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Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us YubaNet is reporting that in recent tests by Stephanie C Schuckers, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkston University, she has shown that, among other things, biometric security measures were fooled 90% of the time by simple attacks like Play-Doh molds. From the article: "Schuckers' biometric research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. She is currently assessing spoofing vulnerability in fingerprint scanners and designing methods to correct for these as part of a $3.1 million interdisciplinary research project funded through the NSF."
Or is it starting to look like ScuttleMonkey is getting kickbacks from **Beatles-Beatles?
Better not install it in a kindergarten then.
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A guy at work was always talking about using gummy bears to commit the perfect crime. You somehow make a mold of someone's fingerprint using that gummy bear material. Then you use it on a fingerprint scanner, which gets fooled by it, and it lets you in. Then, get this- you eat the gummy bear fingerprint mold, and permanently destroy the evidence of your intrusion.
I always thought that was a little disgusting. You mean you're just going to eat that thing right after you pressed it against a disgusting fingerprint scanner?
If you have no children and buy PLay-doh you might be added to the terrorist watching list as a security risk.
Play-Doh is a clay-like compound used by children to form various things.
Well then, all we have to do is to keep children away from the fingerprint scanners, and then everything will be okay!
I for one have a problem logging on via the scanner after a longer bath
I don't think that is a concern for most of the people who read this site.
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He stands near the scanner. And if he sees that anybody puts something else than his finger on the scanner, he shoots ;-)
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Or simply needles that shoot out and a microphone listening for screams.
It would be cheaper to implement.
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That's why we all have 10 fingers.
... that Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame) can fool any fingerprint detector?
I went to a friend's house the other day. He told me he was looking through a box of important papers and he found the recipe for play-doh. It seemed a bit weird at first but now it just seems suspicious.
Schuckers' biometric research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
They misspelled "suckers". After all, it can be fooled by play-doh.
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Speak for yourself. I only have 9 fingers, and of them, only 5 have useful fingerprints. Which is why I always have great amusement at immigration whenever I visit the US these days. "Please place your left index finger on the glass. Oh. Er, your left thumb then. Oh, you haven't got a left thumb. Well, your second finger then. Now your right index finger. Oh. Your right thumb - er no, make that your second finger - er okay, so perhaps your thumb after all". And because the pointless (*) DHS fingerprint system at immigration doesn't actually do anything useful, I go through the same rigamarole each time I enter.
(*) nearly as pointess as the questions on the green visa waiver form, eg "have you been involved in genocide between 1933 and 1945 in nazi germany?".
In other news, Mr. Bill was arrested Saturday for suspicion of ID Theft and Conspiracy when it was found he was unlawfully trying to enter a secure location with a fingerprint scanner.
The police said his only words after getting caught were "DOH!" and then "Ohhh noooooooo!"
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From my experience (and that of a friend of mine who was in pharm sales) the easiest way to get on *any* military base is to put a Dominos Pizza sign on the top of your car.
Seriously, I was picking up a cousin at Travis AFB, and they put me through ten minutes of questions, even though I had all the passes, paperwork, etc. While they had me standing outside my car, they waived a pizza guys through without even stopping him.
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