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How secure is the new RFID passport?

Tags: Tech
According to this
guardian article, the encryption of the data on the RFID equipped passports is rather trivial.

According to the article successfull attempts at reading the data remotely were made up to 30 cm away.

Could somebody please tell me how this is making the world safer from terrorists?