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Security systems will 'never be safe' | | 2008/08/07 | | Too many people instinctively, and naively, trust internet security according to a report in the Times.
Claims that computers will never be totally secure and that hackers will always be quick to corrupt new technology were supported by recent incidents which prompted electronic security firms to try a few experiments.
In an exercise to disprove claims by the Identity and Passport Service, which were backed by a government minister, that new style passports were "unusable on the black market", a computer researcher not only cloned the chips in two passports, he also implanted a digital image of Osama Bin Laden.
The claim was made in the wake of the theft of a van in Oldham last week which was carrying 3,000 new passports.
As if to labour the point, two years ago a German security expert was able to alter a "secure" passport chip which crashed the scanning device that checked it.
More recently, details are now emerging of the biggest identity and credit card theft operation ever perpetrated using a method known as 'wardriving'.
Most of these occurrences were made easier by retailers' failure to provide enough, if any, protection or website monitoring to their wireless networks during transactions. |
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