White Hat Hacker Cracks UK ID Card In 12 Minutes

The reputation of the Home Office was left in tatters as a national newspaper enlisted the help of a security researcher to make a clone of a genuine card and change the information on it. The Dailymail seeked the expertise of Adam Laurie. He made an exact carbon copy of a sample card - obtained from a foreign student - using nothing more than a mobile phone with chip reading capabilities and a laptop, the grand total of the hardware being around £500. More...