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Fun with Fingerprint Readers

Posted by michael on from the black-forest-or-haribo dept.

Two pieces of news that came in today make a fun counterpoint to each other. First, a grocery chain is trying out a biometric checkout system. Bring your groceries, pay with a fingerprint. Unfortunately, a story in Bruce Schneier's monthly newsletter notes that fingerprint scanners can be fooled with a bit of gelatin.

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  1. Good by Penguinoflight · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fingerprints are too private. Any method used by the police is to private for a grocery store to have. As it is, only criminals have fingerprints on file, after a few years, they'll be trying to get EVERYONE on file.

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  2. In CA you need an ID to use your credit card by aaandre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In most cases cashiers request an ID whenever you are using your CC. Very few exceptions (gas stations, very small purchases at small stores etc.)

  3. Re:Stick my finger in it by spike+hay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    AFAIK, I don't see how somebody could get conned out of their grocery money with this gelatin thing. Are you going to sit there and let the crook carefully take ur fingerprint!? Of course not.

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