Sweet bypass for student finger scanner (Kids use Gummi Bears to beat security)

ZDNet ^ | October 27th, 2010 | Darren Pauli

[BuffaloJack]

> Uh, if I read this correctly, they used gelatin, not gummi bears. They just call it that because gummi bears happen to contain gelatin. What a bunch of hyperbole.

Gelatin is actually made from hooves, hide and bone. By composition, gelatin is the same as skin. Korean hookers trying to illegally enter Japan have take it one step further; the use Listerine breath strips. They obtain a safe fingerprint, enhance it with techniques used to make electrical circuit boards, then they have a mold. They then place a Listerine strip on the mold, hit it with a hair dryer, then when it has softened and formed into the impression, they lift it, put it in the Listerine strip pack and do another one. Whenever they need a fingerprint, they moisten their finger, apply a strip and fool the scanner. The Japanese immigration people have arrested a dozen or so of these women over the past year.

[MalPearce]

Gummi Bears?

What are they using?!

Modern biometric chipsets don’t store an image of the print at all, they use a variety of methods to generate a profile of the fingerprint.

The laptop I’m using now, is a bog-standard HP with a built-in reader using an Authentec TouchChip sensor, and I’m pretty sure that can’t be fooled by a Gummi Bear. I’ve also got a rather funky prootype reader which checks for temperature and blood flow in the vessels inside the finger, I’d like to see the Gummi Bear trick fool that reader!

FFS.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Ironic. In 1985, the great Ferris Bueller himself couldn’t bypass the Shermer High Schoo/Ben Stein method of attendance verification. Today, it’s simply gummy bears ...that were in my pocket...want one? They’re warm and soft...

[Hot Tabasco]

After [the reader] lets you in, eat the evidence

That gummy bear you just ate just picked up God knows what from the scanner. You don't know where the previous finger has been or what it was touching..........

[MarkL]

One gummy bear for the entire school!

Mark

[MarkL]

About 8 or 9 years ago, I had to do some work at a local high school. I was shocked to see that all of the students and teachers wearing ID badges. I guess things had gotten to that point due to non-students coming into the school to stir up trouble and sell drugs. But it was still a shock to see.

Mark

[raybbr]

...as a convenient way for students to clock in and out of school during their irregular hours.

I'm guessing you didn't get that far into the article....?

[zeugma]

I want a glove with John Dillenger’s fingerprints on it.

[Anidhyam]

The loopholes in cyber security might be dangerous and can put a bad effect for the growth of business. Businesses need better solutions to protect these fraudulent activities and for that they require better fingerprint time and attendance system. These systems are protected by 3-4 layers of encryption.