[Year 12 IT Apps] Hi-tech fails again!

[Mark Kelly]

"Grunwald says he's succeeded in sabotaging two passport readers made by 
different vendors by cloning a passport chip, then modifying the 
JPEG2000 image file containing the passport photo. Reading the modified 
image crashed the readers, which suggests they could be vulnerable to a 
code-injection exploit that might, for example, reprogram a reader to 
approve expired or forged passports."

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/epassport

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Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
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