Clever people can easily fool most standard biometrics

Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by javacool, Jun 14, 2002.

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  1. javacool

    javacool BrightFort Moderator

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    Researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institute in Darmstadt, Germany set out to see if they could fool new iris, face, and finger-print scanning systems - surprisingly, it did not take much effort to bypass all of these new technologies.

    Full article available here: http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content.cfm?articleid=1377.

    If you do decide to implement biometrics for business use, you may want to think twice, or at least do some more research on how to rectify these issues.

    -javacool
     
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