Arts&Crafts: bypass a fingerprint scanner with glue and tinfoil

[LutherBlisset]

@SeamusBellamy

Now, before anyone goes and loses their minds over this hack, it’s important to note that in order for it to work, a digital interloper would need to get hold of the fingerprint belonging to the handset’s owner in order to copy it.

May I give you back the sense of dread you have been feeling and suggest you’ll have a look at the work of the CCC?

Some starters:
2008:

CCC publiziert die Fingerabdrücke von Wolfgang Schäuble [Update]

Sorry, in German. Google Translate is your friend, since the Alta Vista BabelFish lost contact to our brainwaves.

2013:
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

2014:

Hacker fakes German minister's fingerprints using photos of her hands

There’s more.

I’m using my fingerprints hundred of times a day as an ID, BTW.