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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by landemva on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:46AM (#29306791)
'what if somebody ...' made SaaS service to upload pictures and overnight ship the fingertip.
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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by qw on Monday November 22, 2021 @10:07AM (#29307048)
It would probably cause a huge media storm. Then the politicians would "fix it" by replacing it with face recognition... (suddenly Face/Off is no longer science fiction)
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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by dylan604 on Monday November 22, 2021 @11:14AM (#29307989)
As long as you can weather the storm, a storm is not the death of shady businesses. The shady facial recognition software that scraped social media for images got some bad press, and then just stayed calm and carried on.

For all of those outraged by the media storm, it is free advertising to those actually interested in the service. All of the pearl clutchers feigning shock and outrage over shady service mean nothing to the company providing the service, as these were never going to be their customers in the first place.

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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by reaperducer on Monday November 22, 2021 @11:05AM (#29307874)
suddenly Face/Off is no longer science fiction

Didn't a woman in France already have a face transplant?

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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by brezelgoring on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:04PM (#29310332)
I don't think it was the type of transplant Face/Off was depicting, hers was very natural-looking but also visibly not a normal face.

I'd like to see Mission: Impossible type transplants, or even masks like the ones they use, for that matter.

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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by wongarsu on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:28PM (#29310593)
The CIA's former Chief of Disguise says they very much exist and are used, with some limitations [1]. Her comment on the 3d printer making the mask: "What if I said we had it".

Of course that's not really surprising when you look at the kind of Halloween masks you can get if you are willing to pay [2]. I imagine if you could special order them to perfectly fit your head they would be very convincing to the casual observer and to software.

1: https://youtu.be/mUqeBMP8nEg?t=673

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y32hdPV0L3k

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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by jcims on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:53AM (#29306878)
Would make for a good Black Mirror episode.
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Re:Fingerprints can be hacked by yeetaccount2 on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:57AM (#29306918)
Sounds like they’d get lots of subpoenas.
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