full-disclosure - Re: THC releases video and tool to create fake ePassports

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:38:20 -0700
From: "Ed Carp" <erc@...ox.com>
To: "Tonnerre Lombard" <tonnerre.lombard@...roup.ch>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: THC releases video and tool to create fake
	ePassports

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