Doctors Bypass Biometric Scanners With Fake Fingers 139
jfruh writes "At a Brazilian hospital, doctors were required to check in with a fingerprint scanner to show that they've showed up for work. Naturally, they developed a system to bypass this requirement, creating fake fingers so that they could cover for one another when they took unauthorized time off. Another good example of how supposedly foolproof security tech can in fact be fooled pretty easily."
Re:Biometrics are not secrets. (Score:5, Funny)
I told him that I wasn't sure that I could be his friend anymore...
Basically... (Score:2, Funny)
...they gave the government the finger...
Re:Biometric system is insecure by design (Score:4, Funny)
It can be canceled at the biometric level...
You are just squeamish about the organ replacement process.
I bet you found it inconvenient to change your passwords every 90 days as well.
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