[Clips] Engineer Outwits Fingerprint Recognition Devices with

[Travis H.]

Play-Doh

A recent magazine article suggested a spoofing technique involving
wrapping one's finger with a few layers of cellophane; the latent
print on the reader apparently is visible enough to be reused in this
manner, at least with some currently-available scanners.
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