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Fun with Fingerprint Readers
- imeikas 16y agoMythbusters also tried some different methods for beating the system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo
- Deestan 16y agoThe most interesting bit of that show was how they beat that serious-looking fingerprint sensor with a licked piece of paper: Photocopy a fingerprint, lick the copy, push it onto the reader.
- cstuder 16y agoIt's from May 15, 2002. I wonder how the situation is today. Any new findings?
- sp332 16y agoYeah, now you can just pick the fingerprint locks with a paperclip in about 10 seconds. http://www.privacydigest.com/2010/08/03/biometric%20and%20other%20locks%20fail%20foil%20hackers%20defcon http://www.privacydigest.com/2010/08/03/biometric%20and%20ot... That's progress for you.
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- danielh 16y agoIn a more recent article from 2007, the problem still exists. http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2007/umsonst-im-supermarkt http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2007/umsonst-im-supermarkt
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- Fedons 16y ago"After it lets you in, eat the evidence." This is genius.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoBiometrics of this sort have been known for years as a soft security system - similar to a text password.
- danielh 16y agoA fingerprint is actually worse than a password. You can't change your fingerprints and you leave them everywhere. You don't go around sticking post-its with your unchangeable password everywhere.
- relix 16y agoPlus you can't actually encrypt anything with your fingerprint, you can only compare it with an earlier training version.
- ultrasaurus 16y agoMatsumoto's paper is not on the Web. You can get a copy by asking. :(
- geoka9 16y agohttp://cryptome.org/gummy.htm http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm
- JangoSteve 16y agoI was thinking the first gelatin finger he made was just a smooth finger-shaped mold and inferred that it worked by simply pressing the pattern left by the oil residue of the last person to place their finger on the pad. I thought that was pretty cool, but then wondered why they considered the second more arduous process of printing and etching a fingerprint with the same success rate more interesting. I was thinking, well that can be solved simply with software. Like don't let the same person enter a door twice in a certain time-window. Then I realized the first method meant you actually had to mold a finger that already has access, fingerprint and all. Oh, ok now the second more arduous method is more impressive.