Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday December 11, 2005 @08:35PM from the homer-says-doh dept.

* * 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."

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Fuck You by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-11 22:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Slashdot!. Fuck all your fuckin editors too. You ignore every legitimate fuckin story others post, and link up some link peddler. Fuck you for that. And fuck you for treating your readers like dirt. Fuck You!

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