Biometric passport hacked - ok, first only the Dutch one, but:
The new German ePass, which has been issued since November of last year, is also equipped with RFID technology. It is encrypted with 56 bits, which experts also consider to be too little.
56-bit encryption is definitely not enough today - and if some components of the key are then also determined algorithmically from the data of the passport, the disaster is perfect. The result is exactly the opposite of the desired result: the whole technology becomes less secure in the end, because a chain is only as secure as its weakest link.
So far, the weakest link is the human being - a human being has to judge whether a passport belongs to a user. With higher automation and electronic queries, this will shift - the human being will shift responsibility to the machine. People are like that - they trust the computer more than their own eyes. But if the biometric passport is weak, the overall result will be weaker than manual control and human control.