On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:32 -0400, max bianco wrote: > Last time I looked the fingerprint scanners were easy to trick. I > chalked it up to a waste of time to even bother with it. They any > better now? The ones where you plonk a finger down and it scans are were very susceptible to forgeries (someone lifting a print from the scan window and putting a faked print back down again). But I haven't heard anything about outsmarting the ones where you smear your finger down a thin scanning window (you'd need a faked print that'd survive being scraped across the scanner). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
