{"id":15978,"date":"2016-10-07T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2016-10-07T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T23:28:23","slug":"touch-id-is-only-more-convenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/touch-id-is-only-more-convenient\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch ID Is Only More Convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/dec\/30\/hacker-fakes-german-ministers-fingerprints-using-photos-of-her-hands\">Alex Hern<\/a> (in 2014, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexisgallagher\/status\/781874138860232705\">Alexis Gallagher<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/dec\/30\/hacker-fakes-german-ministers-fingerprints-using-photos-of-her-hands\">\n<p>A speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress, an annual meeting of hackers in Germany, demonstrated his method for faking fingerprints using only a few high-definition photographs of his target, German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Krissler, known in hacker circles as Starbug, used commercial software called VeriFinger and several close-range photos of von der Leyen, including one gleaned from a press release issued by her own office and another he took himself from three meters away, to reverse-engineer the fingerprint.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-10-07): See this Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosyna\/status\/784498290830118912\">conversation<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Hern (in 2014, via Alexis Gallagher): A speaker at the Chaos Communication Congress, an annual meeting of hackers in Germany, demonstrated his method for faking fingerprints using only a few high-definition photographs of his target, German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen. Jan Krissler, known in hacker circles as Starbug, used commercial software called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,981,48,573],"class_list":["post-15978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-passwords","tag-security","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15992,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions\/15992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}