Hackers now use online photos to steal your fingerprints.

[ShootSpeeders]

I've never put a pic of myself on the internet. People are idiots.

Prison Planet.com Don t Wave Hacker Uses Online Photos to Replicate Fingerprints Bypass Biometric Security

dec 31 2014
German hacker Jan Krissler, who operates under the handle Starbug, has demonstrated that a simple photograph posted online can be used to recreate your fingerprint using commonly available imaging software.

One expert has recreated the fingerprints of Germany’s Minister of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen, using just a photo of her.

The security researcher known as Starbug, used publicly available software called VeriFinger with photos of the finger taken from different angles.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

If some stranger takes a pic of you, you need to confiscate their camera.

 

[waltky]

Granny can tell someone's future by lookin' at dey's fingers...

OPM Hackers Took 5.6 Million Sets of Fingerprints
September 24, 2015 - Hackers who stole personnel data on millions of U.S. federal employees got away with more fingerprint images than originally thought, according to the government agency hit by the massive cyber attack.

In a statement Wednesday, the Office of Personnel Management said further investigation revealed that 5.6 million fingerprint records were stolen in the attack, or more than five times as many as first thought. The attack, first discovered earlier this year, affected nearly 22 million current and former federal workers, job applicants, and their families. U.S. investigators have told reporters privately they believe the Chinese government is responsible for the breach, but officials have not yet made this accusation publicly.

President Barack Obama is expected to prominently raise the issue of cyber attacks when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House for a state visit later this week. The Obama administration says cyber attacks, particularly Beijing's alleged theft of commercial secrets, have become a major irritant to U.S.-China ties.

The U.S. national flag is pictured at the Office of Personnel Management building in Washington

However, White House officials have been more reluctant to bring up the OPM attack, which is seen as a more classic case of government espionage. If the Chinese government did carry out the breach, it is not clear how exactly it intends to use the federal worker data. U.S. officials say they have no evidence the information has been abused so far. Federal experts also believe that, "as of now, the ability to misuse fingerprint data is limited," according to the OPM statement. "However, this probability could change over time as technology evolves," it said.

The OPM says an interagency working group, including the FBI, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security, has been set up to "review the potential ways adversaries could misuse fingerprint data now and in the future." The revelation could particularly put at risk any U.S. intelligence officers or contractors working covertly overseas whose prints have been taken. The U.S. has blamed China for a series of high-profile cyber attacks on U.S. government and business entities in recent years. China has strongly denied all the allegations.

OPM Hackers Took 5.6 Million Sets of Fingerprints

 

[Bob Blaylock]

If some stranger takes a pic of you, you need to confiscate their camera.

Only if you want to go to jail for assault and robbery.

The right to photograph nearly everything and anything in public view is protected under the First Amendment. There is no right to not be photographed when you are in public, and there is certainly no right to forcibly deprive another person of his rightful property.

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