Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
by seandougall on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:08PM
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"Class/type similarity" means that twins are likely to, say, both have whorls on their right index fingers, but doesn't mean they'll have the same pattern of ridges. So for the sake of biometrics, that doesn't make them more similar than two random people.
Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
by throwaway744678 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:01AM
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I stand corrected!
Time to switch to a good old PIN if you have an (evil) twin, then!
That’s not accurate. Family members have more similarity in their prints than among random people, twins even more similarity, and identical yet more.
I can’t immediately find authoritative references for family and fraternal twins, but here’s a reference for identical twins:
“Identical twins have the same chromosomes and similar physical characteristics and, therefore, they have a high class/type similarity in their fingerprints.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338710/