Hi: all:

I_Was thinking about the finger printing technology. I was thinking
that some entrepreneur should be able to form a fake finger that
would
allow an imposter to hack into someone's computer. Here is how it
would work: Y0U lift someone's fingerprint from something that the
person has touched. The company then forms a Rubber finger based on
the lifted print. Now w/ this fake finger, you should be able to log
into that person's computer


what do you think of this idea? Do you think that there would be a
Niche market for this kind of service?


A converse way of asking my question is: Don't you think that finger
scanners on computers would be vulnerable to this type of hacking?
Nobletrader

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:08:54 -0800 (PST), NobleTrader******.com
wrote:

>I_Was thinking about the finger printing technology. I was thinking
>that some entrepreneur should be able to form a fake finger that
>would
>allow an imposter to hack into someone's computer. Here is how it
>would work: Y0U lift someone's fingerprint from something that the
>person has touched. The company then forms a Rubber finger based on
>the lifted print. Now w/ this fake finger, you should be able to log
>into that person's computer

For many types of fingerprint readers this is a viable option.

>what do you think of this idea? Do you think that there would be a
>Niche market for this kind of service?

a) In many areas of the world, selling such a service would be
illegal.
b) Think about the type of client that you attract selling this
service. Do you really want to do 'business' with them :-)

>A converse way of asking my question is: Don't you think that finger
>scanners on computers would be vulnerable to this type of hacking?

They are.
And that is basically the reason that you still don't see a
fingerprint reader on every newly sold PC.

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

The good, secure fingerprint readers can detect that they are dealing
(or not) with live tissue that has blood running through it (in fact,
they can measure the "pulse" of the finger).

This became necessary after some fingerprint equipped atm machines in S.
Africa were scammed by cutting off the fingers of atm users back in the
1990's. Low-end systems may not have such safeguards, but all of the
higher end systems do.


NobleTrader******.com wrote:
> Hi: all:
>
> I_Was thinking about the finger printing technology. I was thinking
> that some entrepreneur should be able to form a fake finger that
> would
> allow an imposter to hack into someone's computer. Here is how it
> would work: Y0U lift someone's fingerprint from something that the
> person has touched. The company then forms a Rubber finger based on
> the lifted print. Now w/ this fake finger, you should be able to log
> into that person's computer
>
>
> what do you think of this idea? Do you think that there would be a
> Niche market for this kind of service?
>
>
> A converse way of asking my question is: Don't you think that finger
> scanners on computers would be vulnerable to this type of hacking?
> Nobletrader
>
>

My name is, Bond......James Bond............and now the music.

<NobleTrader******.com> wrote in message
news:4818bc27-5888-442e-a0e8-dd718fb0c40f@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi: all:
>
> I_Was thinking about the finger printing technology. I was thinking
> that some entrepreneur should be able to form a fake finger that
> would
> allow an imposter to hack into someone's computer. Here is how it
> would work: Y0U lift someone's fingerprint from something that the
> person has touched. The company then forms a Rubber finger based on
> the lifted print. Now w/ this fake finger, you should be able to log
> into that person's computer
>
>
> what do you think of this idea? Do you think that there would be a
> Niche market for this kind of service?
>
>
> A converse way of asking my question is: Don't you think that finger
> scanners on computers would be vulnerable to this type of hacking?
> Nobletrader
>
>

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:47:12 -0500, Barry Watzman
<WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:

>The good, secure fingerprint readers can detect that they are dealing
>(or not) with live tissue that has blood running through it (in fact,
>they can measure the "pulse" of the finger).

Not sufficient :-)
There is a simple way to defeat this. And it is being used :-)

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

On Nov 24, 5:08 pm, NobleTra...******.com wrote:
> Hi: all:
>
> I_Was thinking about the finger printing technology. I was thinking
> that some entrepreneur should be able to form a fake finger that
> would
> allow an imposter to hack into someone's computer. Here is how it
> would work: Y0U lift someone's fingerprint from something that the
> person has touched. The company then forms a Rubber finger based on
> the lifted print. Now w/ this fake finger, you should be able to log
> into that person's computer
>
> what do you think of this idea? Do you think that there would be a
> Niche market for this kind of service?
>
> A converse way of asking my question is: Don't you think that finger
> scanners on computers would be vulnerable to this type of hacking?
> Nobletrader

it's very easy:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,13730,00.asp
I don't see the point - it's adding complication where a password will
do, and it's a new attack vector.