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Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-zombie-shopping dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A small U.S. university has come up with a novel solution to reduce the possibility of using a dead person's hand to get past a fingerprint scanner through the use of hemoglobin detection. The device quickly checks the fingerprint and hemoglobin 'non-intrusively' to verify the identity and whether the individual is alive. This field of research is called Biocryptology and seeks to ensure that biometric security devices can't be easily bypassed."

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  1. yeah, right by cellocgw · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Show me a biometric test that can't be spoofed for 10% the cost of the test hardware. Go ahead, I dare ya.
    Fake retinas and fake fingerprints took, what, a couple weeks to show up after their respective scanners went into production? Why should any other sort of bio-scanner/detector be any different?

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