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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by nobodyorother on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:49PM (#14403392)
Didn't some group pull a politician's finger print off his dinner glass and then include it as an insert with all the issues of some magazine?

Can't find the reference right now, but somebody's gotta remember this, it was when the UK was considering using biometric data as IDs.

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Re:Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of th... by lorenzhs on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:42PM (#14403959)
That was CCC in 2008. To underscore the inherent problems of biometric authentication, they pulled Wolfgang Schäuble's fingerprints of a dinner glass and published it in their magazine. That issue also included a ready-to-use replica. Schäuble was Germany's interior minister at the time and a strong proponent of biometric data in passports and increased surveillance.

https://www.ccc.de/updates/2008/schaubles-finger (in German)

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