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Chaos Computer Club Bypasses iPhone 5 TouchID

Germany’s Chaos Computer Club has bypassed the Biometrics security of Apple’s TouchID using easy everyday means. Just two days after the device went on sale worldwide.

As the group says that their biometric hacking team took a fingerprint of the user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID.

In the post of their site, the group explains that:

In reality, Apple’s sensor has just a higher resolution compared to the sensors so far. So we only needed to ramp up the resolution of our fake”, said the hacker with the nickname Starbug, who performed the critical experiments that led to the successful circumvention of the fingerprint locking. “As we have said now for more than years, fingerprints should not be used to secure anything. You leave them everywhere, and it is far too easy to make fake fingers out of lifted prints.

The Chaos Club details its methods for the fingerprint hack, “First, the fingerprint of the enroled user is photographed with 2400 dpi resolution. The resulting image is then cleaned up, inverted and laser printed with 1200 dpi onto transparent sheet with a thick toner setting. Finally, pink latex milk or white woodglue is smeared into the pattern created by the toner onto the transparent sheet. After it cures, the thin latex sheet is lifted from the sheet, breathed on to make it a tiny bit moist and then placed onto the sensor to unlock the phone,”  the post states, adding that this technique can be used against “the vast majority” of fingerprint scanners.