German Hacktivists Collect Fingerprint of Fingerprint Collector
Dan Goodin writes on The Register:
A hacker club has published what it says is the fingerprint of a Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's interior minister and a staunch supporter of the collection of citizen's unique physical characteristics as a means of preventing terrorism.More here.
In the most recent issue of Die Datenschleuder, the Chaos Computer Club printed the image on a plastic foil that leaves fingerprints when it is pressed against biometric readers.
No-one from the Germany-based group has been able to test the foil to see if it can fool a computer into believing it came from Schauble. But the technique has been shown to work with a variety of other people's prints on almost two-dozen readers, according to a colleague of the hacker who pulled off the demonstration.
posted by Fergie @ 3/29/2008 09:19:00 PM
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