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Police 3D-printed a murder victim's finger to unlock his phone
Police in Michigan have a new tool for unlocking phones: 3D printing. According to a new report from Flash Forward creator Rose Eveleth, law enforcement officers approached a professor at Michigan State earlier this year to reproduce a murder victim’s fingerprint from a prerecorded scan. Once created, the 3D model would be used to create a false fingerprint, which could be used to unlock the phone. Because the investigation is ongoing, details are limited, and it’s unclear whether the technique will be successful.
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Mythbusters did something similar with a gel copy of someone's fingerprint. Bio-metrics, fingers in particular, make terrible passwords; you leave your password on every surface that you touch!