Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool 378
Anlan writes "A Swedish student wrote her Master's thesis about current fingerprint technology. After a thorough literature study some live testing took place. Simple DIY fingerprint copies were used (detailed how-to in the thesis). Have current commercial products improved as much as proponents claim? Well, this qoute from the abstract says it all: 'The experiments focus on making artificial fingerprints in gelatin from a latent fingerprint. Nine different systems were tested at the CeBIT trade fair in Germany and all were deceived. Three other different systems were put up against more extensive tests with three different subjects. All systems were circumvented with all subjects' artificial fingerprints, but with varying results.' You can guess how happy the sales people at CeBIT were - most systems claim to be spoof proof..."
As a self-appointed representative of ... (Score:5, Funny)
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Please remember this the next time a non-productive "feature" is uncovered.
Easy Solution (Score:5, Funny)
J311-0 (Score:5, Funny)
That's great to know that some of the world's most sophisticated security systems can be circumvented with Jell-O
Re:Airport Police (Score:4, Funny)
In the great words of Sean Connery (Score:5, Funny)
- SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
Re:Airport Police (Score:4, Funny)
A more foolproof method (Score:2, Funny)
Easy fix (Score:1, Funny)
Re:J311-0 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Airport Police (Score:5, Funny)
>>scanners, in the US Internaitonal Airport ?
No, they'll just continue to refuse letting travellers use gelatin molds in place of their real hands.
It's wafer thin... (Score:5, Funny)
The main problem with liveness detection methods based on extra hardware, is that the scanners have to be adjusted to operate e±ciently in different kinds of environments, leading to problems when using a wafer-thin artifcial fingerprint glued on to a live finger.
And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin fingerprint. Oh sir...it's only wafer thin.
Re:Something you have and Something you know (Score:5, Funny)
Because counter-terrorist come from America, as everyone knows. And the America's is entirely peopled with infidels. And infedels are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not attack with a plane.
and you must have suspected I would have known you where an infidel, so I can clearly have to attack with a plane.
You've beaten my Sadam, which means you're exceptionally strong. So, you could have placed your men on the plane, trusting on your strength to save you. So I can clearly not choose to attack with a plane. But, you've also bested my sleeper cells. And in studying, you must have learned that terrorist are dangerious so you would stay as far away from us as possible, so I can clearly attack with a plane.
Re:Why am I not surprised... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Airport Police (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Something you have and Something you know (Score:3, Funny)
Mod parent up, +1 Princess Bride
Re:Slashdot How-to.. (Score:3, Funny)
Liveness detection (Score:4, Funny)
"So why does it have a rectal probe?"
"That's just part of the design."
Re:They'll stay to raise the threshold... (Score:3, Funny)
Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
[cue Butthead laugh]
Re:Airport Police (Score:3, Funny)
Gee! A little respect! These are hard working patriots, protecting the american public from multiple threats and dangers of all sorts!
Ts ts ts ts ts!
They enlist themselves and their kids to fight wars on terrors(TM) and defend democracy and freedom and the Values of Western Civilization(TM), at least we could show some respect to that Saintly Sacrifice!
Do you think it's easy to torture Iraqi people in order to liberate them?
Re:They'll stay to raise the threshold... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Airport Police (Score:2, Funny)
Alcohol is so expensive in Sweden, nobady can afford to drink ugly women nice. So the selection starts....