After seven years testing border control biometrics, Australian Customs Service says every Australian international airport will be equipped with SmartGate by June 2009.
The researcher who claims to have created code that can emulate and clone e-passports has given details of the purported hack.
The Australian Customs Service today said its inbound e-passport authentication system SmartGate would not be fooled by fake details, after a Dutch hacker claimed to have broken through similar systems in Europe.
A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.
Thousands of UK e-passports stolen this week are likely to sell for up to 20m on the black market, privacy experts have said.
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Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?
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