This Can't Be Good News: RFID Passport Cracked Open

This article is a little oddly written... and it is yet another Dutch story... but see what you make of it:

A Dutch television news program has commissioned experiments by security research firm Riscure in which radio communications between the RFID chip in a prototype Dutch passport (using the same technology and encryption scheme recently adopted as an international standard and being deployed in USA passports) were intercepted, stored for analysis later at leisure, the password cracked in about 2 hours on a PC, and the digitized fingerprint, photograph, and all other encrypted and plain text data on the RFID chip in the password recovered.