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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
"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.
>>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.