faking fingerpints

Can Fingerprints Be Faked?

Winnipeg fingerprints - James Bond

Thanks to the smartphone, fingerprinting technology has become a mainstream security feature. Despite this, the novelty of duplicating someone’s fingerprints to defeat security has raised a question in our office: “Can you copy someone’s fingerprints and use them to defeat bio-metric security?” Immediately after asking the question, the classic James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever came…