Many new gadgets boast of heightened safety with the addition of Contact ID, and the Samsung Galaxy S10, which debuted final month, is a primary instance. A person of the Imgur image-sharing web site, nevertheless, has challenged that notion.
Imgur person Darkshark mentioned a 3D print of his personal fingerprint fooled the Samsung Galaxy S10’s ultrasonic fingerprint scanner and unlocked the machine. Darkshark posted a video on Thursday displaying the 3D print unlocking the cellphone.
‘This brings up a variety of ethics questions and considerations. There’s nothing stopping me from stealing your fingerprints with out you ever figuring out, then printing gloves along with your fingerprints constructed into them and going and committing against the law,’ Darkshark mentioned in his publish.
Neither Samsung nor Qualcomm, which makes the fingerprint sensor know-how used within the Galaxy S10, have been instantly out there for remark.
Darkshark mentioned it took him three tries to get a print that may work, and the entire course of took him about 13 minutes utilizing his cellphone’s digicam, Photoshop, Autodesk’s 3ds Max laptop graphics program, and an AnyCubic Photon LCD resin printer.