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Title: Fingerprint Theft Just a Shutter Click Away
Post by: HCK on January 07, 2015, 09:00:19 pm
Fingerprint Theft Just a Shutter Click Away

Ever since smartphone makers started incorporating fingerprint scanners as a means of unlocking mobile phones, the Chaos Computer Club has attacked the technology with vigor. Not long after Apple added Touch ID to its iPhones, the German hackers demonstrated how to lift prints from a surface and create a flexible pad containing the print that could be used to break into a phone.

Source: Fingerprint Theft Just a Shutter Click Away (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81548.html?rss=1)