German group of hackers that goes by the name 'Chaos Computer Club' aka
CCC posted a video on Youtube (see below) showing how easy it is to
break the security offered by the fingerprint scanner.
Frank Rieger, the author of the post says that It's just a scanner with higher resolution than the existing ones. The
hackers took a photograph of the authenticated user at about 2400 dpi.
The photograph was then cleaned up and the printed on a transparent
sheet using thick toner settings at 1200 dpi. Finally, pink latex milk
or white wood-glue was smeared into the pattern created by the toner on
the sheet. The sheet was then breathed on to make it a bit moist; to
mimic the real finger and was placed on the sensor area.
News from:CCC.de
News from:CCC.de
