Fake Irises Fool Scanners
We already know you can wear fake irises to fool a scanner into thinking you’re not you, but this is the first fake iris you can use for impersonation: to fool a scanner into thinking you’re someone else.
EDITED TO ADD (8/13): Paper and slides.
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Daugman says the vulnerability in question, which involves using an iterative process to relatively quickly reconstruct a workable iris image from an iris template, is a classic “hill-climbing” attack that is a known vulnerability for all biometrics.”
B. D. Johnson • July 31, 2012 11:14 AM
I was kind hoping it would have been defeated by gummi bears like the fingerprint scanners were.