[ltp] Fingerprint reader and the Bios

Rolf Kutz linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:43:15 +0100


* Quoting Michele Campeotto (micampe@micampe.it):

> 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.

Play-Doh is just an example.

http://www.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.xml

- Rolf