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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. Retina Scanners by qurob · · Score: 2, Troll

    Once this guy makes eyeballs out of jell-o, and fools a retina scanner, I'll shake his hand!