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Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Researchers new side channel attack can reproduce partial fingerprints to enable attacks
Researchers claim they can successfully attack up to 27.9% of partial fingerprints.
The attack leverages the sound characteristics of a user’s finger swiping on a touchscreen to extract fingerprint pattern features. Any chatty app where users carelessly perform swiping actions on the screen while the device mic is live. There is some complicated science behind the inner workings of PrintListener, but if you have read the above, you will already have a good idea about what the researchers did to refine their AFIS attacks.
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