Hacker gets fingerprints from photos – Diario El País

Jan Krissler The German hacker known as “starbug” presented a new technique to undermine the use of biometrics (fingerprint identification) private and secure method, showing that you can get the fingerprint of a person to look at a picture of his hand.

The presentation was made in Hamburg, Germany, in the context of Chaos Communication Congress . Although already published other methods for obtaining fingerprints, usually required to have a headdress user object (such as a phone) to get an impression of the mark.

This type of mechanisms behind many modern phones like the latest iPhone created by mobile technology giant Apple.

The method presented by Krissler to capture the traces is totally remote and timeless. To show how this works, won the fingerprint

of the minister of defense of Germany, Ursula von der Leyen, based on a series of photos of her taken in a press conference.

The footprint, he said, can be used for identification methods. “After this talk, politicians are likely to use gloves when speaking in public,” Krissler pointed humor.