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Emmanuel Schalit says biometrics have issues that are often overlooked in the discussion about improved authentication

Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club have just managed to reproduce fingerprints of the German defence minister from high-resolution public photos and they know how to use them on consumer phones' ...

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