Hackers Publish German Minister's Fingerprint

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"To demonstrate why using fingerprints to secure passports is a bad idea, the German hacker group Chaos Computer Club 
has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's interior minister.

According to CCC, the print of Schauble's index finger was lifted from a water glass that he used during a panel 
discussion that he participated in last year at a German university.
CCC published the print on a piece of plastic inside 4,000 copies of its magazine Die Datenschleuder that readers can 
use to impersonate the minister to biometric readers."
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More at
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/hackers-publish.html
 
Juha-Matti
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