Date: November 17, 2006
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Title: "Cracked it!"
Author: Steve Boggan
Summary: Boggan gets two computer "experts" to read British e-Passports in their possession and theorises that it would be possible to clone the chip data.
Our response: there is nothing remarkable about reading the e-Passport data once it is in your possession. Cloning the chip is only useful for an impostor (an old problem); in any case the paper document with its security features has to be forged as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1950226,00.html