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- ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60A digg with the full article on a single page, and no advertisements? Preposterous.
- m0bitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58Because you always want to keep a backup of your fingerprint.
- Xnus980w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34alternative mafia approach: cut the finger off.
- jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Hey... This is pretty handy.
- killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Thank you Adblock plus w/ Filterset.G updater
- jonahan52, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Didn't they do this on MythBusters?
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15*ba dum dum tiss*
- noeljohnhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13wtf.
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Mythbusters even got it to work with a photocopier.
- BobbyShaftoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Demonstrating once again that biometrics are for suckers!
You want to make sure your safety deposit box is secure? Have it extract a little bit of your DNA from your rectum. - cam0man, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8did you read the article? You put the bogus fingerprint on top of your own fingertip, as long as YOU have a heartbeat, the scanner will acknowledge it. If you don't have a heartbeat, you've probably got bigger concerns than making phony fingerprints...
- zip22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8yeah
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZncdgwjQxm0 - ronnknee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dumb and dumber.
- flashpitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It also reminds me of what Nicholas Cage did in the movie National Treasure.
- serebreal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I've done fairly extensive research into this in a graduate class I was in - using a gelatin solid mix for the 'fake fingerprint', we were able to fool optical fingerprint readers about 97% of the time, and capacitance-based readers on occasion. Even the new-gen 'hack proof' optical readers could be fooled 97% of the time.
- GrimReeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes when they were testing the security of a biometric fingerprint door lock they used these I think. Among others.
- ray901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why is he being dugg down - that was classic. Virtual pint to you Bobby.
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3KRose did this a long time ago on TSS. They did the "gummy bear and spoon" method
- coacethylene, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4now i can put (incriminate someone) my plan to practice
thanks!!!! - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://www.duggmirror.com/
http://duggmirror.com/mods/How_to_Fake_Fingerprints_2/
for those, like me, blocked from this site at work. - ruggerkets15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are now grounds for a 'perfect crime'.
- mtyoung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The perfect use for this would be the new vending machines that use thumb prints to access a prepaid account. Mooch off of the big junk food junkies at work.
http://www.coryarthus.com/news/151/ - Darkster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2More about the ccc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club
- symtic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Never mind what I said..
- tangerine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Due to a high childhood fever that lasted over a week,
my fingertips peeled
and peeled
and peeled.
To this day, I do not have complete fingerprints.
My finger pads are mostly smooth
and lightly sprinkled with ridges around the edges. - Grig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh, wouldn't it be a LOT easier to just use Silly Putty to make a mold of a fingerprint?
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stop watching CSI. Even if some of the things they do are possible, real police cases will almost never receive a forensic detective's assistance.
- GrowGrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Plastic surgeons will now offer "change your fingerprints". It will be a simple self-graft, cutting pieces of one finger and putting them in other.
Also, "fancy fingerprints", with art or advertising in them. - fatherspud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From personal experience, high security biometrics use full hand scans, pulse, temperate and sometimes a false floor that also weighs the person. Not to mention a personal pin. As far as the idiots who use single print scanners....
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no wonder he's gotta fake his fingerprints, having to shoplift to pay his hosting bills...
- Ringwurm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I could think of some very fun.....uses.....for this article....
- FRuGFoREST, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well.. I suppose that would work for removing any past records of your fingerprints. However, you've now created new unique scarred fingerprints for all future crimes. :)
- phenolholic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1better idea, get rid of your fingerprints. soak your finger in a dilute solution of hydroxide, namely lye (sodium hydroxide). fingerprints gone for about 20 minutes, enough time to kill the ex-wife.
- CitizenX10, on 01/30/2008, -0/+0Dang, and I just went out and bought me a brand new fingerprint garage door keypad. I gotta try this on mine. Anybody had any luck with this fingerprint reader?
http://www.tdsupplies.com/keypads.html - unknownsoldierX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4**Looks at a pair of glasses.** - "Hmm. It appears to be some kind of ocular device."
Nick Cage, you *****. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wrong, nothings impenetrable.
- Niro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3looks kinda like when i used to play with glue at school ! just let it dry in my hadn and used to peel it off it really looks the same, and of course it was just glue that i used not all the stuff on that site !!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL, you have put some thought into this I see.
Better to join a "wife swap" club........ - lynmikel, on 11/20/2007, -0/+0i am interested in this topic
- ronnknee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Mm why don't you skip to the last few steps cause presumably someone's gonna doing something illegal with the new prints. Might as well just put glue on your fingers like in figure 12.
- FRuGFoREST, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Didn't CSI (original Las Vegas, 1st season?) have an episode where a guy made a rubber case of his arm/hand for a halloween 'hand piece'... then had a gazillion copies made so couldn't be proven to be his specific ones?
And I think also CSI Miami had an episode where the 'evil guy' transfered fingerprints from a wine-glass and framed "H". Simplely by using some tin-foil, and hot ironed it onto a wooden handled knife? (I think there were a few other steps involved, but it sounded straight forward 'in theory).
Or have I been watching too much CSI to really believe everything I see on TV ? :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Thanks a lot you idiot! I'd almost forgotten about that train wreck of a movie, and now you have to go and open up the wound again!
- nakani, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0This would be a prime example of low-tech solutions to beat high-tech from yesterday's new army game article. But no, the army's new high-tech network is impenetrable...
- Hypersapien, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I predicted this a year ago
http://digg.com/tech_news/Pay_for_Your_Food_with_the_Touch_of_Your_Finger - krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -7/+2if the *AAs ran the government, there'd be a tax on elmer's, or elmer's would be illegal entirely, because there is no such thing as fair use!
- spyd3rweb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0this article could be used for terroristic purposes, expect black helicopters... 3...2..1... now
- symtic, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Scanners with heartbeat recognition, problem solve.
- LucianSolaris, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6I never see ads anyway...
- jocnnor, on 10/12/2007, -20/+5I think what you meant to say was:
Step 1: Find Albino
Step 2: Set albino in sun for hours
Step 3: Profit!!
....or something like that. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -28/+5Step 1: Find Albino
Step 2: Set albino in sun for hours
Step 3: Push fingers into albino's sun burned skin
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