Now, way back in 1892, English scientist Sir Francis Galton published a work laconically entitled Finger Prints. How unique are fingerprints?īefore we get to investigate our Chinese comrades’ work, briefly - some background theory… To begin with, and you may know this, but fingerprints are truly unique and never alter with age. But is it possible to do it somehow more elegantly, without leaving the purely digital world and all its benefits? Turns out, it is: Chinese researchers Yu Chen and Yiling He recently published a study on how to brute-force almost any fingerprint-protected Android smartphone. In a nutshell, all these methods come with lots of real-world hassle. This involves procuring a high-quality image of a finger - and not any finger, mind, but the one registered in the system. Publications on different ways to trick the fingerprint sensor do pop up now and again, but all the suggested methods one way or another boil down to physical imitation of the phone owner’s finger - whether using a silicone pad or conductive ink printout. KasperskyPremium Support and Professional Servicesįingerprint recognition is believed to be a fairly secure authentication method.KasperskyEndpoint Security for Business Advanced.

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