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Myth: Fingerprintscanner are secure - busted

Monday, February 26. 2007

Dear collegues (especially those, who got a Tecra M5 recently as their new comporate notebooks), don´t use the fingerprint scanner of any notebooks. Because you give a thief your fingerprints free-of-charge the last time you openened your notebook when you came from lunch. From there, it´s a piece of cake ... as the Mythbusters clearly demonstrate.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English at 12:27 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (2)

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Bye bye Biometrie
Nun gut, unwahrscheinlich, aber mal wieder ein gutes Argument dagegen, alles irgendwie mit Fingerabdruck o.ä. absichern zu wollen. Das ganze schön illustriert durch die Mythbusters... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncdgwjQxm0 [via c0t0d0s0]

Weblog: rant machine?
Tracked: Feb 26, 14:07

Biometrie ist sicher...
... und die Erde ist eine Scheibe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncdgwjQxm0 So the Myth that fingerprint locks can't be foiled is BUSTED. (via Andreas Rauer, Jörg Möllenkamp)

Weblog: Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
Tracked: Feb 26, 14:56

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I think it is a pretty big leap to assume that because myth busters was able to defeat two fingerprint scanners that they can defeat them all. A company called M2SYS (www.m2sys.com) produces a fingerprint scanner that works using radio frequency instead of the normal optical sensor. I've tried beating it with every method I've seen without success.

#1 Kevin on 2007-02-27 16:05 (Reply)

The question is: How many of the easily defeatable are out there, and how many from the harder to defeat ones.

#2 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-02-28 09:18 (Reply)

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