USA to use E-Passport

[Jason]

A German semiconductor company with offices in San Jose said Monday that it has received an order from the U.S. government for millions of identification chips that will be embedded in passports to help prevent fraud at border crossings.

Infineon Technologies provided few details about the order. A spokeswoman for the Government Printing Office, which prints and binds passports in Colorado, confirmed the deal.

Is it just me or does the idea of making passports digital seem like a bad one to anyone else. No matter how hackproof a system seems its only a matter of time before its broken. Then it becomes a relatively simple matter for Saddam Hussein to enter the US as Mr. Paul Smith.

Bad Idea?