I recently read this article and wanted to share it with you. Things we expect we'd only see on movies do happen in reality!

Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, has successfully done some experiments against eleven commercially available fingerprint biometric systems, and was able to reliably fool all of them. The results are enough to scrap the systems completely, and to send the various fingerprint biometric companies packing.
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There's both a specific and a general moral to take away from this result. Matsumoto is not a professional fake-finger scientist; he's a mathematician. He didn't use expensive equipment or a specialized laboratory. He used $10 of ingredients you could buy, and whipped up his gummy fingers in the equivalent of a home kitchen. And he defeated eleven different commercial fingerprint readers, with both optical and capacitive sensors, and some with "live finger detection" features. (Moistening the gummy finger helps defeat sensors that measure moisture or electrical resistance; it takes some practice to get it right.) If he could do this, then any semi-professional can almost certainly do much much more.
The complete text can be read here, and a presentation on how precisely he did it can be downloaded here.

Damn, what next? Fooling retina scan with a crystal ball? I think no biometric system is foolproof...

Peace always,
<jdenny>