http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/141805/pc=PC_9079

Got email from the Director of the Australian Passport Office. He's still of the opinion that the wireless passports can't be cracked, despite methods for exactly this having been demonstrated at a number of public lectures.

I've written back using smaller words.

Have decided that poking a government department is unlikely to accomplish much, especially not in the short term ( Read more... )

I've been emailing the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, who are in charge of passport regulations, asking some extremely pointed questions of the sort governments don't like being asked ( Read more... )