Hackers each day go further and actually show that few things are certain in the world of computing . The hacker group known as Chaos Communication Club (CCC) has just demonstrated that it is possible to get the impression of a fingerprint from a photo of the hand.
Jan Krissler , a German member of the organization hacker demonstrated the feat in a conference in Hamburg on December 27. The method is fully remote Krissler and to prove scored the footsteps of the German defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, with only a series of photographs of her at a public event, according to El País Uruguay.
With the images and VeriFinger, public domain software, Krissler, or Starbug as it is also known, proved that for fingerprinting an object that has been touched and is not even necessary by the person, methods that were already well known.
The Chaos Computer Club demonstrated that biometric parameters should not be considered as a form of invulnerable security and drew attention to the latest generation smartphones that are including, as the iPhone 6 and the Samsung Galaxy S5.
The conference where he demonstrated and other IT security issues were discussed is in German, but the site of the CCC can be seen on video with English subtitles, as RedUSERS .
Jan Krissler network belongs to the oldest and largest hackers in Europe, with 31 years of existence . Krissler ended joking that “after this talk, politicians are likely to use gloves when speaking in public.”
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