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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by draugadrotten on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:56AM (#14400250)
Spoofing this eye is significantly easier than spoofing a fingerprint, because modern fingerprint technology detect if a fingerprint is "alive" by looking at sweat pores, pulse, veins under the skin and other features of a living finger.
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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by rennir on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:46PM (#14404011)
CCC reported that they managed to bypass Apple's Touch ID in 2013, so it doesn't really seem like one is easier than the other.
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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by draugadrotten on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:41PM (#14404530)
AppleID from 2013 may not have included all the features of AppleID in 2017.
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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by dingo_bat on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:17AM (#14400318)
But do phones check for all those markers?
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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by draugadrotten on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:20AM (#14401366)
Well, maybe. Usually flagship phones gets the best (most expensive) chips. Budget phones gets knock-offs.

It depends on which fingerprint hw/sw the phone is using. There are about 4 large players in the phone fingerprint chip space that have 90 percent of the market. Fingerprinting is heavily patented so all four vendors have their pros and cons. A few dozen small players competing about 10 percent of the market. They probably don't do much of it.

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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by Jonnax on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:32AM (#14401503)
Do you know where I could read more about the ways fingerprint scanner detect that it's a human finger?

Sounds pretty fascinating.

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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by draugadrotten on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:31PM (#14404436)
Just do an internet search for "fingerprint liveness detection". Google Scholar has enough reading for a night or two.
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