gHacks technology news » chaos computer club http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 German interior minister’s fingerprint replicated http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/30/german-interior-ministers-fingerprint-replicated/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/30/german-interior-ministers-fingerprint-replicated/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:48:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3658 What’s a good way of catching the attention of someone who is advocating the use of biometrics? German interior minister Wolfgang Schäuble is pushing biometrics and data collection in Germany all for the sake of security and the fight against terrorism.

The Chaos Computer Club, a renowned and popular club of hackers and privacy advocates, decided to let the minister taste some of his own medicine by replicating the fingerprint of the minister and publishing that fingerprint in their magazine.

The fingerprint was available as a print in the magazine and on transparency slide ready to be put on the fingers of the readers of it. The sample was apparently taken from a glass that Schäuble was drinking at a panel discussion in Berlin.

The club also published a step by step instruction on how they managed to replicate the fingerprints. The process itself requires only a handful of common materials, a computer and laser printer, nothing that can’t be acquired in a regular tools store.

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