Just another of the groups to which this Mayor panders...
Hackers crack new biometric passports
Hi-tech biometric passports used by Britain and other countries have been hacked by a computer expert, throwing into doubt fundamental parts of the UK's £415m scheme to load passports with information such as fingerprints, facial scans and iris patterns.
Speaking at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas, Lukas Grunwald, a consultant with a German security company, said he had discovered a method for cloning the information stored in the new passports. Data can be transferred onto blank chips, which could then be implanted in fake passports, a flaw which he said undermined the project.
Researcher warns of problems with electronic passports
Snip: If there is an automatic inspection system, I can use this card to enter any country," Grunwald said, holding up a computer chip that contained electronic information he had copied from his German passport.
Palestinian released, IFCO arrestees will stay
Snip: Hamdan is Palestinian; he was born in a refugee camp in the West Bank when it was under Jordanian control. He was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 28, 2004; earlier he had worked as a fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity shut down by US officials in December 2001 for allegedly raising money for Hamas, a Palestinian organization the US has designated as terrorist. Hamdan was not charged with any crimes but was ordered deported for overstaying a student visa and was held by ICE without bond as an alleged national security threat.
Hearing in Houston to feature testimony on immigrant crimes
Snip: Among the other witnesses slated for the hearing are Steve McCraw, Texas director of homeland security, who will describe the state's initiatives to curb illegal immigration. A federal official with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Houston will talk about organized crime in Mexico and how it is making its way into Texas.