Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones in biometric systems

You only get one set of fingerprints. If you use this as a master key, and someone else gets a hold of your fingerprints, you&#x27;re vulnerable for the rest of your life.<p>Not very secure.

I used to have stacks of these yellow sticky notes with my password printed on it. I ensured, that whereever I went, I would stick one of them to anything I touched, so I&#x27;d have it ready just in case.<p>Thanks to fingerprint biometrics I can do this now just as well without even having to buy sticky notes.

This seems pretty obvious. Anything static is forageable and hence vulnerable. Bio can add complications (is this fingerprint warm and pulsing?) but ultimately all will be overcome.

What I don&#x27;t like about the abstract is that it does not say what this is good for.<p>This thing is designed to fool ANN and adaptive systems as used in certain kinds of biometrics e.g. pictures.

Hum, about fingerprints as keys to store valuable and personal things. What happens if tomorrow I would suffer a car accident and &#x27;lost&#x27; my key? or have a new scar hiding a part of my key? Would be locked out forever?<p>Or how to explain a machine that will keep asking for my &#x27;real key&#x27;, the concept of a wasp&#x27;s sting for example?