Great Britain and the United States are both pushing for a universal move to passports which contain microchips that are said to be completely secure and cannot be forged. Today, we get news of a test which proved that was pure hubris.

From TimesOnline:

In the tests, a computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.

What I want to know is whether the tester still had to take his shoes off in the line.