Tag: PASSPORT

The future of biometric scanning may not be at your fingertips, or in front of your eyes. Apparently, it could be in your ears. As the Telegraph reports, researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. have now created a system capable of scanning and analyzing ear structures, which, they claim, are unique enough to accurately identify people. The researchers are hopeful that their new ...

Losing data without a backup is a painful scenario, but some people have seriously difficult backup scenarios. Case in point: Students in Iraq are using the Internet to back up even more documents: their passports. It seems that there is a disturbing trend where insurgents kidnap students and take -- or destroy -- their passports along with other official Iraqi documentation. With the number of ...

Those fancy new US passports with a Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tag embedded in them aren't all that secure, it seems. A German researcher named Lukas Grunwald -- who helped the Germans develop their e-passports -- managed to duplicate the electronic fingerprint associated with the RFID tag and then alter the JPEG image attached. Grunwald was then able to crash two different e-passport readers ...