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Subject: Security - Missing Documents - Part 2 of 2 Parts
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Part 2 of 2 Parts:
"cont'd:
Details of the documents
Ontario's Chalk River reactor supplies at least one-third of the
world's medical isotopes, which are used in diagnostic tests for some
forms of cancer. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. shut down the reactor
last month because of a heavy water leak.
In documents headlined 'Background for discussion with chair of Atomic
Energy Canada,' the government lists funding for the Crown corporation
at $351 million for 2009-2010. That figure was in the January budget.
However, it also lists $72 million to 'maintain the option of isotope
prooduction.' The public 2009 budget does not specifically mention
funding for isotopes.
The documents also include a hand-written note that lists total
funding for Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. since 2006 at $1.7 billion,
and then a talking-point memo to characterize the spending as
'cleaning up a Liberal mess.'
The Conservative government plans to privatize AECL's nuclear reactor
division in order to boost sales of its CANDU reactor, as Ontario
weighs whether to buy two new power plants.
Publicly, Ottawa has downplayed Ontario's interest in the sale of
AECL's Candu division. But included in the binder is background
information for a May 25 meeting with Glenna Carr, who chairs the
board of directors for AECL: 'The government continues to support
AECL's bid in Ontario, but the announcement will probably raise
questions about this support. We will have to manage this very
carefully.'
Other documents highlight cost increases for AECL that have not been
made public. In one document headlined 'Discussion with CEO Hugh
MacDiarmid, CEO of Atomic Energy of Canada,' it lists $100 million in
supplementary funding to keep it solvent.
That figure includes cost increases to refurbishing Ontario's Bruce
Power reactors and cost-overruns at Candu reactors around the world,
according to the documents.
And in papers headlined 'Minister Raitt's Discussion with Ontario
Minister of Energy George Smitherman,' it appears that AECL is far
behind schedule on refurbishing two of the Bruce reactors: 'Bruce 1
reactor 324 days late,' and 'Bruce 2 reactor 433 days late'"
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Reg Curtis
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The new Dutch passport, the first to employ biometrics and RF support,
now hacked from remote - presumably with some form of RFID reader.
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Face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack
Chip skimmed, then security breached
By John Lettice
Published Monday 30th January 2006 12:38 GMT
Dutch TV programme Nieuwslicht (Newslight) is claiming that the security
of the Dutch biometric passport has already been cracked. As the
programme reports here,
(
http://omroep.vara.nl/tvradiointernet_detail.jsp?maintopicB4&subtopic8690)
the passport was read remotely and then the security cracked using flaws
built into the system, whereupon all of the biometric data could be read.
The crack is attributed to Delft smartcard security specialist Riscure,
which here explains (
http://www.riscure.com/news/passport.html) that an
attack can be executed from around 10 metres and the security broken,
revealing date of birth, facial image and fingerprint, in around two
hours. Riscure notes that that the speed of the crack is aided by the
Dutch passport numbering scheme being sequential.
The process is explained in greater detail by Bart Jacobs, Research
Director of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences,
University of Nijmegen, in presentations to be found here.
(
http://wwwes.cs.utwente.nl/safe-nl/meetings/24-6-2005.html) These make
it clear that a skimming exercise could potentially yield all biometric
data from a passport (or indeed a biometric ID card), giving ID thieves
and would-be forgers a considerable leg up in the construction of fakes.
According to the Dutch Interior Ministry ways to improve the security of
the passport are being looked at. But note that they say "improve", not
"fix". (Thanks to Robin for the tip)
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