The Apple iPhone 5 s TouchID biometric security system was bypassed by a team of Hackers of the Chaos Computer Club, one of the main European organisations of hackers. To reproduce a fake finger, they recovered the fingerprint of the user on a glass.
It took two days to the hackers of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) team to overcome security biometric of Apple, that integrated system the IPhone 5 sec. An imprint of the user of the phone, photographed on a glass surface, was enough to create a false finger capable of unlocking the security TouchID. «The Apple sensor has only a greater resolution than the other sensors. We just needed to increase the resolution of our fake finger", reveals the Starbug hacker in a release on the CCC website.
To reproduce a false fingerprint, the hackers are based on materials of everyday life. "The fingerprint was photographed with a resolution of 2400 dpi. The image is then cleaned, reversed and printed by laser with a resolution of 1200 dpi on a transparent sheet. This engraved leaf mold helps a liquid latex. Once dry, the latex sheet is used to unlock the iPhone, decrypts the hacker team.
This demonstration is designed to warn the manufacturers and users on the limitations of this system of biometric security.
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