ePassports at Immigration

The government plans to use ePassports at Immigration and Border Control. The information is 
electronically read from the Passport and displayed to a Border Control Officer or used by an
 automated setup. THC (The Hacker's Choice) has discovered weaknesses in the system to 
(by)pass the security checks. The detection of fake passport chips does not work. Test setups do 
not raise alerts when a modified chip is used. This enables an attacker to create a Passport with 
an altered Picture, Name, DoB, Nationality and other credentials.

The manipulated information is displayed without any alarms going off.
The exploitation of this loophole is trivial and can be verified using thc-epassport.

Regardless how good the intention of the government might have been, the facts are that tested 
implementations of the ePassports Inspection System are not secure.

ePassports give us a false sense of security: We are made to believe that they make usemore secure. I'm afraid that's not true: current
ePassport implementations don't add security at all.