Biometric ID thieves have invented a ruthless way to steal your ID, they just chop off the finger of the person whose ID they want to steal.
The fingerprint scanner is highly safe to protect your belongings but not safe enough for your fingers.
Ina similar incident there were Malaysian crooks who chopped of a man’s finger to steal hi S-Class Mercedes. Biometric is taking this issue seriously and developing a new technique which can detect that the finger being scanned is dead or alive.
Francois Mainguet, chief scientist of fingerprint biometrics at Atmel-France said that it isn’t yet possible to detect liveliness in a finger and even if it was this would not provide much of security.
All such techniques to detect liveliness in a finger can easily be forged. Thus think about your fingers before you opt for Biometric security.
via: theregister
