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GIVE YOUR BOSS THE FINGER

9th November 2009
By Brendon Abbott for dailystar.co.uk

CHEEKY employees are getting around their bosses by having their fingerprints faked.
Employers are stepping up security measures to make sure their workers aren't a second late by installing fingerprint recognition machines.

But a crafty company in China have found away around the new technology - manufacturing kits to fake the prints.

The silica gel moulds slip over the finger, can be imprinted with anyone's fingerprints and cost £10 online.

It has really taken off in China where companies are switching swipe cards for print recognition to clock on.

One customer Xiao Liu, 38, said: "We're fined £20 every time we're late and I used to ask a friend to punch me in until my bosses switched to fingerprints."

"Now I've just given some copies of my fingerprints to people on the early shift and I'm never late no matter what time I get up."

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09. 11. 09. - 16:00
Giving the boss the finger

Lazy workers are giving bosses' new security measures the finger - by sending off for kits to fake their own fingerprints.

Customers send their prints to an online company in Shandong, eastern China, which for 10 GBP sends back fake fingertips with perfect copies of the dabs.

It means anyone can fool fingerprint security systems just by slipping on the silica gel moulds.

The product has found a massive market in China where companies are scrapping old-fashioned sweep cards for fingerprints to clock on and off.

One customer Xiao Liu, 38, said: "We're fined 20 GBP every time we're late and I used to ask a friend to punch me in until my bosses switched to fingerprints.

"Now I've just given some copies of my fingerprints to people on the early shift and I'm never late no matter what time I get up."

But the technology has massive implications for police and anti-terrorist authorities.

"People can simply steal a set of fingerprints and cause chaos with identity theft," said one expert.
Austrian Times
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It would be interesting to see the quality of these. A coworker and I were playing around with forging fingerprints with clay (for the mold) and accutrans and it was actually really easy to make high quality casts that would be impossible to tell they were forged.
Hopefully criminals don’t get wind of this and use it to throw off the police.

Peter Griffin wrote:. . . . . it was actually really easy to make high quality casts that would be impossible to tell they were forged.
Hopefully criminals don’t get wind of this and use it to throw off the police.

Fingerprint forgery has been a topic of discussion for a long time. See Arthur Conan Doyle "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" (1893). Or check out the book "Fingerprints Can Be Forged" by Alfred Wehde (1924). The truth is that it is still easier to put on a pair of gloves, but in a century of convictions based on fingerprints, criminals haven't even learned that simple trick. I don't think we are in any great danger of wholesale forging of fingerprints.

In my experiments in 1992-94, it was easy to make casts and "forge" fingerprints, but to say it would be "impossible" to tell they were forged is an overstatement. If you used a rubber cast one time on paper, maybe; otherwise, there are clues if you study the process closely enough. ("Detection of Forged and Fabricated Fingerprints." Journal of Forensic Identification, 44(6), Nov/Dec, 1994.)

"Spoofing" (using fake friction ridge detail) to fool a scanner for controlled entry or computer access may be a different matter because we would be dealing with a different class of criminal. There have been isolated incidents in the press, but we will have to wait and see how serious the problem is and whether it can be stopped by using double or triple biometric features (iris scans, facial geometry, etc.) with fingerprints so that they all have to "match" for the system to work.

I agree that it is much easier to put on a pair of gloves and that most criminals still haven't bothered to take advantage of this when committing crimes. I also agree that I don’t see a wave of criminals starting to buy fingerprint casts. However, the more ubiquitous commercial fingerprint casts become the more likely a defense attorney will be able to raise reasonable doubt that his client was set up or that in fact he was.

I have read several articles and reports on fingerprint forgeries (your Pollock being one of them) and I am pretty confident that the cast I created would pass muster. It did not feature any air bubbles or odd features that would lead one to believe it was a forgery. And in a limited sample where you only had one print to evaluate I would bet it would work.

Come to think about it, that would be a good experiment (and it is fun to play with the accutrans). I will work on creating a line up of 10 latent prints that may or may not contain 1 or more forged prints and see how everyone does when I post it.

I know...lets have the SCRO bunch take first crack at identifying the forgery in your test. After all, they are the most highly trained and the best of the best, right?!