German Government Downplays Biometric ID Card Hack

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-{ Quote: "German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.
The biometric ID cards store a scan of a user's fingerprints along with a six-digit PIN that can be used to digitally sign official forms. Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club (http://www.ccc.de/), however, were able to use home scanners that work with the cards to extract personal information including a fingerprint scan and the six-digit PIN from RFID the chip embedded in the cards.
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German Government Downplays Biometric ID Card Hack - The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/german_id_card_hack/)

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I know from personal experience that lotion helps improve the image capture of fingerprints.

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In the U.S. many jails use fingerprint scanners.
Laser light shines on Optical glass and the lotion helps the ridges to be defined.
Without lotion, the ridges in the image are blurred and is rejected by the OFR.

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It's a good thing we managed to beat off ID cards here in the UK otherwise we would have this kind of crap to look forward to.