Hot on the heels of yesterday's post about defeating CD copy protection with a nikko pen; comes this gem from slashdot: Fun with Fingerprint Readers. You may recall a while back that I posted news of a grocery chain installing fingerprint readers; together with the usual hype about them being totally secure. Well, a mathematician (not a security expert) has found two different ways to defeat fingerprint readers reliably about 80% of the time. He uses freely-available materials, in particular gelatin.
Back to the drawing board for security firms. Fingerprint security has been blown out of the water. Of course, I'm sure this one will be kept quiet...
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