I’ve been particularly loving the use of the word ‘useless’ that’s been thrown about a bit by various agencies and spokesmen about the theft of those passports. Why? Because the government have been touting just how brilliant their systems are, and how seriously we should take them. In fact, we should take them so seriously that we should trust them with even more than they have already…

Plus, el Reg mentioned whole years ago that the passports could be copied without having to touch the damn things…

So, so far the stolen passports being useless, they’re pretty much priceless. A blank template that you could copy trusted government documents onto en masse? What criminal mastermind wouldn’t like that, eh?