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Thread ID: 19481	2002-05-16 08:24:00	80% of fringerprint scanners fooled!!!	Guest (0)	Press F1

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49145	2002-05-16 08:24:00	This just came in on a yahoo basic stamps newsgroup I subscribe to. Interesting << I hope this isn't too much off topic, but we were talking last week about fingerprint scanners, and I just read a really interesting article about a Japanese researcher who figured out how to fool them by making fake fingers of gelatin and latent finger prints. It's cool, cheap and ingenious, something stampers might appreciate. Here's the link > www.counterpane.com >> Cheers Liam	Guest (0)
49146	2002-05-16 09:54:00	Remember they did a similar thing on 'Gone in 60 seconds' JM	Guest (0)
49147	2002-05-16 11:38:00	Which brings me to the question, how foolproof are rental scanners. I mean the government gets iris prints of people every day, via their driver licensing agents (hence you can?t wear glasses when they take your photo (it degrades the iris print)). So could someone not take a good quality digital photo (with a camera similar to LTSA uses for driver licensing), then adjust the sizing etc and print it out, then place it behind some sort of lens to make it look real to the renal scanner? And if so, then does that mean that rental scanners are only as secure as the government database, for example Joe Blogs could find a bank (or wherever) that used a rental scanner for securing their safe, then JB could hack into the LTSA database (or place key logging software/hardware on a computer that LTSA accessed their databases with to get passwords etc), download a copy of the iris print, a little modification and bingo into the bank (or wherever). Interesting Cheers Liam	Guest (0)
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