Re:The OPM Data Breach [pdf]
by streptomycin on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:08PM
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The letter they sent me claimed that there is currently no way to create fake fingerprints, so there's nothing to be worried about, 2 years of identity theft monitoring is good enough.
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In what world are they living, where there is "no way to create fake fingerprints"? Of course that is possible. Here is one example: http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.en
It is easily possible to create fake fingerprints that can fool any known finger print scanner. If you know one, that supposedly can't be tricked, please let me know.
I wasn't sure if they were lying or merely incompetent when they said that. Mythbusters has an episode of them defeating fingerprint locks using a print lifted from a glass, and the technique they used was anything but sophisticated.
I'm sure you're very comforted by that addition of the qualifier "currently."
Correlated letter from 2011: "Dear streptomycin, your fingerprint data is currently not stolen!"
They lied to you. But what else is new.
Re:The OPM Data Breach [pdf]
by UlyssesSKrunk on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:40AM
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That was a blatant lie tho.