Hackers in China can steal fingerprints from selfie

Chinese people love to do Self, his fingers in a scissors. It turns outHackers can steal from such photographs fingerprints and use them maliciously. This was told the vice president of the Shanghai Trade Association Information Security Zhang Wei.

According to Wei, hackers can increase the selfie and make them clearer. If the photo was taken from a distance of one and a half meters, the stamp can be copied completely. If, during the shooting finger was three meters away from the lens, then an attacker could get half the required data. Then you can open door locks, make payments and use other systems in which the victim is registered fingerprint.

Tsinghua University Professor Feng Tszyantszyan, which deals with the fingerprint identification, believes that such a threat does exist. He advised the users to check the clarity of the fingers on selfie before you publish them to social networks.

Film the fingerprint for some people it is impossible because of problems with the skin. But if the distance, shooting angle, focus settings, and lighting come together perfectly, it will be a clear imprint.

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Tszyantszyan Feng, Professor of Tsinghua University

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