Recently, Vkansee fooled the iPhone’s Touch ID security with the help of their own biometric technology and some Play-Doh, proving that fingerprint readers of 500dpi aren’t secure enough to lock your device. Two geniuses from Michigan State University has tricked fingerprint sensors of smartphones, not with Play-Doh, but with the help of a regular inkjet printer.
Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain, who are from the university’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, have developed a way to imitate fingerprints. The lads claim that the process can be completed in 15 minutes or less. The method requires three AgIC silver conductive ink cartridges, a regular black ink cartridge and a special AgIC paper with the help of a normal inkjet printer. They claim that an owner’s fingerprint, even from a stolen phone, can be retrieved and scanned at 300dpi. The fingerprint is then printed on the glossy side of the AgIC paper and cut out to be placed on the smartphone’s fingerprint reader.
Both the researchers have tried their luck on Samsung and Huawei smartphones, namely, the Galaxy S6 and Honor 7. According to them, the S6 was easier to crack into whereas the Honor 7 took a few more tries before succeeding. The worry is that hackers will use this newly discovered method to hack into fingerprint guarded phones. First, Play Doh, and now some printing paper. Our devices are never secure, are they? A brief video of the process can be found here Let us know your thoughts below!
Source: Softpedia
