How secure is scanning fingerprints?
Bharat Kumar Chennai , July 4 WHEN James Bond faked fingerprints to prove he is someone else (Peter Frank) in the 1971 Bond movie, “Diamonds are forever,” you probably thought that this was another of Bond’s futuristic balderdash. Sure – – it might have been futuristic then. But 33 years later, it is possible. And obviously, it is rendering fingerprint-based access systems unreliable. Mr Robert Raja debunks the use of fingerprints to authorise access, especially when there is no human monitoring this activity. He has a reason for this. Odyssey Technologies, the company of which he is Managing Director conducted an experiment to prove that fingerprint-based systems were not always reliable. Using materials such as China clay and adhesives, Mr Raja’s team was able to successfully duplicate fingerprints. The cost, he says, amounted to less than Rs 50 per duplicate fingerprint. Odyssey provides solutions for secure transfer of data within and between companies. The inspiration for the fing
