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"  Getty Images Fingerprints may be uniquely yours, but that doesn&amp;#039;t mean they can&amp;#039;t be hacked. According to a presenter at the Chaos Communications Congress, all it takes is a few photographs. The presenter, Starbug, demonstrated an experiment that involved intercepting German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen&amp;#039;s fingerprints using only close-up photographs. Through just a few images of her taken from a press conference, a composite thumb print was built. From there, they ran the print through a commercial software called VeriFinger and pulled up the minister&amp;#039;s records. The ease of this tactic is particularly troubling with the rise of biometrics as a primary form of ID, even in consumer devices such as smartphones. Biometrics may not be as secure as we&amp;#039;ve believed, especially if all it takes to fake them is zooming in on high resolution photographs to intercept fingerprints and retina patterns. Via BoingBoing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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