fingerprints – More Tomorrow https://www.moretomorrow.co.uk and other stories Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:12:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Fake Fingerprints https://www.moretomorrow.co.uk/2018/12/04/fake-fingerprints/ https://www.moretomorrow.co.uk/2018/12/04/fake-fingerprints/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:12:22 +0000 https://moretomorrow.co.uk/?p=141 Continue reading Fake Fingerprints]]> A lot of the technology I have is pretty old. I don’t know that I’ll ever go in for anything that gets unlocked with a fingerprint or my face (partly because these things can change).

And then you get stuff like this: Researchers create ‘master key’ fingerprints that can fool biometric databases

Researchers from New York University have created a set of master fingerprint keys that can be used to spoof biometric identification systems.

While the database of fingerprints used by the researchers had a chance of falsely matching with a random fingerprint one out of 1000 times, the master prints they generated had the power to falsely match one out of five times.

Which, like, great.

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