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U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

News that attendees at a U.S. hacking conference have seen a demonstration of how to clone a digital passport has raised fresh concerns about the security of proposed new forms of ID and travel documents in the U.K. A security researcher called Lukas Grunwald showed attendees at the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas how to clone passports, using a German passport for his demonstration. However, standardization across ePassports means the exploit would work on any other passport that uses RFID chip technology to store details of the individual--such as those now being issued in the U.K. or U.S. The...