Ultra-Secure Passports?

A rather alarming article in today’s Guardian. The UK government has started issuing what it calls "ultra-secure" passports containing biometric information on an RFID chip. The government is confident that the information is sufficiently protected. Unfortunately, it has taken a journalist and a computer security expert just minutes to break it. Well, what a surprise. The naivety of governments when it comes to computer systems and technology knows no bounds.