Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor defeated by a $450 3D printer

Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor defeated by a $450 3D printer

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/samsung-galaxy-s10-fingerprint-sensor-defeated-by-a-450-3d-printer/

This year in the world of smartphone fingerprint sensors, Qualcomm's ultrasonic in-display fingerprint reader, the 3D Sonic Sensor, is expected to get widespread adoption. The first phone with the new sensor, the Samsung Galaxy S10, has been in the wild for about a few weeks now, and users are already figuring out ways to defeat it.

Imgur user "darkshark" presents a pretty convincing way to thwart the sensor: take a picture of a fingerprint off of an object like a wine glass, add some depth to it in 3D editing software, and then print it out on a 3D printer. Specifically, darkshark used the Anycubic Photon 3D printer, a resin stereolithography printer that can be had for under $450. (You could buy two of these for the cost of a Galaxy S10+!) A video in the Imgur post shows the S10 unlocking with the printed finger facsimile, which looks a bit like a glass microscope slide.

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