Fingerprints person can be "removed" from your digital photos

However, this is only possible if the fingers on the photo shows a man whose prints are scheduled to receive. Optimal conditions for the task getting fingerprints with photos is the presence of two or three photos, where human fingers can be seen from different angles.

Representatives Chaos Computer Club , one of the largest associations of hackers for information security professionals, заявили such a possibility 31 annual meeting of the members of his organization. The meeting was held in Hamburg, Germany. The speaker, who presented the technology of obtaining fingerprints, stated, inter alia, that he was able to get so fingerprints German Defence Minister Ursula von der Lyayen.

Pictures from which you can "remove" fingerprints can not be of very high quality. To use the new technology enough pictures taken using an ordinary digital camera.

One of the tools we've been using speakers, is the application VeriFinger . A source images, which were "removed" prints, photos began with the October conference, which advocated the German Minister of Defense.

According to the creators of technology, a method which allows to obtain fingerprints from the pictures, it is very simple. As mentioned above, the condition of the task is to have photos where there is human fingers, taken from different angles.

So far, the technology is applicable little in reality, especially in relation to ordinary people, not the politicians. Last may have to act gloves, if they do not want their fingerprints were in open access.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/243671/