oh certainly, if an american agency wants to fake an american passport, that's not even a problem. It might not even be a *fake* depending on how you define it. But that also leaves a nice big arrow pointing back at america.
I have no first hand knowledge of spy craft. But I would think that if you are going to perform clandestine operations in another country, keeping those arrows from pointing back at you is something you want to avoid.
So you need to fake/hijack someone else's passport. And I doubt that any country would have a back door in their system that could be abused by third parties. If you have control of the backend database it it much easier to insert a few new records than it is to design a system with a backdoor and hope that no one else discovers it. If you are thinking that *someone else* inserted a backdoor into a government system of this import? I highly doubt that. All of these things are home grown. Sure the US (and other countries) will look and see what others have done as a way to improve their own systems. But when it comes to the design and manufacture, I would bet good money that it is produced 100% locally.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
I have no first hand knowledge of spy craft. But I would think that if you are going to perform clandestine operations in another country, keeping those arrows from pointing back at you is something you want to avoid.
So you need to fake/hijack someone else's passport. And I doubt that any country would have a back door in their system that could be abused by third parties. If you have control of the backend database it it much easier to insert a few new records than it is to design a system with a backdoor and hope that no one else discovers it. If you are thinking that *someone else* inserted a backdoor into a government system of this import? I highly doubt that. All of these things are home grown. Sure the US (and other countries) will look and see what others have done as a way to improve their own systems. But when it comes to the design and manufacture, I would bet good money that it is produced 100% locally.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy