How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

Re:How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes by crazygringo on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:58PM (#28282512)

I'm pretty sure I've seen sci-fi movies where they get around this with a fake layer of skin applied and engineered/stolen blood with the desired DNA.

Biometrics are never perfect. Sometimes they can be forged (even something as simple as a printout of a human face looking in a camera), other times you take advantage of a tech vulnerability to feed the desired biometric data in directly without needing to produce anything physical at all.

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Re:How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes by astura on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:45PM (#28284595)

This sort of thing actually happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schneeberger

>John Schneeberger (born 1961) is a North Rhodesian-born former physician who drugged and raped one of his female patients and also his stepdaughter while a physician in Canada. For years, he evaded arrest by implanting a fake blood sample inside a plastic tube in his arm, which confounded DNA test results.

>During his 1999 trial, Schneeberger revealed the method he used to foil the DNA tests. He implanted a 15 cm Penrose drain filled with another man's blood and anticoagulants in his arm.[5] During tests, he tricked the laboratory technician into taking the blood sample from the place the tube was planted.

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Re:How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes by ummonk on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:02AM (#28284963)

Damn. Off topic but once again I'm reminded of how ridiculously lenient most western countries (aside from the US) are towards violent criminals.

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