How safe is your biometric data? https://afritechnet..com/2016/07/spoof-fingerprints.html

In 2002, Tsutomu Matsumoto devised a technique to take a photograph of a latent fingerprint (e.g. from a glass) and recreate it using gelatin. The model was said to be good enough to fool biometric scanners 80% the time.

In 2009 Lin Ring paid doctors in China $14,600 to change fingerprints so as to bypass the biometric sensors used in Japan’s airports. Lin had been deported previously. The surgeons swapped the fingerprints from her left and right hands. The ploy worked but was exposed when she attempted to marry a middle-aged Japanese man. Japanese police claim to have uncovered a thriving business in biometric surgery, Lin was the ninth person to have had the surgery.

One of the first smartphones widely available to the public to make use of biometric security hardware was the Apple iPhone 5s. Shortly after its official release The Chaos Computer Club successfully bypassed Apple's much lauded Touch ID fingerprint scanner. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID.
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

The examples above are just a few of the older techniques used to spoof fingerprint and should cast doubt on the narrative that biometric data is inherently more secure.


Possible solution?
See here - https://afritechnet..com/2016/07/spoof-fingerprints.html