A common refrain for those opposed to biometrics is that the identification technology is easy to spoof. It’s widely touted that fingerprint scanners can be fooled by fashioning a simple “gummy finger” from common household products.
These attacks were first revealed in the early 2000’s when Japanese and German researchers successfully fooled fingerprint scanners with relative ease. A lot has changed since then as vendors stepped up efforts to ensure validity of presented biometric samples. But at the same time new attacks have been developed forcing vendors to keep ahead of the curve so systems can’t be fooled.
“Many vendors are pursuing techniques that minimize the vulnerabilities,” says Stephanie Schuckers, associate professor at Clarkson University who studies biometric spoofing.
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