Your Peace Sign Selfie Might Be Giving Scammers Your Fingerprints

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The peace sign selfie has been a fixture of social media since basically the beginning of social media. Billions of photos, same gesture, nobody thinks twice about it. That might need to change.

Security researchers say the ‘V’ hand gesture, index and middle fingers pointed at the camera, can give scammers enough fingerprint detail to reconstruct biometric data. And they’re not speaking theoretically.

Financial expert Li Chang demonstrated the whole thing on a Chinese workplace reality show in April, using a celebrity’s selfie to show how much fingerprint information is sitting right there in a standard peace sign photo. Oddity Central reported on his findings, which were pretty darn uncomfortable. At close range, under 1.5 meters, there’s a very high probability of fully extracting fingerprint information from a single image. At distances up to 3 meters, about half of a person’s fingerprint data can still be recovered.
That’s where AI comes in, and it’s what makes this more than a theoretical concern. This warning has been circulating since at least 2017, and cameras have only gotten better since.

more at https://www.vice.com/en/article/your-peace-sign-selfie-might-be-giving-scammers-your-fingerprints/

[TBoneTX 49,745]

10 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

At close range, under 1.5 meters, there’s a very high probability of fully extracting fingerprint information from a single image.

Wow.  Good reminder.

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11 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Wow.  Good reminder.

in short, biometrics is now a risk.

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2 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

in short, biometrics is now a risk.

Then we shouldn't let USCIS capture ours.