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Microchips to replace humans in drug testing
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Digital iris that fools biometric scanners
At the recently held Black eat Security Conference by academics in Spain and the US, a new technique of recreating iris images using the digital codes that are stored in databases and used by iris- recognition systems to identify people was shown. Interestingly, the replica images could even trick the commercially graded iris-recognition systems.
“The idea is to generate the iris image, and once you have the image you can actually print it and show it to the recognition system, and it will say ‘okay, this is the (right) guy,’” says Javier Galbally, who conducted the research with colleagues at the Biometric Recognition Group-ATVS, at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and researchers at West Virginia University.
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