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Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool
Anlan writes "A Swedish student wrote her Master's thesis about current fingerprint technology. After a thorough literature study some live testing took place. Simple DIY fingerprint copies were used (detailed how-to in the thesis). Have current commercial products improved as much as proponents claim? Well, this qoute from the abstract says it all: 'The experiments focus on making artificial fingerprints in gelatin from a latent fingerprint. Nine different systems were tested at the CeBIT trade fair in Germany and all were deceived. Three other different systems were put up against more extensive tests with three different subjects. All systems were circumvented with all subjects' artificial fingerprints, but with varying results.' You can guess how happy the sales people at CeBIT were - most systems claim to be spoof proof..."
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Please remember this the next time a non-productive "feature" is uncovered.
Don't let your fingerprints get copied. Wear gloves ALL the time. Problem solved.
Hmmm.
That's great to know that some of the world's most sophisticated security systems can be circumvented with Jell-O
It doesn't really matter, odds are they're not even plugged in.
"I'll show you a finger, Trebek!"
- SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
Airport! No, don't bring that up! George Bush will have to invade Sweden now!
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
For the Swedish bikkinni team anway, should use other "appendages" to authenticate the message.
A light spray of hydrochloric acid could be used to clean the hands before a scan is performed.
>>So, will they remove these fingerprint
>>scanners, in the US Internaitonal Airport ?
No, they'll just continue to refuse letting travellers use gelatin molds in place of their real hands.
From the thesus...
The main problem with liveness detection methods based on extra hardware, is that the scanners have to be adjusted to operate e±ciently in different kinds of environments, leading to problems when using a wafer-thin artifcial fingerprint glued on to a live finger.
And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin fingerprint. Oh sir...it's only wafer thin.
Now, a clever man would not use a plane, because he would know that only a great fool would repeat the same method. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose to attack with a plane. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly have to attack with a plane.
Because counter-terrorist come from America, as everyone knows. And the America's is entirely peopled with infidels. And infedels are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not attack with a plane.
and you must have suspected I would have known you where an infidel, so I can clearly have to attack with a plane.
You've beaten my Sadam, which means you're exceptionally strong. So, you could have placed your men on the plane, trusting on your strength to save you. So I can clearly not choose to attack with a plane. But, you've also bested my sleeper cells. And in studying, you must have learned that terrorist are dangerious so you would stay as far away from us as possible, so I can clearly attack with a plane.
Man, do you realize how small a quantum leap is? It is the closest thing to nothing in the universe...
Yes, they will be replaced by rectal scanners because it is impossible to make a perfect gelatin mold out of your ass.
Son of a beeyatch. Yesterday I waste mod points because I find nothing worth modding... Then Today - there is this, just dying for Mod points...
Mod parent up, +1 Princess Bride
Why would you want to photocopy the fingerprint of the severed finger when you can just place the severed finger on the fingerprint scanner?
The main problem with liveness detection methods based on extra hardware, is that the scanners have to be adjusted to operate efficiently in different kinds of environments...
"So why does it have a rectal probe?"
"That's just part of the design."
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
Hey - maybe the shoe bomber was England's best and brightest!
wake up and hold your nose
I didn't really understand anything you said, but I see you managed to mention testicles in a /. post, and that was cool...
[cue Butthead laugh]
.sigs are for post^Hers.
national guard monkeys
Gee! A little respect! These are hard working patriots, protecting the american public from multiple threats and dangers of all sorts!
Ts ts ts ts ts!
They enlist themselves and their kids to fight wars on terrors(TM) and defend democracy and freedom and the Values of Western Civilization(TM), at least we could show some respect to that Saintly Sacrifice!
Do you think it's easy to torture Iraqi people in order to liberate them?
Yam, yam, uga booga, yam, yam, yade, yade, uga booga, yam, yam, yade, yade
>Sweden makes some mighty fine women.
Alcohol is so expensive in Sweden, nobady can afford to drink ugly women nice. So the selection starts....