what if the technology would only move the threat from a space to another?
Brillantly applauded, the biometric passport was supposed to be THE measure that could protect us from these evil terrorists, the secret was all simple, we had to use a french technology, the electronic chips that we now find on most cards (banks and some now some credit cards as well,) and combine it with our current passport, the result being the biometric passport. What is that exactly? Well, a passport enhanced with a chip in which most data about you are recorded, including a retina and a finger prints. HOw could those evil terrorists could bypass such thing? The evidence suggested that it was impossible, the reality showed us something a lot more scary. Doted with 105 pounds of material you can buy anywhere if you know how to search and his imagination, Lukas Grunwald, a consultant with a German security company did find the solution and hacked in 2 weeks what was supposed to be the safest and the most day to date security device. (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33515) If a consultant can to it so easily, within 2 weeks, ans with 105 pounds (around 220 can dollars or 200 U.S bucks) you can be sure that he's not the only one, to my eyes, this system in the long run might help to control illegal working and immigration, but it surely will help some very able and determined groups. Why do I say that it will help them? Simply because people believe what the technology tells them, especially when it's a very sophisticated security device.
For example, one of my friend who got caught a couple of years ago and had to make some time in jail for having hacked the Pentagon, the FBI and the RCMP a couple of years ago, who now started his own security company explained me how it was easy to change the name or the number on the ID displayer on a telephone, and he told me how these peoples would really believe that it was the banks calling them as it couldn't be otherwise, "it was written on the ID caller"... DO you imagine then with biometric passports, something supposed to be even safer? I think that the fact is that these technologies will, like I said before, block a fair number of peoples from committing some crimes but that it will be in the end a way to foster the possibilities of some others. And unfortunately, the minority it will help represent a way bigger danger than all the others combined.
For example, one of my friend who got caught a couple of years ago and had to make some time in jail for having hacked the Pentagon, the FBI and the RCMP a couple of years ago, who now started his own security company explained me how it was easy to change the name or the number on the ID displayer on a telephone, and he told me how these peoples would really believe that it was the banks calling them as it couldn't be otherwise, "it was written on the ID caller"... DO you imagine then with biometric passports, something supposed to be even safer? I think that the fact is that these technologies will, like I said before, block a fair number of peoples from committing some crimes but that it will be in the end a way to foster the possibilities of some others. And unfortunately, the minority it will help represent a way bigger danger than all the others combined.
