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Re:Police asked 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fin... by jeffbush on Thursday July 21, 2016 @11:05PM (#12141482)
Worth noting that Mythbusters did an experiment with spoofing fingerprint scanners. They didn't use a 3D printer, but etched a copper plate. It looks like the fingerprint reader technology is not the same, but it seems like the ballistics gel version they made might have similar capacitance to a human finger and could work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hji3kp_i9k

tldw: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-da...

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Re:Police asked 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fin... by urbanarson on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:21AM (#12143097)
This was several years ago when fingerprint scanners were cameras under glass, they are a lot more sophisticated now and harder to fool. These techniques will get you no where on a current Apple device.
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Re:Police asked 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fin... by tdy721 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @11:31PM (#12141553)
IIRC, they also had success on some readers with just a photocopy of a dusted print, with a warm/conductive finger behind the paper.
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