Re: [Full-disclosure] THC releases video and tool to create fake ePassports

["Ed Carp" <erc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Tonnerre Lombard
<tonnerre.lombard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Salut, Ed,
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:17:55 -0700, Ed Carp wrote:
>> And obvious (and interesting) use would be to generate an ePassport
>> that would flag the bearer as having diplomatic immunity.
>
> As you may or may not have noticed, the bearers of diplomatic immunity
> in most countries do not get epassports "for security reasons".

Yes, but do the folks at the border know this? ;)  A false diplomatic
ePassport might get one out of a foreign country before it is
discovered it is a fake - and I'd rather spend time in an American
jail for a false diplomatic passport than in just about any other
country for anything else!

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