That's somehow funny. I was involved in a project for standardizing automated border control in Europe. We developed a document simulator [1] that could mimic m

That's somehow funny. I was involved in a project for standardizing automated border control in Europe. We developed a document simulator [1] that could mimic most security features of physical passports, but faking the electronic part always seemed infeasible because of the electronic signatures involved. We knew that the distribution of certificates from all countries involved was still an open issue, meaning most readers had an option to simply ignore the signature at all. But knowing that even the CBP does not bother to check the signatures, would have given all our arguments about the security risks involved an instant credibility boost. In the most simplest form the thing we implemented was an android app that you could upload any passport to (several images in different spectral ranges) and the smartphone when placed on the scanner would show the scanner whatever it expected (this obviously only work on self-service terminals). [1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6975597/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6975597/