Researchers Develop Artificial Fingerprints for Hacking Smartphones
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Researchers at New York University and the Michigan State University recently revealed that they were able to developed artificial fingerprints using machine learning which can be used to unlock a variety of fingerprint-locked devices.
The researchers said that most devices such as phones don’t actually capture entire fingerprints. Rather, only a set of partial prints are kept on the device and only one needs to match when the user unlocks his device.
The team said that their “DeepMasterPrints” can act as a kind of master key which can unlock around one in three fingerprint-locked devices, which is still a considerably large number.
Source: CNBC