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I don't understand why the chip doesn't just contain a serial number, and when you pass through passport control, that's used to do an RMI lookup to a secure DB.
It would be nigh on impossible to forge a passport as the border guys would be able to see what the passport should look like?
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I don't understand why the chip doesn't just contain a serial number, and when you pass through passport control, that's used to do an RMI lookup to a secure DB.
It would be nigh on impossible to forge a passport as the border guys would be able to see what the passport should look like?
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Unless you are a giant alien lizard disguised as a human. Or a grey disguised as a grey shark...
I don't understand why the chip doesn't just contain a serial number, and when you pass through passport control, that's used to do an RMI lookup to a secure DB.
It would be nigh on impossible to forge a passport as the border guys would be able to see what the passport should look like?
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Because the man in the customs office of: middle of nowhere's ville, bongo bongo land is not going to have a connection to that database.
Given that it only contains details that are available in the passport in a printed form, why is this a problem exactly?
I can see that it's an issue if someone can write forged details back, but I can see no issue at all with someone being able to crack the reading part.
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