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How the heck did they get the fingerprint from that? Is there actually tech to enhance blurry images like that?
by eden_hazard 5y ago
How the heck did they get the fingerprint from that? Is there actually tech to enhance blurry images like that?
- endymi0n 5y agoiirc they had a waiter as a conspirator serving that guy at a banquet
- sm4rk0 5y agoThere were (at least) two such "stunts" in the past involving German ministers: In 2008. "fingerprint of then interior minister and current Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble" was sourced from a glass: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995935/posts https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995935/posts In 2014. "A speaker at the yearly conference of the Chaos Computer Club has shown how fingerprints can be faked using only a few photographs. To demonstrate, he copied the thumbprint of the German defense minister" Ursula von der Leyen https://m.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens-fingerprint-copied-by-chaos-computer-club/a-18154832 https://m.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens-f...
- syntheticcorp 5y agoThey used several close range photos, not the one in the article.
- cinntaile 5y agoIt says several images were used. You can't generate a correct fingerprint from that blurry fingerprint picture. The data has to exist in order to reproduce it.