Play-Doh 9, Finger-print scanners 1

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

IT <http://it.slashdot.org/> : Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh 
Posted by ScuttleMonkey <http://slashdot.org/~ScuttleMonkey/>  on Monday
December 12, @03:35AM
from the homer-says-doh dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=172> Security 
* * Beatles-Beatles <http://george-harrison.info/>  writes to tell us
YubaNet is reporting that in recent tests by Stephanie C Schuckers, an
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkston
University, she has shown that, among other things, biometric security
measures were fooled 90% of
<http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_28878.shtml> the time by
simple attacks like Play-Doh molds. From the article: "Schuckers' biometric
research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of
Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. She is currently assessing
spoofing vulnerability in fingerprint scanners and designing methods to
correct for these as part of a $3.1 million interdisciplinary research
project funded through the NSF." 

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