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Old May 21, 2015 | 2:25 am
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mikebg
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Originally Posted by economyman
Personally I am holding off as long as possible with a biometric passport. Don't trust the security of the database at all and will only do it when it's proven secure or becomes mandatory.
It cannot be proven to be secure. On the contrary, it is provable that it can be broken into. It is mathematically axiomatic that no database can ever be 100% secure. It only needs one breakin to compromise the data of the entire population.

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