German defense minister’s fingerprint cloned using just photos
At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Conference in Hamburg Germany, biometrics researcher Starbug, whose real name is Jan Krissler, explained that he used a close-up photo of Ms von der Leyen’s thumb that was taken with a “standard photo camera” at a presentation in October, standing nine feet (3 meters) away from the official along with other pictures of her thumb taken at different angles.
Starbug then used a publicly available software program called VeriFinger with photos of the finger taken from different angles to recreate an accurate thumbprint. According to CCC, this software is good enough to fool fingerprint security systems.
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