Smartphone Fingerprint Sensor Fooled By A Printer With Conductive Ink

 The researchers, Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain from the University of MI department of computer science and engineering, published their findings last month and demonstrated the fingerprint spoofing in a short video. The perceived notion is that this type of biometric safeguard provides a superior means of security due to the unique patterns of everyone’s fingers, but a new study and experiment conducted by researchers at Michigan State University shows that fingerprint scanning can be thwarted with a simple inkjet printer.

 Aha.  I knew this was coming. 

A finger print is essentially a password you cannot change , and now that it can be faked, cheaply , all those finger print scanner phones are now junk.  

Oh they'll figure out how to block this attempt , and then another will come, and they'll figure out how to block that. But in the back and forth battle , there's a lot of phones out there that are not secure , despite requiring your finger print to unlock. 

Think about a phone that's six months old , and they figured out how to hack the scanner. If you value security , you must ditch it.  And that's pricy.