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Drohnenangriff in Afghanistan, der 15 Zivilisten tötetLiebe, Update 2016

Starbug hat ein funktionierendes Fingerabdruck-Mockup aus Fotos von von der Leyens Fingern hergestellt

It’s an old cliché of security researchers: fingerprints might appear more secure than passwords. But if your password gets stolen, you can change it to a new one; what happens when your fingerprint gets copied?

That’s no longer an abstract fear: a speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress, an annual meeting of hackers in Germany, demonstrated his method for faking fingerprints using only a few high-definition photographs of his target, German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen.

Wann lernen es die Leute endlich? Fingerabrücke sind Login-Namen, aber sicher keine Passwörter.

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