The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing?

AxisPower9 writes "What we often watch in films and television - circumventing biometric security access - is turning from science-fiction to reality. Bori Toth, biometric research and advisory lead at Deloitte & Touche, warned that biometric spoofing is a growing concern. From the article: 'We are leaving our prints everywhere so the chance of someone lifting them and copying them is real. Currently it's only researchers that are doing spoofing and copying. It's not a mainstream activity--but it will be. Many people are trying to regard biometrics as secret but they aren't. Our faces and irises are visible and our voices are being recorded. Fingerprints and DNA are left everywhere we go and it's been proved that these are real threats.'"

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Three ways to authenticate yourself

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There are three ways to authenticate yourself:

• something you are (fingerprints, irises, etc.)
• something you know (passphrase, mother's maiden name, etc.)
• something you have (key, RSA token, access card, etc.)

As many have already pointed out, the best security uses a combination of two of the above. This is so because each one of the above has an inherent weakness.