Hacker Club Publishes German Official's Fingerprint

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 29, 2008 @07:50AM from the sauce-for-the-goose dept.

A number of readers let us know about the Chaos Computer Club's latest caper: they published the fingerprint of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble (link is to a Google translation of the German original). The club has been active in opposition to Germany's increasing push to use biometrics in, for example, e-passports. Someone friendly to the club's aims captured Schäuble's fingerprint from a glass he drank from at a panel discussion. The club published 4,000 copies of their magazine Die Datenschleuder including a plastic foil reproducing the minister's fingerprint — ready to glue to someone else's finger to provide a false biometric reading. The CCC has a page on their site detailing how to make such a fake fingerprint. The article says a ministry spokesman alluded to possible legal action against the club.

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3rd World Countries by nx6310 · 2008-03-29 08:55 · Score: 0, Troll

thats why its so cool living in iraq, where my turban government is so clueless when it comes to technology, they probably believe Biometrics are the work of the devil, and the americans use a non-centralized database biometrics based authentication process, in other words, they both can't work em right.