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Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Police in Michigan have a new tool for unlocking phones: 3D printing. According to a new report from Flash Forward creator Rose Eveleth, law enforcement officers approached professors at the University of Michigan earlier this year to reproduce a murder victim's fingerprint from a prerecorded scan. Once created, the 3D model would be used to create a false fingerprint, which could be used to unlock the phone. Because the investigation is ongoing, details are limited, and it's unclear whether the technique will be successful. Still, it's similar to techniques researchers have used in the past to re-create working fingerprint molds from scanned images, often in coordination with law enforcement. This may be the first confirmed case of police using the technique to unlock a phone in an active investigation. Apple has recently changed the way iOS manages fingerprint logins. You are now required to input an additional passcode if your phone hasn't been touched for eight hours and the passcode hasn't been entered in the past six days.
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And in other basic facts that you missed, it was described that capacitive touch works by detecting small electrical currents that are present in living humans but not in dead humans. The implication is not, as you surmised, that 3d-printed items are alive. The implication was that they can have arbitrary levels of electrical current applied through some unspecified means.
If you don't care what words mean... you won't understand them. Golly gee, what a surprise!