The Chaos Computer Club, in an inspired hack to draw attention to some of the idiocies of biometric IDs, lifted the fingerprint of the German Interior Minister
they then published it, in their newsletter, on a plastic film for use as fake biometric on an ID scanner.
With instruction on how to do it with any set of lifter fingerprints, of course.
h/t y-ranter
read the rest of the y-ranter on some other shenaningans, including the underage arms supplier for the Pentagon, and the Mahdi army acquiring some Russian SAMs
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