That was over pretty damn quick

Once money is poured into an endeavour especially when it comes to security of any sort, it always falls sort of expectations.

Thinking of course of all the DRMs - the DVD encryption with DeCSS is perhaps the most famous, Audible's DRM, iPod's encrypted songs, all sorts of other stuff.

So it comes as no surprise when I read that the new British passport with state-of-the-art biometrics security has been cracked.

This is of an entirely different scale - it actually affects people who don't watch DVDs or listen to iTunes music.

I'd give a penny for a Briton's thoughts right now, as she stands in line to collect her passport after reading this article.