Hacker Club Publishes German Official's Fingerprint 253
A number of readers let us know about the Chaos Computer Club's latest caper: they published the fingerprint of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble (link is to a Google translation of the German original). The club has been active in opposition to Germany's increasing push to use biometrics in, for example, e-passports. Someone friendly to the club's aims captured Schäuble's fingerprint from a glass he drank from at a panel discussion. The club published 4,000 copies of their magazine Die Datenschleuder including a plastic foil reproducing the minister's fingerprint — ready to glue to someone else's finger to provide a false biometric reading. The CCC has a page on their site detailing how to make such a fake fingerprint. The article says a ministry spokesman alluded to possible legal action against the club.
haha (Score:1, Informative)
Re:couldn't possibly have negative consequences (Score:5, Informative)
Since the Home Secretary stated, that storing fingerprints is no privacy concern, he would be hard pressed to explain his stance.
even worse (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Has anyone tried this on a fingerprint reader? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Has anyone tried this on a fingerprint reader? (Score:5, Informative)
As a matter of fact, Yes. [slashdot.org]
Yes, fingerprint readers are easily screwed. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Has anyone tried this on a fingerprint reader? (Score:5, Informative)
The high-end, ridicilously expensive fingerprint readers are a lot harder to crack though; But I wouldn't say uncrackable.
Re:Has anyone tried this on a fingerprint reader? (Score:4, Informative)
Do you really get a good enough copy? How hard is it? (After all, any security can be broken somehow. So an essential aspect is the "cost" of breaking the security)
Re:In future news... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Good for them (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Respect, respect maan! (Score:4, Informative)
China is a pathetically low standard to compare to.
Wait, godwin is that you???
You're a moron.