[ltp] Fingerprint reader and the Bios

[Michele Campeotto]

On 12/15/05, Sean Dague <sean@dague.net> wrote:
> Doesn't really matter though.  With an egg of Play-Doh you can fool the
> thing: http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_28878.shtml

  Not really, the ThinkPad fingerprint reader is a swipe sensor just
to prevent that. Imagine what happens when you sweep a ball of
Play-Doh on something.
  The fooled sensor was just taking pictures of the fingerprint and
analyzing those, not that surprising it's so easily confused. With
that kind of contact sensor you can get a nice fingerprint by just
taking a picture of the sensor surface.


  mic

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