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The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bioawesome dept.

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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  1. hmm.. by bigattichouse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Lets see.. I remember a very detailed Expose on these so called "borrowed ladders". Gee. You write a movie about it, and it takes almost 10 years for it to become a top news story on slashdot. I also remember an eye-scan in a movie using a plucked eye. Spaceballs used an unconscious guard's hand. As well as the "removed hand". Even scooby doo, Daphne used powder makeup to bring out the pattern of a thumbprint on a scanner to unlock something or other.

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  2. The Gattaca Solution by Billosaur · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Blood. A mix of your DNA plus biomarkers. Of course if you've seen the movie, perhaps that too can be spoofed.

    In the end, there's no truly safe solution, except for multiple layers of passwords, biometrics, DNA samples, and the like, and even then, a determined foe will find a way to breach it. What Mankind can create, Mankind can subvert.

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  3. Change my passwor... er fingerprints? by fish_in_the_c · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The biggest problem with biometrics is after it is compromised it cannot be changed.

    sure you have 10 figures and 2 eyes, but when it comes too it you will never get ADDED security with a biometric only system.
    biometric + password + keycard is the securest solution.

    something you are, something you know, something you have

    As the phrase goes in the banking security industry.
    Those have always been the only 3 options for establishing 'trust' with an unknown entity.

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