I was reading this blog, where they had this post titled Switch Fingerprints To Trick Hi-Tech Cops which gave details of an incident that actually made me think about how insecure our biometric security techniques are.
The post gave details of an incident to testify that. A lady named Lin Ring was deported from Japan named Lin Ring was deported from Japan in the year 2007. To be allowed tarvel, Lin Ring very ingeniously got her finger prints hacked - she got the left finger print to right, and the right to left. That was smart. However, that din’t help work. Immigration officers suspected the scars on Lin Ring’s fingers and got into action. Needless to mention , what happened next.
The news says Lin had got her surgery done at a private clinic after paying about 9000 pounds ($ 14600). Good money, I would say, but not good enough to escape the scars. Lin Ring had smartly worked her way out, but those faded scars were enough to get the officers suspect her.
The iris recognition (it is a method of biometric recognition which uses an individual’s iris pattern. Iris recognition makes use of camera technology) system was probably an outcome of such crimes. And this system (iris recognition) is not smart hackers to hack}. But then it has other disadvantages to it like, poor picture quality, effective only from a very close distance, and will take good time to reach all security places as the investment that goes into setting up the entire system is very high.
Also, commercial iris recognition systems can be fooled easily by giving them an accurate picture of the face and not the real face that needs to be tested.
Having said that, iris recognition if carried out everywhere can really reduce crime rate.
Tags: biometric security, fingerprints switch, iris recognition, security
