Hacker
fakes German minister's fingerprints using photos of her hands
Summary:
Jan Krissler, a hacker, also know as Starbug in the hackers circle
has managed to use a high resolution photo, including one from a government
press office, to successfully recreate the fingerprints of Germany’s defence minister
Ursula von der Leyen. In a high profile
stunt in 2013, he spoofed Apple’s Touched sensors within 24 hours of
the release of the iPhone 5S. Using a smudge on the screen of an iPhone, he
printed a dummy finger using wood glue and sprayable graphene, which
successfully unlocked a phone registered to someone else’s thumb.
Key points:
Starbug
agrees, telling Zeit in 2013 that “I consider my password safer than
my fingerprint… My password is in my head, and if I’m careful when typing, I
remain the only one who knows it.”
In my opinion, this highlights how new and digital media has
become so advanced and shows how vunerable these systems are for example the
biometric systems. This is evidence of how new and digital media can affect the
audiences and the news.
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