Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/25/1315254 Posted by: michael, on 2004-06-25 14:11:00 Topic: security, 237 comments from the mission-possible dept. [1]Anlan writes "A Swedish student wrote her [2]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..." IFRAME: [3]pos6 References 1. mailto:slashdot1@lange.cx 2. http://www.ep.liu.se/exjobb/isy/2004/3557/ 3. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2936&alloc_id=8587&site_id=1&request_id=3363465 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]