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curt15
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In the era of fast 3d printers, what stands in the way of just fashioning a suitable fake finger from the fingerprint?
msbarnett
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Nothing. The 3d printer is overkill. A fingerprint and a pack of gelatin is more than sufficient.
r00fus
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Have you personally done or seen this done this then? Quality of the print production seems pretty important...
berdario
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https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid
http://www.heise.de/video/artikel/iPhone-5s-Touch-ID-hack-in...
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Laser printers are perfectly fine. CCC demoed this a few years back:
https://youtu.be/aGjGzqYgz0c
stcredzero
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Mythbusters did it.
r00fus
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Not on an iPhone.
mikestew
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You might have noticed that ABS plastic doesn't have a lot of similarities with human flesh. That's not to say that it can't be faked, just maybe not with a 3D printer:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/fake-fingerprint-foo...
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