Hackers announced that they succeeded in replicating fingerprints from fingers in the pictures

"Fingerprint authentication technology" adopted in iPhone etc is a side by side convenience and danger of misuse, various hacking methods are developed. A German hacker has announced that he succeeded in replicating fingerprints from photographs of a politician's "finger" taken at a press conference using commercial software.

BBC News - Politician's fingerprint 'cloned from photos' by hacker
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30623611

Chaos Computer Club can not reproduce fingerprints from people's public photos | VentureBeat | Security | by Emil Protalinski
http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/28/chaos-computer-club-claims-it-can-reproduce-fingerprints-from-peoples-public-photos/

Germany's largest hacker group based in GermanyChaos Computer Club (CCC)Yan Krisler, known as "Starbug", at the 31st Annual Meeting hosted in December 2014 succeeded in replicating "fingerprints" from politician's finger images taken at a press conference We announced.

The state of the presentation can be checked with the following movie.

Gefahren von Kameras für (biometrische) Authentifizierungsverfahren [31c3] von starbug / Jan Krissler - YouTube


Mr. Kristler is a GermanUllzura von Dear RaienFrom a plurality of photographs taken at a press conference by the Minister of Defense, "VeriFingerThe fingerprint was successfully copied using the fingerprint reading software called "Fingerprint Reader".


Mr. Kristler is known for iPhone 5s which adopted the fingerprint authentication sensor "TouchID" to break through the certification with the fingerprints that it immediately replicated the next day after release.

A method to break through iPhone 5s' fingerprint authentication "TouchID" turned out - GIGAZINE


In this case, it was a technique to duplicate the fingerprint from the fingerprints left on the glass surface, but this time it has a big significance where we successfully duplicated fingerprints with a technique that does not require physical contact. Defense Minister Raien 's finger was taken from a distance of 3 meters, and it was a very common camera that was used. In other words, it succeeded in stealing fingerprints without contacting with a general camera and general software.

Incidentally,VentureBeat"It is said that politicians will glove and will come to a press conference in the future" that Mr. Kloster who got interviewed, he said, left a comment.


In 2014,"PleaseBreak.in" to let you know the dangers of posting key photos on SNS etc.Although the site that made it was made, will it be that you have to be careful not to shoot or expose your finger photos easily? ....