout the EU this year. ePassports have an embedded RFID tag containing your personal information which Immigration officials can read remotely; hopefully nobody else will be eavesdropping on this electronic conversation…

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