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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..."
and always will be. If they could fool the proper scanners than that would be a surprise. Why would you do your master on this? It's like saying that cheap cars are less reliable than luxary ones. Thank you Captiain Obvious.
...welcome our new Waffle House overlords!
...welcome our new non-security overlords!
...welcome our new fingerprinted overlords!
...welcome our new useless security-weilding overlords!
...welcome our new civil liberty-forsaking overlords!
...welcome our new knee-jerk overlords!
ACHTUNG! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen.