FBI Get Around Touch ID Security Issues With 3D Printed Fingers
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stranger, here we are talking about the FBI printing fingers. Although it may seem like a crazy concept at first, it is actually not too bad of an idea, it just needs a little work.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stranger, here we are talking about the FBI printing fingers. Although it may seem like a crazy concept at first, it is actually not too bad of an idea, it just needs a little work. One thing that has always been a pain for law enforcement officials is getting into locked iPhones. With the implementation of this new idea of 3D printing fingers, officials are hopeful that it will lead to the capture of more criminals and essentially make the world a better place.
Professor Anil Jain from the Michigan State University, who is an expert in the field of biometric identifiers, has been hired by the FBI to take on this project. Being able to get into a murder victim’s smartphone to look for evidence or clues may mean the difference between catching the killer and letting them run free. As well as taking the victim of the crime’s fingerprints and making 3D printed fingers from them, the team also had to coat the printed product with a thin layer of metallic particles to activate the galvanic sensors found inside fingerprint scanners.
Although the study is still in its early days, this could be revolutionary for law enforcement officials and would almost certainly make a difference in lowering the number of unsolved murder cases. But, the problem they are faced with at the moment is able to produce the fingers in a quick enough time to be of any real use in this situation. Also, with the introduction of this technology to the police and other law enforcement officials it will not be too long after that the criminals of the underworld have their dirty little hands on it, and then we could all be at risk!
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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