Gummi Bear Identity Theft
May 16, 2002 Computers and Software
You can use your fingerprint to buy groceries in College Station, Texas, or so Houston's Leading Misinformation Source told us yesterday. Sadly, it is only today that The Register tells us that they this technology can be defeated 80% of the time in real-world tests. The magic material for making faux fingers good enough to fool the biometrics devices at that incredible rate? Gummi Bears. Maybe there's a reason they're testing it in College Station...
.:Posted by Michael on May 16, 2002 9:52 PM:.
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