3D printers could replicate your fingerprints to help unlock phones – even after you’re dead
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on July 22, 2016
at 7:38 am
Fusion reports that police officers contacted Michigan State University professor Anil Jain recently to recreate a dead man’s fingers using a 3D printer, so they could unlock his phone and sift through its content for clues. Details are scare because the investigation is still underway. But Jain said that the deceased person in question was the victim in a murder case, not the attacker. Law enforcement officials had his fingerprints on file as he was arrested in a previous incident, and handed those over to Jain for replication. The victim’s phone hasn’t yet been unlocked – Jain has created replicas…
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