“New research being released this week at the Black Hat security conference: a way to recreate iris images that match digital iris codes that are stored in databases and used by iris-recognition systems to identify people. The replica images, they say, can trick commercial iris-recognition systems into believing they’re real images and could help someone thwart identification at border crossings or gain entry to secure facilities protected by biometric systems.” [Security theater, as always. So what are biometrics really about?]
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/reverse-engineering-iris-scans/all/
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