in good order now in Hamburg , Germany , the great European cyber-terrorist association , the Chaos Computer Club ( CCC ) , is retain its thirty-first annual congress that ’s a four - day fest of all things hacking . Other thanhaving a pretty rad name , CCC is well - known for detail all the crazy ( and sometimes scary ) dirt they can do . They ’ve just added another one to the list .
On Saturday , surety researcher and biometry expert Jan Krissler , known as Starbug , elaborated inan hour - farsighted presentation ( German)how he recreated German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen ’s fingerprints using only a “ received pic television camera ” and in public useable software system calledVeriFinger .
After obtain a high - Re mental image of von der Leyen ’s ovolo during a imperativeness group discussion , and guarantee other pic exact from different angles , Krissler was capable to reconstruct an accurate thumbprint using VeriFinger . CCC saysthe recreation can fool fingermark - base security system .
AsVentureBeat level out , this does n’t completely denounce biometrics as a authentic form of security , but it does show a pretty big hole that can be exploited and really only strain that fingerprint security , Touch ID or otherwise , should only be one stratum to your secure digital life .
Regardless , Krissler does seem to have at least some advice for our reality ’s leaders — wear out gloves .
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