On 01/22/2011 01:05 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
[...] a company has developed a prototype of a device that can scan
fingerprints from up to two meters away, an approach that could prove
especially useful at security checkpoints in places like Iraq and
Afghanistan.
... or for anyone who wants to steal your biometric credentials.
Reminds me of this great hack:
Laxton, Wang, Savage - Reconsidering Physical Key Secrecy:
Teleduplication via Optical Decoding
http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kai/pubs/laxton_ccs08.pdf
What is a fingerprint but a relatively static 2-D key?
- Marsh
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