Fooling Fingerprint Readers With $10 Gummi Fingers
Apparently, you don’t even need to cut off someone else’s finger to fool one of those high-tech fingerprint scanners–fingertip copies made of gelatin will do the job. Japanese cryptographer Tsutomu Matsumoto was able to reliably fool eleven different commercially available fingertip scanners using $10 worth of readily available materials. He was even able to use fingerprints to make gummi fingers that fooled the readers. Oops.